I reflect on my last year of experience learning how to interview, recruit, manage, lead, and support students in conducting biomedical research and provide my top 10 recommended books on these topics. (continue reading)
I recently had the honor of giving the Keynote address at the Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) + Learn with Leaders Summer Research Workshop. I just wanted to provide here a partial transcript of the major points in my Keynote address. (continue reading)
Visibility in academia is both a contributor to and outcome of scholarly reputation. I reflect on my experiences that demonstrate how the resources for enhancing our visibility cannot be assumed to have been made available for all who should be entitled to access them. I conclude that the onus is falling on our shoulders to create our own visibility. So I provide some alternative resources for doing so. (continue reading)
It has been approximately a year since I started my journey as a tenure-track assistant professor in an engineering/life sciences department at an R1 university in the United States...in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic. I just wanted to reflect on some of the things I've learned in case they may be useful for future students who embark on this same journey, or perhaps for me to look back on years later and cringe at how naive I used to be. (continue reading)
The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Darrien Hunt, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain and countless other black lives have spurred an overdue conversation regarding systemic and institutionalized racism in America. As individuals in positions of leadership, as gatekeepers, as fellow human being, we must recognize our complacency in perpetuating institutionalized injustice. We must vow to do better. (continue reading)