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"It's an opportunity to take a step back from the everyday grind, learn something about your capabilities, try out some different skills ..."

"Nowadays," she continued, "people have much more freedom in their personal lives and professional choices than they did when they were sold to an apprenticeship in the old days, and yet, at the same time, they're buying into this almost feudal system in which once you dedicate a certain number of years, you are bound by the amount of time you've spent." --Allegra Goodman

Given the opportunity, Jana Kadukova says she would definitely be keen to work abroad again. "In my opinion, everyone should try this once in their life," she says

Peering in from the outside, the research lab I visited for about a month provided a completely different research experience than what I was used to in the United States.

Transfer students thrived when we brought them together with successful peers and program alumni to form formal and informal peer networks.

Most Ph.D. students manage to support themselves, however modestly, with a combination of TAs, RAs, and fellowships.

“I’d like to be here [longer]. But now my wife and my baby are in Japan, so I have to go back.”

You need to tell an intriguing story about your research. Everyone in the audience has to understand it, each at a level appropriate to them.

“Researchers themselves must maintain labs from a safety perspective.” --Jim Kapin, 2006 chair of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety

Applying for a position as a full-time researcher in a French research institute is a good way for foreigners to land a job in France because knowledge of the French language is not required.

Gregory is now nearing completion of his Ph.D. at UCLA so now he has to figure out the next step on his career path.

"This is a sacred belief [that good researchers make good teachers] in academe, but no one has ever demonstrated it; the only evidence for it is anecdotal, the kind that professors reject when it's offered by students."