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I’m going to start this by making two big disclaimers: Okay, and with that out of the way, this is what I recommend keeping in mind when choosing a PI and lab for grad school! Mentorship: how hands-on and supportive is the PI Do you want a PI who you meet with regularly, someone who […]

Communicating science to non-scientists is a skill that takes time to build, and honestly, it’s not something most of us are formally trained to do. As scientists, we’re taught how to write papers, present data, and explain our work to people within our field. But once you step outside of that space, everything changes. Most […]

With everything moving online over the past few years, virtual conferences quickly became the default. What used to be something you’d travel for, flights, hotels, long days at convention centers, suddenly turned into something you could attend from your desk. At first, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. A big part of conferences, […]

What is STEM Outreach I’m sure many of you have heard about outreach before, and likely done it in some way, shape, or form, whether that was something you chose to do or something required in high school or college. At its core, outreach simply means reaching out and helping a community. In STEM (Science, […]

Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is a smaller professional society of ~800 women in science around the United States. Once a year, they host a conference to bring women from across the STEM disciplines together, learn from and connect with each other! 2022’s GWIS conference was at my Alma Mater, University of Wisconsin-Madison, so of […]