Credit: Jakub Zerdzicki/Alamy In May 2024, four years into my postgraduate career, I decided that I wanted to finish my PhD by the end of 2025. The problem was that, despite working on many ongoing projects, I had not yet published a paper discussing my PhD work. My days were full and I was spending
Private firms will host US doctoral students in a scheme announced by the US National Science Foundation.Credit: Getty The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has kicked off a sweeping effort to deepen the ties between PhD students and industry. The pilot programme will provide participants with hands-on industry research experience and funding from universities, companies
International students at American academic institutions will have a maximum of four years to complete their studies unless they are granted an extension.Credit: Cheney Orr/Bloomberg/Getty Reversing a decades-old policy, the U.S. government will soon limit international students to no more than four years in the United States unless they can obtain an extension from the
To help you land a job in the industry, explain the skills you learned in the lab in terms that industry recruiters understand.Credit: Portrait/Getty I loved the intellectual challenge of my PhD and the idea that my research on immune cells in human skin could one day contribute to better patient care. But the lonely
Credit: Monty Rakusen/Getty In April, Nature published advice from PhD candidates and PhD holders who had achieved the unthinkable: doing their PhD from nine to five, more or less. In response to a follow-up survey in the Information about nature In the newsletter, 20% of 6,046 past and present doctoral students said they spent up