The Young Scientist Program at Washington University is an amazing program. Founded in 1991, the Young Scientist Program (YSP) is designed to attract high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds into scientific careers through activities emphasizing hands-on research and individualized contact between young people and active scientists. In addition, the YSP targets St. Louis City Public [...]
Entries Tagged as 'PhD'
WU Young Scientist Program: a great opportunity!
September 17th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:education, helpful, interesting, lab life, PhD, research, science, Washington University
Do you REALLY need a PhD to be a scientist?
March 3rd, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Read about this topic in an article published in Nature today: Do scientists really need a PhD? p7 Young scientists at a Chinese genomics institute are foregoing conventional postgraduate training for the chance to be part of major scientific initiatives. Is this the way of the future? doi:10.1038/464007a FULL TEXT | PDF
MyNCBI Enhancements
May 30th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Anybody who has taken one of my classes knows how much I like MyNCBI. With My NCBI you can save searches and data important to you, and you can set your preferences for NCBI’s tools and web site. –MyNCBI Website One of the easiest things to do is set preferences in MyNCBI to search PubMed for [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, gene, helpful, Information, NCBI, PhD, resources, sequence, tool, tutorial
