Today, I am inviting Dr. Susan Bartos to talk about her defense. Susan completed her BS degree at Moravian College, graduating with honors in Nursing. Upon graduation from Moravian, she enrolled in the BS to PhD program at the University…
At some point during your PhD or in your years after your PhD, you will be asked to review a paper. I've done a fair amount of reviews by now, and have started to keep track of the reviews I…
Many journals require that you write a cover letter that accompanies your paper upon submission. However, it may not be clear from the guidelines for authors what is expected for this cover letter.In general, your cover letter should contain the…
Let's bring some more Q&A to you! Today, I'm focusing on the following comment that came to my blog:Not sure about the comment "what does not kill you". I have seen several candidates suffer mental breakdowns.This comment came together with…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Today, I have invited Konstantin Okonechnikov, who received his PhD in Germany, to the "Defenses around the world" series. Konstantin is currently a bioinformatics PostDoc in the Pediatric Neurooncology division at German Cancer Research Center. He is also quite interested…
My colleagues and I recently published a paper in Engineering Structures, titled "Development of recommendations for proof load testing of reinforced concrete slab bridges". You can download the paper for free for the next 50 days through this link.This paper…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see at which age most students receive their PhD. I compiled the results in a Storify:[View the story "Age for getting a PhD" on Storify]
I recently received the following question from a reader that I wanted to reply in a Q&A post:I want to ask question regarding phd subject.my question is that i have done mtech in computer science can i pursue phd with…
I recently ran a poll about teaching loads of professors in academia. While it is hard to compare the teaching loads of different contracts, I do get the impression that most professors teach two courses per semester - although none…
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