Featured Resource - Faculty Job: Myths and Realities Interview Series by Arif Ashraf
Blog, Careers, Careers - BlogThis week we are featuring the Faculty Job: Myths and Realities Series created by ASPB Ambassador Arif Ashraf. In each interview, faculty members describe their journey from student to newly appointed faculty and answer the following questions:
What inspired you most to pursue your current career?
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Plantae Internships and conference updates from the PSRN
Blog, Careers - Blog, Careers in Plant Science, Internships, Plant Science Research Network, Undergraduate StudentsThe Plant Science Research Network attends two conferences each fall to support undergraduate research and education: SACNAS and ABRCMS. Connecting undergraduate students to research opportunities in the plant sciences is a goal of the PSRN, which curates resources to support student research, careers,…
Announcing the Career Fair at Plant Biology 2019
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This year at Plant Biology 2019, we will have several Career Fair activities for you to participate in.
On the Plantae Job Center, both employees and job seekers will be able to mark on their jobs or profiles that they will be attending Plant Biology 2019. Employers will also be able to purchase…
Announcing the Plantae Conviron Seeding Discovery Competition
Blog, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate StudentsWe’re excited to launch a novel initiative in support of early career plant scientists: the Plantae Conviron Seeding Discovery competition...
Fantastic Collaborations and How to Find Them
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Guest post by George Kantor, Senior Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
This much is a truism: a successful career in any interdisciplinary field requires collaboration with people from different disciplines. It is more difficult to define what skills are needed to be…
Get the Ball Rolling! Applying and Interviewing for Careers in Industry
Careers, Careers - BlogGuest post by Guillaume Beaudoin, Scientist, Conagen Inc.
About one year has gone by since I had begun seriously looking for a job to end my postdoctoral experience at the University of Florida. I had read all the doom and gloom: how the ratio of the number of faculty positions to PhDs is forever…
A new approach to graduate professional development; lessons learned from a leadership retreat
Blog, Careers - BlogIf you had 48 free hours, what are the odds you’d spend them at a leadership retreat? Prior to my own experience I would have said “not likely”. After all, I’m a second-year graduate student with coursework, experiments, and TA responsibilities clamoring for my time. I’m also a member of the…
Informational Interview with Professor David Parrott, Westminster University (PUI)
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Bret Hart, Conviron Scholar
I interviewed Dr. David Parrott, Ph.D. He is currently at Westminster University, but earned his Ph.D. in Plant Science at Utah State University after a B.S. in Botany and an M.A. in Biology from Humboldt State University. He is focused on teaching undergraduates at…
Informational Interview with Prof. Christopher Jones, Moravian College (PUI)
Profiles of Plant ScientistsBy Christopher Sorich, Conviron Scholar
Dr. Christopher Jones is professor and chair of the Biology department at Moravian College located in Bethlehem, PA. He is interested in many aspects of molecular genetics, but his research focuses primarily on the genetics of behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila…