
AG Careers: Career Profiles
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Want a career in agriculture? AgCareers is a website that specializes in ag careers. One of the terrific resources on the site is a list of Career Profiles, each of which describe a different type of ag job. Examples include:
Plant Pathologist, Viticulturist and Plant Breeder, and Plant Geneticis…

GROW: Horticulture Career Info
Careerpaths, Careers, Undergraduate StudentsGROW is a UK-based initiative "set up by a group of influential organisations within the horticulture industry to inform people about horticultural careers and the range of fantastic opportunities horticulture has to offer".
Here you can learn about different careers and career paths in horticulture,…

Andrea Eveland Teases Apart Gene Networks in Crop Plants
Blog, Careers, Profiles of Plant ScientistsThe Scientist (Feb 1 2017) profiles Andrea Eveland, Principle Investigator at the Danforth Center.
Read more here Andrea Eveland Teases Apart Gene Networks in Crop Plants
Her lab webpage https://www.danforthcenter.org/scientists-research/principal-investigators/Andrea-Eveland

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and Botanical Society of America (BSA) are recruiting 20 PlantingScience Fellows to participate in Digging Deeper Project
Education General, Mentoring
Digging Deeper: Developing a Model for Collaborative Teacher/Scientist Professional Development
Are you passionate about science education? Would you like to build connections with high school biology teachers and their students? Are you excited about an opportunity to share what's so exciting…

Communicating Effectively with Graphics
Careers, Careers - Blog, Skills and Advice, Writing/Reviewing/Publishing/CommunicatingFrédéric Bouché, a postdoctoral research with Richard Amasino at the University of Wisconsin, recently caught our attention when he published a set of impressive visual abstracts to support his latest research papers. We invited him to share how and why he makes these images. -Editors
When you…

Profile of Natasha Raikhel from The Scientist
Careers, Careers in Plant Science, Profiles of Plant ScientistsPutting Down Roots: A survivor and a pioneer, Natasha Raikhel emigrated to the U.S. from Soviet Russia and made a career of studying protein trafficking in plants.
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Plant science for a better world
Careers, Careers in Plant Science, Profiles of Plant ScientistsThe creators of this clever & mildly humorous 3-minute video want everyone to know, 'We are happy to work for plant science and we want to share this feeling with others.'
Fun music and snippets of text make this video perfect for Career Day or introducing plant science in secondary or tertiary…

What really happens on a faculty search committee?
Careers, Finding Your Next Position, PostdocsThis is very interesting for job hunters. Sean Eddy from Harvard has written a blog post about how his search committee is going about identifying six people to interview from a pool of nearly 200 applications.
Nature has also written a summary of how people are responding and reacting to this po…

Resources for promoting diversity from Ambika Kamath Description
Careers, Skills and Advice, Workplace DiversityOne of the professional skills needed for a career in science (or any career) is how to promote and sustain a workplace that is supportive to everyone. Not everyone is trained in this skill though. Here is a list of articles that can help you to master the whys and hows of workplace diversity.
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