“It was time to create the community we’ve been missing.” Dr. Ari Kozik, co-lead organizer of #BlackInMicro week Dr. Ariangela…
Becoming a mom in a pandemic? Advocate for yourself and ask for help.
As a scientist, I love planning meticulously for everything, and the arrival of my baby was no different. By January, my husband and I had a plan; I knew what to expect, and my parents would visit to help me during postpartum recovery and to take care of our newborn. We were all set and were looking forward to the arrival of our little one. Like all well-laid plans, disaster struck in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic…
I wonder where my wonder went.
the deeper I get into my Ph.D., the more I feel the wonder that brought me here fading. I feel a sense of loss, like I’m scraping the bottom of what once seemed like a bottomless barrel of curiosity. Perhaps it’s no coincidence this has happened near the end of my third year. Many Ph.D. students talk about the “third-year slump,” a time when nothing seems to work and everyone becomes just a little more bitter. Third year is the Wednesday of the graduate school experience…
AWIS-UM stands in solidarity with members of our Black community
To all our members, AWIS-UM stands in solidarity with Black members of our community. We must end the violence against…
Rethinking parental leave policies during the shift to working from home in COVID-19
Have a story of academia in quarantine to share? Email us! Modern research tells us that the hormonal changes that…
I’m young, fit, and healthy. I got COVID-19.
I spent the Ides of March on the toilet. That’s probably not the first sentence you were expecting to see…
Tackling self-doubt and toddlers as a post-doc working at home
Email us if you have a quarantine/working-from-home story to share! It’s 7 a.m., barely light outside, and I am being…
Parenting and postdoc-ing during a pandemic
Email michiganawis.comm@gmail.com is you have a pandemic story to share! I emerged from my (newly-rearranged) home office on Day 25…
Complex systemic shortcomings, not individual failures, are at the root of graduate school hardships
Choosing to pursue a Ph.D. for prestige is not an option for many people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and suggesting ‘prestige…
PI Interview: Dr. Sierra Petersen
Dr. Sierra Petersen is a tenure-track assistant professor and geochemist/paleoclimatologist in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and she…
