Month: April 2015
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Beyond the Professoriate conference preview
Beyond the Professoriate is coming up soon! Maren and I are very excited and thrilled with the group we’ve gathered. Read the full preview here. An excerpt: My conference is coming up fast! Beyond the Professoriate will bring together 25 PhDs from a wide variety of disciplines – engineering to ethnomusicology, genetics to German – who…
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Transition Q & A: Raj Dhiman
So what does a guy with a PhD in bio-organic chemistry do outside the academy? Work in tech sales, of course! Well, that’s one option. Read about Raj Dhiman’s transition from science postdoc to corporate sales training manager over at my University Affairs blog. Here’s an excerpt: What do you do now? For the past…
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Transition Q & A: Viviane Callier
Viviane Callier has a PhD in biology and now works as a science writer at the US National Cancer Institute. Here how the interview begins: What did you hope for in terms of employment as you completed your PhD? When I finished my PhD, I had lined up a postdoc in the same field of…