Posts Tagged ‘academia’
Partnerships
“As a leader you’re not there to tell people what to do. You’re there to support them succeeding at what they already can do best or helping them learn to do something better.”
Read MoreMaking spaces for varied voices
“It’s easy to be satisfied with incremental change when the incremental change is not affecting you.”
Read MoreLoud, critical, ambitious: sexism in science
” I have to be able to be on my toes and defend all of the work that my team has done, and yet if I question any of the work any of the other teams have done, immediately I’m called in the office.”
Read MoreGrad school files
“I thought environmental science was a really good way to connect people’s problems and Earth’s problems and learn about the physical world yet the social science world, too.”
Read MoreEngineering healthy early-career boundaries
“A lot of the male engineers were invited to go out golfing, and shooting, and I was never invited to do those things even though I was also an engineer and actually a pretty great shot.”
Read MoreUneven ground: permafrost thaw and burnout
“The more positive side of people’s brains would say oh, no, no, no, these are learning opportunities or whatever, but at some point it’s actually just failure.”
Read MoreA day in the life of a university scientist
“There’s a culture here of women, working moms, who are wanting to, outdoing each other, like, ‘Well I put the baby down at 8 but I still had to stay up until 2 in the morning to finish this grant.'”
Read MoreReflecting after a Commencement handshake
“We currently are the world leader in Arctic research. No other university, and really no other federal government around the world, does more research on the Arctic than University of Alaska Fairbanks.”
Read MoreBringing global experiences back home
“We were in Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, when they were being bombed. And all we had to eat for like six weeks straight was kasha, buckwheat.”
Read MoreAn average field season, other than meeting the spouse
“Their formal role in this is to make sure I don’t die and my role is to make sure they experience a different part of the world that they wouldn’t get to otherwise.”
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