Don't Miss the Deal Breakers: Nine Questions for New Lab Staff Hires
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Hooray! You’ve set up a lab. You have a scale and everything. Now the applicants are pounding down your door looking forward to helping you get the Nobel Prize. …
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Building Your First Lab: Tips, Success Stories, and How to Build Your Own Team
The Edge for Scholars
Running a lab is the ultimate goal for many early-career scientists, but building a lab that will eventually produce research is often a difficult process. Laboratories come with a host …
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How To Be an Academic Leader and Maintain Time For Yourself
Susan Dyer
Seventh grade English class and your assignment is to write a one pager about what you want to be when you grow up. Hmmm…sports writer, teacher, astronaut, video game …
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A Guide to Managing Research Teams
Timothy Hohman, PhD
Our ability to effectively manage a team, which often is not taught in academic medicine, is critical to the success of our careers.
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Small Wins for Sustained Success: The Progress Principle
The Edge for Scholars
Don’t let your lab’s fortunes sink like the Titanic, to borrow the opening simile from The Progress Principle. Read this book instead and find out how to facilitate …
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10 Takeaways for Managing Undergraduate Research Assistants
Helen Bird
With guidance, undergrads can be reliable, competent and self-motivated young scientists who are an integral part of your research team.
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Change Your Default Meeting Time
The Edge for Scholars
I’d like to make a modest proposal. We should stop scheduling meetings with zero time to go from one meeting to the next. Does this describe your life? You …
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Build a Great Team: Help Your Staff Help You
Rebecca Helton, MA
Your staff is here to help you succeed. Use their talents well.
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The Cool Professor
The Edge for Scholars
When I started my lab I had a very distinct idea of the type of PI I wanted to be. I had experienced some different styles and observed many others. …
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