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
the problem Dear Nature, I’m a PhD student whose research involves euthanizing healthy mice, usually via cervical dislocation, which basically means breaking the animals’ necks as quickly and painlessly as possible. I love my field and knew that working with animals would be part of my job when I started my PhD. I try to
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the world in February 2020, Linda Guamán, a microbiologist at the UTE University of Quito, was ready to serve her country. Ecuador announced its first case on February 29 and the disease spread rapidly. Guayaquil, the country’s largest city, was especially hard hit. Hospitals, funeral homes and mortuaries
Qingdao rail manufacturer CRRC Sifang Rolling Stock worked with a Chinese doctoral student to improve manufacturing techniques for its Cetrovo subway trains.Credit: Zhang Jingang/China Report/Future Publishing via Getty For most graduate students, a written thesis is a requirement to complete their studies. But in China, a law passed in 2024 allows some people to graduate
Ryan Rising began taking college courses while in prison and is now pursuing a doctorate focused on how best to help formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society.Credit: Courtesy of Cynthia Mia of Lovely Hues Photography Ryan Rising was first imprisoned when he was 12 years old and was known for being a troublemaker. The label
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