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Defining and Finding Your Mentor(s)
Mentoring relationships are particularly important for job transitions. While it’s true that advisors may also provide some of these functions, according to Dr. Beronda Montgomery, the key difference between an advisor and a mentor is the specificity of the advice for you.
Ada K. Hagan, Ph.D.
Write Your Diversity Statement in Four Steps
Below are four steps that you can use to craft a diversity statement. The first three steps will guide the incorporation of three key components to a compelling statement: your background, what drives your commitment to diversity, and how you demonstrate that commitment. The final step provides resources and suggestions to refine your statement for inclusion in your job packet.
Ada K. Hagan, Ph.D.
7 Tips for Improving Pay Equity
Here are seven tips to help you decide your worth on the job market and have a better chance at closing the wage gap.
A Letter to Research Mentors: How to Support Your Trainee’s Non-academic Career Development
Dear Research Mentor, I’m writing to you on behalf of your trainees (postdocs and graduate students) who aren’t interested in a “traditional” academic career; whether they know it yet or not.
Altering the Academic Ecosystem: Graduate Education Reports Propose Critical Reforms
To better understand the consensus of graduate education reforms and move forward in redefining the academic ecosystem, this blog will summarize findings of the two reports, note their strengths, and identify next steps to adapt the future of graduate education in microbiology.
Diversify Digest
A biweekly curation of the latest research on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
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Examining Flint: New research highlights lack of legionella public policy
Why did cases of Legionnaires’ disease spike when the water source was changed for Flint, Michigan? We look at the scientific investigations into the cause, and how these data may influence a case around water safety policies.
Examining Flint: New research highlights lack of legionella public policy
From Poisoning to Pharmacy: A Tale of Two Ergots
Ergotism is a form of poisoning from ingesting grains infected by Claviceps purpurea. Learn how these infected grains have both healed and killed throughout history.
From Poisoning to Pharmacy: A Tale of Two Ergots
How to Train Your T Cell(s): The Hidden World
The prior decades of immunological research developed an array of tools and methods to uncover how our immune system protects against invading microbes. Now, the new wave of immunologists, including Dr. Belkaid, use those tools to uncover how our immune system cooperates with members of our microbiome.
How to Train Your T Cell(s): The Hidden World
If You Give a Baby a Bath, and More Microbial Myths
A followup to the “Microbial Myths” Youtube video that examines what the literature has to say about microwaving sponges, bathing newborns, and using Bunsen burners as a part of aseptic techniques at the bench.
If You Give a Baby a Bath, and More Microbial Myths