Happy New Year! As we say hello to 2014, I want to take a chance to look at some of the fantastic…
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The Student Blog Happy New Year from the Student Blog!Read more
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The Student Blog The Infinite Classroom: An Ode to Student-Led Classes in ScienceRead more
Science education in schools has a flaw: Large lectures are by definition impersonal, and they often leave out the larger context of…
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The Student Blog We need to check our work: Rethinking replication and publishingRead more
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but…
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The Student Blog An Ode to Patch ClampingRead more
I’ve been a graduate student in bioengineering for quite a while now—let’s call it “more than five years”—but I harbor a far…
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The Student Blog What do PLOS and Lady Gaga have in common?Read more
What do PLOS and Lady Gaga have in common? Nothing really…unless you count this video parody from some grad students at the…
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The Student Blog JOURNYS: a leading high school science journal. A note from the Editor in ChiefRead more
Hello World! My name is Sarah Bhattacharjee, and I am the Editor-in-Chief of JOURNYS. the Journal of Youths in Science. Two times…
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Stress Science of Stress – Berkeley Scientific Journal’s Fall 2013 IssueRead more
This post is cross-posted with Berkeley Scientific Journal Twice each year, Berkeley Scientific publishes undergraduate research, interviews with distinguished Cal faculty, and feature…
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The Student Blog Bridging the Gap Between Science and Design: Biologically Inspired DesignRead more
Being from a very different background than my fellow bloggers, it can be a challenge to find a topic to write about…
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The Student Blog Making the Silent Heard and the Obscure Tangible: Black Hole CoalescenceRead more
In this vast Universe we cannot begin to comprehend the amount of entities within it or the amount of which we do…
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The Student Blog Translational Research vs. Basic Science: Comparing Apples to Upside-down ApplesRead more
“Translational research” has become an extremely popular buzzword in the world of biomedical research lately. Basically translational research aims to “translate&rdquo…
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The Student Blog You Have Evolved From Worm to Man…Read more
Whenever I begin to explain to somebody that I conduct research using worms, I am met with the same confused stare. I…
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The Student Blog Tumbling Through the Void: Navigating the Grad School Gap YearRead more
It’s 2:30 AM. I lay awake drenched in sweat, stress and uncertainty. Thoughts like “what am I doing with my life?” or…