Breaking into business

Article Abstract:

The consulting firms recruit PhD students straight from campus, and university licensing offices are keen to put students' scientific expertise to work. Thus, scientists face a common barrier that is presenting themselves not as scientists but as potential businesspeople and therefore need to learn to communicate to strangers, to enable them to look for jobs in the business world.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research Personnel, Business education, Research scientists

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School's in for summer

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The advantages of joining summer internship programs ranging from academic and research institutions to government laboratories to industry campuses are discussed. These summer internships help undergraduates get a chance to try out academia or industry before going to graduate school and graduate students to test out a career before signing the contract.

Evaluation, Internship programs

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Following the law: A guide for the perplexed graduate student doing research

Article Abstract:

A guide comprising of 20 laws helps graduate students doing thesis research. These laws contain advice about the facts of life in graduate research and will help motivate the students, explain how to be an effective student and convince them that supervised research is a symbiotic interaction between a student and his adviser.

United Kingdom, Methods, Motivation in education, Student motivation

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