Time Management for Profs Who Hate Time Tracking

This is for those of you who HATE time tracking. Because you’re too creative. Your job is too unpredictable. You don’t believe in time as we know it….whatever your reason. The only commodity you have as a scientist or physician is your time. And if you aren’t controlling your time with an iron fist, you […]

Why Am I Talking?

Flashbacks to faculty gaffs from unfiltered comments. Use the “Why Am I Talking” (WAIT) Plan to be heard in the right ways at the right times.

Don’t Crash on Approach

Getting the approach section of your grant fine-tuned is crucial. You must land your science smoothly.

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Live Beneath Your Means

“I don’t want to miss the details of the resurrection. You always said becoming a division head would happen over your dead body, what gives?” After some warm-up, the facts spilled out: My friend wasn’t looking forward to being director of a large division. Her husband’s cancer, children approaching college, diminishing retirement contributions in a […]

Working Backwards: Digna Velez Edwards

Digna Velez Edwards, PhD, can’t remember never doing science. Whether through research initiatives or attending science programs as a child, she always sought to feed her love of nature and observational science. After working in a zebrafish lab as an undergraduate student, she hoped to find an area of study that was more translational, which […]