Christina Szalinski

How to maximize your start-up package as a new assistant professor

October 7, 2016
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For postdoctoral researchers wanting to pursue academic research, the first real and dream job after doing years of bench work…

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Peer mentoring as a scientific researcher

September 9, 2016
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Learning and teaching during postdoctoral training is an important aspect of academic research. Obtaining advice from peers on research and…

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Graduate Student Teaching: What Cell Biology and Statistics Have in Common

August 12, 2016
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Most career paths in academia will at some point require teaching responsibilities. Expectations vary in terms of teaching responsibilities between…

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Why do we still need an Association for Women in Science? An Interview with Isabel C. Escobar

July 27, 2016
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The need for strong female leaders in STEM According to a 2011 U.S. Department of Commerce report, only one in…

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Women in STEM: Still So Few and Far Between

July 22, 2016
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The environment of women in STEM According to a 2014 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report, women make up 47…

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“People in this country have had enough of experts”: How Brexit Could Affect Scientists in the UK

July 12, 2016
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Five years ago, I was in Lille, France, on a two-month sabbatical from my UK PhD program. The sabbatical was…

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Reassessing postdoctoral needs—an NPA Advocacy Committee Survey

February 19, 2016
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NIH and NSF define a postdoc as “an individual who has received a doctoral degree (or equivalent) and is engaged…

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From the Autism Spectrum to Australia, ASCB Outreach Grants Fund Innovative Science Outreach Programs

February 11, 2016
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  There were 12 high school students in all, half with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), at a three-day intensive science…

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Outreach Grants Will Promote Basic Science from Galway to San Quentin Prison

September 25, 2014

Inmate-college students at San Quentin Prison will soon have microscopes for their biology lab through an ASCB Outreach Grant, offered by…

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