From PhD to Life blog
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Kenna Barrett, Director of Development, Transition Q & A
At a talk I once gave a woman in the audience was feeling awkward that she’d have a better shot at going backward in her…
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Do PhDs really want tenure-track jobs?
Last week the US National Endowment for the Humanities announced a major new funding initiative for career preparation programming for graduate students. In response, professor and higher…
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Grad school is part of your career
Last week I participated in an event for engineering graduate students at McMaster University. I was interviewed over Google Hangout by three students. They asked…
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Paul Hartley, Senior Resident Anthropologist, Transition Q&A
Paul Hartley trained as an ethnomusicologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a PhD candidate. He worked on music production…
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Christine Buske, Head of Outreach, Transition Q&A
What’s an extroverted biology PhD to do? Well, for Christine, the current answer is to work as head of outreach for a software company! About…
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My new mission: From PhD to Life, the book!
Oh, this is a bit scary! Yup, I’m working on a book. It’s about the emotional transition part of going “from PhD to life,” whatever…
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Pablo Dominguez Andersen, Content Manager, Transition Q&A
I love this story! Pablo did a history PhD and originally aimed at working as a professor. But as he finished his degree he realized…
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Sara Langworthy, Organizational Consultant, Transition Q&A
About Sara Langworthy Sara Langworthy earned her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota. She’s currently an educator at University of Minnesota Extension’s…
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Joseph Fruscione, Carolyn Harris and Andrew Miller, Transition Updates
About Joseph Fruscione Joseph Fruscione (PhD, English) contributed to the Transition Q & A series in December 2013. He was then teaching first-year writing in…
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Kimberley Yates, Veronica Rubio Vega and Rachel Mueller-Lust, Transition Update
About Kimberley Yates Kimberley Yates (PhD, English) contributed to the Transition Q & A series in March 2013. She was then associate director of the Jackman…