What are informational interviews and why should you do them? Informational interview: speaking with someone about their knowledge for insights on their career path & areas of interest. This is not a request for a job or an interview! They …
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How I Stay on Top of my Science & Professional Development
Keeping up with scientific literature, career development, experiments, and the rest of life can be a bit overwhelming as a graduate student. To streamline information, I’ve found some great websites and tools to stay on top of science and professional …
GWIS Conference 2022 Recap & Advantages of Smaller Conferences
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is a smaller professional society of ~800 women in science around the United States. Once a year, they host a conference to bring women from across the STEM disciplines together, learn from and connect with …
Exploring Biology Conference 2022: What I Learned from my First In-Person Conference
I had the pleasure of going to the Exploring Biology Conference 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Exploring Biology is a huge conference made up of multiple large professional societies coming together. The society I came with was the American Association of …
Visiting the Alma Mater: What To Do in Madison, WI
During my undergrad at UW-Madison, I never appreciated the college-town surrounded by nature environment. It took until I moved to a big city, Miami, to remember how lucky I was to spend 4 years in a small city with such …
Communicating Science to Non-Scientists
Why bother communicating science outside of your field? Why share your science to non-scientists at all? When more people understand the science we are doing, it increases people’s understanding of what science can do! Or, as the The National Academies …
My Beginnings in Science Outreach
My first experience with science outreach came as a junior in high school. My friends and I loved to go to the Minnesota Zoo, and one of them was volunteering at kids Minnesota Zoo summer day camps. She invited me …
A Weekend on a Boat in Key West
One of the best things living in Miami is how close I am to other tropical places! Key West is just a 3.5 hr drive from Miami, along jaw dropping highway bridges across the Atlantic. The drive alone is worth …
Chicago in 36 Hours
A whirlwind of a weekend vacation! Lots of delicious food & seeing family and friends packed into a tight weekend trip. Here’s what we go up to Friday night – Sunday morning! Friday Night We didn’t get a flight until …
Virtual Conferences, Are They Worth It?
Virtual conferences were rare before the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world. Conferences were always in person, and I’ll bet many of you hadn’t even heard of successful virtual conferences before 2020. I was skeptical when I first heard conferences were …