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BY DAVID KENT | June 13 2022

We want to actively encourage a wider range of perspectives to represent early career researchers.

BY MEGAN EASTON | June 10 2022

For professor Fiona Rawle, compassionate teaching is the bedrock for student success.

BY STUART CHAMBERS | June 09 2022

A part-time professor’s most important lesson: survival.

BY LORNA MACEACHERN & CHANTELLE THAUVETTE | June 06 2022

Goal setting helps graduate students approach studies mindfully, normalizes challenges around future goals.

BY ALI ARYA, ADRIAN D. C. CHAN, KIM HELLEMANS & DAVID J. HORNSBY | June 02 2022

Training needs to go beyond course delivery and focus on evolving issues such as student mental health and educational technology.

BY SHARON ENGBRECHT | June 01 2022

Where non-academic work can help you cross the bridge back to the professoriate.

BY JANICE KUNG | May 26 2022

The h-index and journal impact factor are two well-known methods to determine how well your research is being received.

BY ZUZANA SCHMIDTOVA RITZER | May 20 2022

We need to minimize the impact the pandemic has had on international learners.

BY SHOSHANAH JACOBS, M. ALEX SMITH, LISA ROBERTSON, VICTORIA REA & BAILEY BINGHAM | May 18 2022

A recent study looked at how often students engage with their professors outside of the classroom, and how much accessibility and inclusivity matter.

BY LETITIA HENVILLE | May 17 2022

Be sure to define your terms, detail your experience and outline your future plans.

BY BAILEY SOUSA & ALEXANDER CLARK | May 12 2022

You didn’t come into academia to do email: use this acrostic tool to attain R-E-D-E-M-P-T-I-O-N and break its hold over you.

BY PASCALE CASTONGUAY | May 10 2022

A retired professor shares the ingredients of a successful thesis supervisor-PhD student relationship.

BY MELISSA DALGLEISH | May 05 2022

When mentorship skills are a major influence on student success in STEM, how do you develop training that meets that challenge?

BY LOLEEN BERDAHL | May 03 2022

Why a small investment of time now can make future course planning much easier.

BY ELISE SAMMONS, MEAGAN AUER & DAX D’ORAZIO | April 29 2022

The TaPPS program encourages departmental collaboration and graduate student leadership.

BY MARIA GALLO | April 26 2022

Connecting with others in your field can offer job search insights, networking opportunities and a chance to learn about different career paths.

BY HEATHER CLITHEROE | April 20 2022

Research mobility makes for better science; it builds and shares capacity.

BY LETITIA HENVILLE | April 19 2022

You wouldn’t start a road trip without a destination in mind or a map of your route. Grant applications work in the same way.

BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | April 13 2022

Your ego makes you too certain about everything – but this is most harmful when least obvious.

BY JAMES SOUTHWORTH | April 06 2022

Rather than transmitting course content, in-person class time should be dedicated toward deep and transformative learning.

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