Conferences are also one
of the standard ways
of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the
kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their
careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes
of Health (
NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a
career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).