Life in Science Here's how COVID-19 is affecting my first year in graduate school The rapidly and constantly evolving COVID-19 situation has dramatically affected career plans for both early-career faculty [https://www.chronicle.com/article/Covid-19-Crisis-Widens-Divide/248276] and senior graduate students [https://emergency.rice. Zach Zeisler 27 Apr 2020 • 5 min read
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Mentoring Creating mutualism between research and teaching Teaching in academia is often seen as a distraction from research. Teaching takes time, energy, resources and, most importantly, does not produce any papers. In many universities, if you are Guillaume Lobet 27 Jun 2019 • 6 min read
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