A year ago, I began graduate school. I can recall sitting, bright eyed and bushy tailed, in an auditorium with my fellow first years as our director of graduate studies greeted us and told us Read More
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Literature is the window to a culture. However, there are concepts and ideas that may be untranslatable because they are unique to that culture. In such a case, what does a translator do? This is Read More
Tumor hypoxia, a characteristic feature of advanced solid tumors, is considered as a potential therapeutic problem for cancer therapy. Scientists at Dongguk University have put together an exhaustive summary of what we know about chemicals Read More
My alarm was set for 6am on Monday, 1st May, 2015 – my Viva day; but I was wide awake by 5am. The sun was shining so I took my dogs for a long walk while I Read More
The shortest month of the year has just gone by, and yet, so much happened this month in the academic and scholarly publishing world! We’re sure you want to know it all. We have Read More
Hi, pleased to meet you! Sometimes I think it’s so obvious that combining PhD life with personal life means that we sometimes honestly don’t even know who we are anymore. I am often Read More
Over 40% of women in the US leave full-time science careers once they embrace parenthood, according to a study led by Erin Cech, a sociologist at the University of Michigan. To understand the impact of parenthood Read More
I tried to shake hands with someone wearing an arm sling and it became the highlight of my science career. With only a few months left before applying to graduate school, I went to the Read More
If you asked me two years ago where I would be now, I never in a million years would have said sitting at my desk every week day reading journal articles and writing a proposal Read More
I wasn’t supposed to be in the office that Tuesday morning, but the deadline for a conference paper was looming, and I had to escape my house to concentrate on writing. When someone knocked Read More
