Career Advice

Trying to balance your own academic and career desires with family responsibilities can invoke feelings of confusion, anxiety and guilt, write Natalie Lundsteen and Arnaldo Diaz Vazquez.

We must build diverse applicant pipelines and inclusive support systems that help students at minority-serving institutions gain access to such opportunities, writes Melanie Meinzer.

Marta Gabryelska and Sarah Wettstadt explore how it can help strengthen your impact, increase your citations, expand your funding opportunities and provide various other benefits.

Mindfulness can be an off-putting concept for some instructors, but it offers an opportunity to truly connect with students as they access knowledge and express their ideas, argues Irina Popescu.

Doug Hesse explores the Wordle phenomenon and why people play language games, including the fundamental one of writing.

Instituting the first rule of improvisation can set the stage for not only a more positive work culture but also important social change, write Michael Paul Nelson and Thomas H. DeLuca.

Zoom conferences have advantages, but when Robert Franciosi attended a small regional meeting in person, he reveled in the engagement, and the pandemic-shrouded world momentarily receded.

Among numerous other lessons, Ali Carr-Chellman found that working on one, like learning to lead, requires attempting various approaches: trying, failing, trying again and seeing what works.