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"I like the fact that I'm steering my own ship in terms of research. I feel like an entrepreneur." --Lance Silverman

I'm probably going to evolve as I move along the path of that photon.

"I feel confident that my ideas are good enough to go up against the rest of the world, but the question is, can I generate enough preliminary data fast enough?
- Emmanuel Chang"

"Teaching at a community college is not lecturing; it's more hands-on. You have to do a lot more work as a teacher, because students are not nearly as prepared." --Michaeleen Lee

"If you have already learned how to function independently in a laboratory environment by the time you graduate from your undergraduate institution, then you are really well-prepared for graduate school." --Chris Burge

"For the great majority of students, some time off is a good idea." --Deborah Goldberg

"Trying to get tenure in that department, I perceived, was going to be a battle." --Dawn Del Carlo.

"When you have happy employees that know that you care about them, they're more loyal and work hard to show you that they can make things work." --Donna Davila

"Thou shalt not have typos." --Andrew Feig, Wayne State University

We are underinvesting in research and development in just about every sector, whether it's transportation or telecommunications or energy, in both the public sector and the private sector. We need to encourage both.

"Name it--different shape, size, and forms--we did it. We did banana juice, we did diced bananas, frozen, dried--whatever." --Aurora Saulo

"Where I think you're going to see a problem is the new lab that wants to get into stem-cell research that hasn't previously been doing it or a lab that may be doing stem-cell research but is in a state that really underfunds it." --Evan Snyder

Because policymakers often are unfamiliar with the environmental science involved, a decision analyst serves as a conduit to translate the data into a useful framework.

"You really need to know what you want. Figuring it out is the hard part, but doing it is the easy part." --Sandeep Jauhar

"The global health field has both been around forever and is brand-new." --Hannah Kettler, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

"I was optimistically willing to sacrifice any number of years of my life and money for that career path." --Laurie Earls

"You have this relationship forming which is an unequal relationship in which you bear a great amount of responsibility." --A former neuroscience researcher

"I would say that there's definitely enough work to go around." --Emma Hitt

John Long, his collaborators, and his Vassar undergraduates study fish biomechanics and behavior.

Known for small classes and a focus on undergraduate education, most such colleges also require--from their younger, newer faculty members, at least--substantial research activity.