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Spending some time investigating your interests before starting a Ph.D. will improve the likelihood that you pick a project that keeps your interest over several years.

Government grants for technology-based businesses are very similar to those you might win in academia, but because they are given to small businesses, there is an added focus on technology commercialization.

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

"It's important to identify where you want to head because there are no career paths in nanotechnology." --Kshitij Aditeya Singh

"Our best people foster a killer instinct."

Value these moments of interaction with your supervisor. … If you are well-prepared, progress-review meetings will make a magnificent contribution to achieving your main goal, the completion of your research projects.

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

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

"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

His cultural identity has not caused any real hardships or put any of his professional goals out of reach, Bounceur feels.

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.