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BIN-RDI is modeling its architecture on university campuses where private companies have set up shop and are able to work with faculty members and students.

"The nanotechnology field is still pretty small. It’s an early enterprise, with a lot of excitement and a lot of risk." --Ken Smith

"Our best people foster a killer instinct."

Although I am a huge fan of the Internets (thank you, Senator Stevens), I am profoundly thrilled by what can happen when you talk to strangers, upside-down-face to upside-down-face, in a place such as a yoga class.

"If, in the course of the day, faculty spend some time talking about their career and careers in general, it wouldn’t be something they would have to keep a note of in a logbook and say, ‘Oh, this isn’t research-related.’ ”--Joseph Ellis

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

"I explained what I wanted to do. I warned that it would be different from what they were used to. Then I asked if they could help me. And they all agreed." --Rita Thornton

If you have any interest in management consulting, investment banking, or quantitative finance, these information sessions may be a valuable window on the recruitment process.

The chance to encourage more women to enter engineering is another reason she joined the University at Buffalo faculty.

Is it ineptitude or something worse?

"It might be okay to take a shortcut if you're trying to decide which peanut butter to buy, but in the area of career decisions, shortcuts are dangerous." –J. Edward Russo

The roads of Brittany were littered with cyclists who failed to live by this rule; so are the roads of science.

Good management ability is essential to productive scientists, but most receive no formal management training prior to starting their own lab.

"Laughter is highly relevant to scientific inquiry because it creates a safe and playful atmosphere for intellectual development." --David Sloan Wilson