You grow up learning about the different career choices that you can have. There’s the usual – fireman, police officer, or doctor…
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The Student Blog Research: not a job, but a lifestyleRead more
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The Student Blog Announcing Touch Me – a BSR event exploring the fascinating world of touch, on October 27thRead more
Imagine the first organisms that ever existed. Single-celled, incredibly simple, skirting about in whatever primordial ooze they found themselves in. Those little…
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The Student Blog Astrophysics Through a Student’s EyesRead more
At some point in our childhoods, most of us idolized astronauts, pasted glow-in-the-dark stars to our ceilings, or delighted in imagining a…
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The Student Blog Digesting The PastRead more
This article is being cross-listed on The Berkeley Science Review. Check out some other really interesting pieces there! A few weeks ago, I…
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The Student Blog Schoolhouse Block: Science Students and the Government ShutdownRead more
This post includes information gathered by Student Bloggers: Katrina Magno, Rachel Cotton, Jane Hu, and Anna Goldstein, as well as from PLOS…
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The Student Blog Science needs heroes and a wonderful teamRead more
Science needs a cocktail of humor, simplicity and bunch of exciting results to take it down the gut by non-scientific audience. Science…
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The Student Blog Zombie Nouns and Alzheimer Flowers: Challenges in Reading Academic ScienceRead more
In 16 years of school, I have cried only once over academics. Say what you will about low blood sugar, flu recovery…
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Access Science shouldn’t be a luxury ; Knowledge shouldn’t be a commodityRead more
Five years ago, I competed in my very first science fair. At the time, I was a tiny 6th grader, who…
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The Student Blog The Undergraduate Research Experience: MentorshipRead more
Most students enter college uncertain about what they want to do in the future, making the undergraduate years a time ripe with…
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The Student Blog Building a Network: Tips for Non-Engineering MajorsRead more
The fall of each school year brings hundreds of companies and thousands of students to the annual career fair. Our campus floods…
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The Student Blog I switched research groups – and lived to tell the taleRead more
This guest post from UC Berkeley PhD student Anna Goldstein is also posted on Berkeley Science Review. It’s that time of year…
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The Student Blog STEM the Tide and Keep Students in ScienceRead more
It’s no secret that Americans are a particularly patriotic group. Many of us proudly hang American flags from our homes, root fiercely…