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On External Research Opportunities
Spending the summer months garnering external lab experience as an intern or research assistant can be a valuable undertaking for undergraduates in pursuit of graduate school admission. Especially for students from smaller colleges and universities
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How to Do Your Best Work and Succeed in a University Faculty Position
There are many challenges that university faculty, especially junior faculty, face on the job that keep them from doing their very best creative scholarly work — the work that lured us into this career in
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How to Write a Research Statement
Task #1: Understand the Purpose of the Research Statement The primary mistake people make when writing a research statement is that they fail to appreciate its purpose. The purpose isn’t simply to list and briefly
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Entwining Teaching and Research: Creating a Collaborative Review Paper
Two of the many shared goals professors and graduate students have are (a) taking and teaching courses that are integrated with our research and (b) contributing to the field through publications. At the University of
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Not So Lazy Days: Psychology Summer Institutes
This year I was fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in the Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISPP), one of the many summer institutes in psychology that have emerged in recent years.
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Don’t waste your time: The best and worst study techniques
The Journal News: Are you highlighter happy? If so, you can blame that B- on the bright fluorescent pink, yellow and greens lines running through your textbooks. When it comes to study techniques, highlighters, mnemonics
