Squirrels are often considered menaces. They make mad dashes across busy roads, antagonize our canine friends, and steal from fruit trees in people’s gardens. Colleges across the country seem to be overrun by them. A recent study in the Journal of Mammalogy evidences that 95 percent of college campuses in North America report at least
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Dear applicants for academic positions, Writing an academic application is one of the most consequential acts of your career as a scientist. Unless the hiring committee knows you, your work, or your supervisor/collaborators, a good application is the best way to be considered for a position. However, writing an application is a daunting task, which
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This post is co-authored by Kelsey DeFrates and Katerina Malollari. When we decided to attend graduate school, we envisioned ourselves hunched over the laboratory bench, poised in front of sophisticated equipment, and knee deep in data. What we did not anticipate, however, was to be banished to our homes and forced to abandon our cell
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This article is part of STEMinism in the Spotlight, a monthly interview series. Khalilah Beal-Uribe is a lecturer in UC Berkeley’s Department of Mathematics and a math professor at College of Alameda. After graduating with her BA from Howard University, Dr. Beal-Uribe earned her PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. She first started teaching courses
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