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Suarez hopes that by sharing her experiences and observations about the first few years of grad school, she can help others through this critical time.

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

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

NASCAR is hiring mechanical engineers and aerodynamics scientists to shave milliseconds off lap times and push racecars to their limits.

Science Careers talks to three young investigators who contributed to this year's monumental discovery.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

Managing an intimate relationship at work requires awareness of potential pitfalls and a delicate balance of privacy and openness.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

Despite what grad school admissions committees seem to believe, outside interests are good.

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

Experts discussed how mentoring differs for minorities and how it can be tweaked to ensure that scientists don't hit a "mentoring glass ceiling."

One of the last sessions at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting looked at transformative research and the factors that facilitate it—or don't.

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

A CIFRE agreement "is a good way of ... doing research and keeping other doors open," says Sylvain Schwartz.

A recent NSF report finds that efforts to improve the representation of women, minorities, and people with disabilities in science and engineering are slow going.

Scientists with an ability to work across fields can find exciting opportunities in biomaterials.

As maps have changed, so have mapmakers.