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I always visit my middle school science teacher when I’m in my home area. She was my first cheerleader who encouraged me to get into science. So I was beyond ecstatic to…
It was fairly easy going back to the lab one day a week, knowing my husband was at home spending quality time with our daughter. It was a somewhat a larger leap to…
Once the test was over, and the applications were in, I had all the time in the world to think about what was bothering me outside of work. And I realized that I was…
I am an American living in Japan, where I teach English to freshman high school students. But it was not always this way; I used to be a geologist. But clearly, all that…
As an academic, I split my time between three major activities – research, teaching, and administration. Trying to keep these balanced and striving to excel, across…
- Dr. Ben Britton
- November 12, 2018
A while ago, even though I love academic research, I began to understand that I was becoming what my dad would call a ‘stagnant postdoc.’ This is a post-doctoral…
I need a little motivation right now – a nice reminder of why I wanted to be a scientist and why I get up every morning to go to work, even on the most unglamorous…