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Articles By Elisabeth Pain

  • Career Profiles
    Life and Career
    Career Profiles
    Life and Career
    Career Profiles
    Life and Career

    Helping Paralympians Go for Gold

    Sports biomechanics researcher Barry Mason works on improving wheelchair design for basketball and rugby athletes.

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  • Career Advice
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Career Advice
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Career Advice
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market

    Gambling on Transformative Research

    Scientists with the right skills and attitude find limited but increasing opportunities to pursue high-risk, high-reward research.

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    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
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    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Career Advice
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    Q&A: A Career on the Fence

    A graduate school dean and former Olympic athlete reflects on science, fencing, and how the two activities have benefited each other.

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    Midcareer
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career
    Midcareer
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career
    Midcareer

    Career Q&A: Equality for Quality

    Curt Rice of the University of Tromsø discusses why helping women prepare for promotions is both right and smart.

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    Content Collection: Lab Management

    New group leaders need to learn how to manage people, projects, finances, and more.

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    Diversity Issues
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career
    Diversity Issues
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career
    Diversity Issues

    Career Q&A: A Successful Career Without Credentials

    Paleontologist Jack Horner overcame dyslexia and the lack of a traditional education to become a world leader in his field.

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    Career Q&A: From Science to Fiction

    Spanish pharmacologist Amàlia Lafuente has written a novel about the personal and professional conflicts faced by early-career researchers.

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    Going Against the Grain

    As a graduate student, Denis Gebauer had to work hard to prove that his unorthodox findings on crystallization were real.

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    The Job Market
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    Life and Career

    Plant Hunters

    With many species still undiscovered, plant collecting can offer exciting opportunities for adventurous scientists -- at some cost in comfort and job security.

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    Career Advice
    Postdoc
    Issues and Perspectives
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    Postdoc
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    Postdoc

    Science in the Community

    Researchers have much to gain from involving citizens as research partners.

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