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Lenggenhager helped develop an experimental concept aimed at recreating out-of-body experiences in healthy subjects as a way to study distorted self-consciousness.

If I'm a competitive student, with a very good record and lots of promise, my decision on what grad school to attend will probably depend on pay, faculty, and facilities. In that order.

"Kijk niet zo op tegen een hoogleraar. Die staat niet hoger dan jullie. Jullie hebben hem inderdaad nodig, maar hij heeft jullie, jonge onderzoekers, ook nodig."

As Dwight Eisenhower once said, "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." The same may be said for careers.

"This way we cross barriers--something [that is] very difficult-- and the students benefit from a different way of doing science, from a broader perspective," says group leader Moya.

To choose a career path without first examining all the options--in detail--would be to sell myself short. I intend to be as mindful as possible about the steps I take once I leave graduate school.

America's place in the scientific universe is different, as is the way science and scientists are perceived by the society we work within.

"I haven't given up, although I've thought about it."

"Decision science is moving quickly, and is very open ... to new methods and ideas. You can really challenge things and make contributions," says decision-making scientist Carlos Trujillo.

I've come to that point in graduate school at which you dislike everything and everybody and want to do whatever you have to do to escape as quickly as possible.

What is unusual about this effort, however, is that HHMI—not NIBIB—will choose the participating institutions.

My internship experience validated my belief that a scientist can do great things outside the laboratory.

"The club's development was very often a thrilling trial-and-error evolutionary approach, as no one involved in it had ever done anything similar before."

Professional science master's degrees, like the Master of Business Administration degree on which they are modeled, are designed as terminal credentials for people seeking science-based careers outside of academe.

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.