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Finding Mentorship As an Underrepresented Scientist

Finding Mentorship As an Underrepresented Scientist

March 30, 2022

Having to conduct three rotations across various labs for the first year of my human genetics Ph.D. experience has been both an exhilarating and arduous experience. While engaging with a large breadth of science, I have experienced the constant uncertainty of whether I can make a space for myself in this new environment. As a […]

Rama Alharari ⋅ A Day in the Life bias, graduate students, mentorship, representation ⋅

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Is TRU for You? What a Graduate Student Union Could Mean for Hopkins Graduate Workers

August 10, 2021

Would a union help graduate student workers at Hopkins? @GraciousSteward examines a graduate student union contract negotiated by the same union that @TRUhopkins proposes graduate workers join.

Grace Steward ⋅ A Day in the Life election, graduate students, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, unions ⋅

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Living in the Gray Area Between Student and Employee

May 6, 2021

Are Ph.D. candidates students or employees? The answer is a little fuzzy, which makes it difficult to find a work-life balance while pursuing your Ph.D. Here are some thoughts on how we can take back some control.

Grace Steward ⋅ A Day in the Life boundaries, graduate students, Ph.D., work, Work-Life Balance ⋅

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5 Things I Had to Unlearn in Graduate School

December 7, 2020

Adapting to her new environment in grad school has not only required Riley Bannon to learn new things, but also unlearn the way she thought about education and success.

Riley Bannon ⋅ A Day in the Life Graduate School, graduate students, self-reflection, tips ⋅

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The Virtual DBO

September 18, 2020

Graduate students must pass a challenging oral exam to advance in their Ph.D. program. How can they navigate this checkpoint during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Ashton Omdahl ⋅ A Day in the Life doctoral board exam, graduate board exam, graduate students, ph.d. candidacy exam ⋅

Rosanna Dent, assistant professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, presents her work on the history of anthropology to a captivated academic audience in the history of medicine department’s seminar room.

The Value of Weekly Seminars

June 1, 2020

Despite their divided administrations, the Johns Hopkins history of medicine and history of science and technology departments intersect weekly in their colloquium series, enabling a cross-campus fertilization of the school of medicine and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Kristin Brig ⋅ A Day in the Life colloquia, cross-campus, graduate students, Seminar ⋅

The annual GSA Week poster session.

The Graduate Student Association: a Voice for Graduate Students Across Campus

February 28, 2020

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a graduate student in possession of a stipend must be in want of free food. It is this fact that the Graduate Student Association (GSA) uses to draw students to their multitude of events, but there is more to the GSA than you may expect.

Kyla Britson ⋅ A Day in the Life, Honor Roll Graduate School, graduate students, GSA, student representative ⋅

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The Future of Biomedical Education: Part Three

October 11, 2019

Soon, there will be an exciting and different twist on the traditional Ph.D. training environment: XDBio — the Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences.

Natalie Joe ⋅ A Day in the Life Graduate program, Graduate School, graduate students, XDBio ⋅

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Switching Career Paths: Rediscovering Your Scientific Passion

October 1, 2019

Graduate student Bernat Navarro-Serer's Ph.D. wasn’t a reassurance of his professional goals, but instead opened a whole world of career options.

Bernat Navarro-Serer ⋅ A Day in the Life Academia, Career, graduate students, science policy ⋅

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Culture Shock: My Experience with Classism in Higher Education

July 31, 2019

This summer, I took a road trip that ran through South Carolina and decided to stop by Sumter, a little town where I had lived for a few years as a preteen. Of Sumter’s 40,000 residents, 20.6% live below the poverty line, with a median household income of $38,562. Although the poverty rate in Baltimore […]

Brianna Barry ⋅ A Day in the Life classism, graduate students, socioeconomics ⋅

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