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"The business plan for a typical modern-day research laboratory is akin to that of a business leasing a retail store, or space in a shopping mall."

Although the key objective of informational interviewing isn't networking, informational interviewing
is networking, in that the contacts you make may end up helping you find a job.

"Whether it's how we treat the environment or each other, it's all connected," says Martina Hoft, conservation botanist and real estate broker.

Are you following the path of least resistance?

Eleven tribal colleges have banded together to join the National Science Foundation-sponsored All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation (ANAMP) in order to help Native Americans train for careers in engineering.

"No doubt, over the long term, this can only favor cooperation at the scientific level." --Nicolas Boulanger

Confessions of a crop-protection professional

E-mail your questions for Dr. Clemmons to
msnadvice@aaas.org.

A look at successful organizations suggests that encouraging postdoc involvement is critical. Orkin put it bluntly: "There is only so much that can be brought about by trickle down from the top."

My most recent adventure, however, took me just a little farther south than I ever would have imagined going.

People sometimes overestimate the extent to which the conventional assumptions apply. Often, for example, managers assume they are more qualified than they really are to judge their employees' performance.

"The happiness and success of the next generation depend on our ability to balance home and work responsibilities while giving our kids all the love and support they need."

"What differs is the nature of the thing created (some would say discovered) -- external knowledge on the one hand; knowledge of self through character, passion, and curiosity -- human potential -- on the other."

--Dr. Willie Pearson, chair of Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society