Dear Dora,
I’m having a hard time making ends meet and am considering taking a part-time job in the evenings to help keep me afloat. If I’m enrolled full-time as a grad student, is that legal? I’m hesitant to ask our graduate coordinator since I don’t want to anyone to get suspicious.
M.J., graduate student
Lately, there’s been a lot of movement on the Search for Research Leaderboard. Not the kind of movement caused by prunes – we’re talking about the kind caused by votes. So coming into the homestretch, we’ll keep a close eye on how many votes separate the top contenders so we can help give our favorites the final pushes they need to win.
Conference season is in full swing and many of our poster tubes have logged more mileage than Mark Hamill got from Star Wars. Coming off of the recent American Chemical Society (ACS) and American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) meetings, there is little rest before the summer Gordon conference schedule begins. Although a scientific conference rarely lasts for more than a week, we often prepare for months on end – performing last-minute experiments, designing beautiful posters and battling large-format printers. So how many times a year should we be putting ourselves through this wringer?
There are exactly three weeks left in Search for Research and the proposals are fantastic! It’s going to come down to the wire so we’ve listed the top 20 entries to encourage people to vote for proposals they think deserve the money and to inspire them to submit their own ideas. The titles alone could be the names of books, Hollywood movies, kids toys or country songs, and the research proposed is even more interesting!
Dear Dora,
My PI has started asking me to review papers that he’s supposed to be reviewing- is this allowed? Isn’t that part of his job?!
- Suspicious in San Fran, Grad student
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