The ideal thesis mentor should be
successful as a scientist, experienced as a mentor, and willing to commit the time and resources needed for you to become successful yourself.
However, make sure it provides you with opportunities to gain the skills you need to be
successful as a scientist.
I once asked Bob what was the best predictor of whether or not someone would be hugely
successful as a scientist, and his reply was, «Whomever has the most fun at it.»
Not exact matches
It found that very
successful scientists are about 5 times
as likely to have no current religious affiliation (it's arguable if that equates more to atheism or agnosticism) than the general population.
Lewis» most
successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the
scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship
as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.
One week before the
successful flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the New York Times had this to say about a rival plane builder: «We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness
as a
scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time, and the money involved, in further airship experiments.
Second, Popper suggests that
scientists have to be reductionists in their methods, either naive or else more or less critical reductionists, and sometimes desperate critical reductionists, since,
as he points out, hardly any major reduction in science has ever been completely
successful.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
As part of its ongoing effort to improve the safety and security of the nation's food supply, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today gathered over 200 of the industry's top
scientists and quality assurance experts to assess its current food safety practices, share
successful practices and develop a comprehensive plan for preventing food - related health outbreaks.
Change may be on the horizon though
as scientists have completed a
successful trial on monkeys for a special gel that can be injected into a man's testicles (yea oww, but I bet it's not
as bad
as childbirth guys!).
He should be able to help you meet your own goals (not follow his own agenda) by providing you with support and guidance, modeling
successful behavior, introducing you to a strong network, and helping you identify your strengths and weaknesses
as a
scientist and a person.
A new understanding
as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help
scientists breed new, more
successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.
Articles on Science and Disability, 1970s Correspondence, 1970s Articles on Science and Disability, 1980s Conferences on Science and Disability, 1980s Correspondence, 1980s Articles on Science and Disability, 1990s Conferences on Science and Disability, 1990s Correspondence, 1990s Project Proposals (funded) on Science and Disability, 1990s Articles on Science and Disability, 2000s Conferences on Science and Disability, 2000s Correspondence, 2000s AAAS Annual Meeting - Barrier Free, 1976 A Disgn for Utilizing
Successful Disabled
Scientists as Role Models - Final Report, 1977 - 1978 Utilization of Scientific Professional Society Placement Services - Final Report, 1978 - 1980 Within Reach: Out of School Opportunities for Youth - A Guide, 1981 Appropriate Technology: Its Design and Use by Disabled People, Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 20, 1984 Appropriate Technology Workshop Papers, Nov. 20, 1984 Linkages Project meeting, Feb. 11, 1986 China Fund for the Handicapped: Deng Pufang, US Visit, Oct. 10,1987 Teaching Science and Mathematics to Students with Learning Disabilities: Challenges and Resources (NSF Grant 9552586), Jan. 1990 Recruitment and Retention of Students and Faculty with Disabilities in Schools of Engineering (NSF Grant EID 9101122), 1990 - 1995 Agenda for Access:
Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities, Oct. 1991 High School, High Tech, 1993 Model Undergraduate Project for the Disabled: A Study of Issues involved in underrepresentation (NSF Grand HRD 9054022), Jan. 31, 1994 AAAS - NASA ACCESS - Summer internship program, 1996 - 1997 AAAS - National Easter Seals Society ACCESS Science, 1996 - 1998 ENTRY POINT!
National organizations, however, and existing resources such
as the previously named organizations can help women along the physician -
scientist career path identify
successful mentors who can answer questions and offer support.
In fact many
scientists regard the planet - hunting space observatory
as one of NASA's most
successful scientific ventures.
The internal CSA team managing this activity serves
as the interface between
scientists, engineers, and other government space agencies to ensure the
successful delivery of this important payload.
It provides the
successful candidate with a period of mentored research
as part of a strong, established collaboration between a U.S. sponsor and leading developing country
scientist at an internationally recognized research institution.
To be
successful, she argues, the young
scientist must: 1) be aware of the geography of the journey, 2) be open to
as many options
as possible so that course changes can be made with minimal pain, 3) practice solid «people» and presentation skills (oral and written)
as often
as possible, and 4) be committed to the endeavor of hard work that is
successful science.
After several years
as a
successful associate professor, academic
scientists usually are promoted to full professor.
To become
successful as independent investigators, young
scientists must possess — or acquire — a battery of nonscientific skills.
One structural factor is the enormous rewards that governments bestow on conspicuously
successful senior
scientists as incentives «to overtake their advanced industrial counterparts.»
While this stereotype doesn't reflect how
scientists live and work today, it still shapes expectations about what a
successful career should look like, and that could impact career - relevant decisions such
as the awarding of prestigious research grants.
In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a
successful career in academe, warns fellow female
scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter
as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.
Today,
successful documentary - style popular science shows, such
as «Welt der Wunder» or «Planetopia» (German TV shows) offer good opportunities for
scientists to make it into the world of science TV.
They are often
successful, especially
as they tend to attract bright young
scientists looking for a lab with a life.
I reasoned that if I were
successful doing completely different work in a completely different environment, then at least some of my success was likely to be due to my abilities
as a research
scientist.
«We can only take it so far
as scientists; the economics need to work out in order for the W - TENG to be
successful,» Rao said.
In the article and the book he describes how many
successful scientists are mathematically «semiliterate», and reveals how,
as a 32 - year - old Harvard professor, he sat with undergraduates (some his own students) to learn calculus and achieve an undistinguished C. His aim is not to deter, but to encourage talented would - be
scientists who aren't naturals with numbers.
They label those who question whether we are advancing in the best direction
as Luddites, extremists or pressure groups, thereby deflecting attention from their own alliance with the most
successful pressure groups, such
as doctors and medical
scientists.
If you wish to be a
successful scientist, or indeed to excel in any chosen profession, children do not act
as hindrance, a shackle, a millstone round your neck; nor are they an excuse for failure, not for men or for women.
So
successful was Angara for Soviet
scientists that, in 1988, they had planned to start building another one that would have been able to generate a pulse of power eight times
as great
as Angara's, says Smirnov.
Even though you won't find me in the lab any more, the
successful introduction of my own product makes me feel just
as excited
as a
scientist after a great discovery.
Using props and examples from the fossil record, the
scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so
successful — such
as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.
Love in the Lab, by Vivienne Raper, 8 February You may be an item at home, but in the lab it is important for couples to be perceived
as two independent and
successful scientists.
This is a time when
successful scientists learn important things about themselves, such
as what kinds of work they really value and enjoy.
Throughout the duration of the program the visiting
scientists and guest speakers highlighted key cultural factors critical to the design, development, and implementation of a
successful mentoring program in the BMENA region, such
as collectivism versus individualism and the prevalence of institutional hierarchical structure (or not).
He started
as a tremendously
successful computer
scientist, having invented print - to - speech machines for the blind, music synthesizers and a host of other devices, and in 1990 he published his first forward - looking book, The Age of Intelligent Machines.
Though
successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such
as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of
scientists and administrators the best way to develop something
as basic
as a new understanding of the human brain?
Students can see themselves
as future
successful college students and they also learn that they don't have to leave WV if they want to be a
scientist or an engineer!
Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most
successful form of life — found miles deep below
as well
as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within
as well
as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New
Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).
As a
successful and world - renowned
scientist, Doudna is a role model for many young women pursuing careers in the sciences.
One study of the progress of junior LTSA
scientists, however, indicated that this goal has not, in fact, been achieved: 5 Junior LTSA
scientists have been substantially less
successful in obtaining tenure - track faculty positions than their peers with named fellowships, such
as the Hubble fellowships.
The sadness for his departure is alleviated by the thought that he had a
successful, long life
as a man and a
scientist up until the last days when, I was told, he died serenely with his affectionate wife, Shoko, close to him.
I have never met any person,
scientist or engineer, who has been
as much engaged and
as much
successful in representing interests and achieving aims of a scientific organizations in biomedical engineering
as Prof. Nagel.
Scientists respond
as maverick cloning
scientist Dr Panos Zavos announces
successful experiments to create cloned embryos using DNA from dead people.
Scientists were
successful in reversing mitochondrial decay in old rats by feeding them alpha lipoic acid and acetyl - carnitine in higher levels, which served to speed up the enzymes» ability to function
as well
as to increase cognition and improve heart rate.23 Animal - based foods such
as beef, chicken, milk and cheese are good sources of acetyl - carnitine.24
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Dyslexia affects all walks of life and many dyslexics go on to have
successful careers
as actors, chefs, dancers, poets,
scientists, computer technicians, teachers or indeed anything they choose to be.