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It's scary and exciting for exactly the same reason: The possibilities are endless.

The old GrantsNet funding database is getting some new content and features.

"I can see no reason to justify the exclusion of deaf people from scientific laboratories." --Sarah Page

You increase the chances of your paper being accepted if you make the assumption that the reviewers are offering their suggestions as constructive criticism.

Writing well comes from writing a lot, so get comfy with your computer.

"The novice writer makes a big mistake in blaming language knowledge for everything," says Mary Ellen Kerans, chair of the Mediterranean Editors and Translators association in Barcelona, Spain.

“Reduced economic opportunities in some fields relative to others … may be an important factor driving native students to enter particular occupations and avoid others.” --George Borjas

Your writing should reflect the same clarity and concision as your research.

It was like being a first-year graduate student and having long, one-on-one meetings with Harold Varmus, Francis Crick, and Craig Venter.

"This idea of research was foreign to me. I'm sure that had it not been for that opportunity, I would not be a scientist today." --Wilfredo Colón

The challenges are both logistical and emotional, and if training and productivity are compromised, scientific careers can be derailed.

Very few of the factors that will make you successful are out of your hands.

Some things must be worked through, and that takes time.

Academic institutions may offer some of the best opportunities for exchanges with India.

India's top institutions make up a comprehensive and well-funded research network rivaling those in the West.

“It’s not really for fast trackers,” says Ann Russell, a terrestrial-ecosystem biologist at Iowa State University in Ames. “But if you really want to do it, the important thing is that you have to play by the rules.”

"Every week you are broadcasted, and every week you are praised or despised," says
REDES subdirector Sebastián Grinschpun.