In this conversation, Luisa Maffi, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1994), a pioneering voice for Biocultural Diversity shares her career path and experiences with Nishanth Gurav, SEB Student committee member. How do you identify yourself and your work in the academic or research field, do you think it's a need of the hour and why? Well, I... Continue Reading →
By Matthew Bond, SEB At-large Student Committee Member, Botany PhD from the University of Hawai'i. ~3,000 words, 20 minute reading time. Are you interested in career opportunities outside of academia? SEB Member Grady Zuiderveen is currently working for the U.S. Forest Service while completing a prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF). To learn more about PMF, we... Continue Reading →
By Susanne Masters, who is working on PhD research at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, writes articles for assorted publications, and taught a Calderwood Seminar on public writing at Bard College this spring. Extending an invitation to the realm of science or getting a paycheck for writing. Either of these motivations or others might lead a scientist... Continue Reading →
By Matthew Bond, SEB At-large Student Committee Member, Botany PhD from the University of Hawai'i. As a student, people always want to know what I'm going to do after I'm done with university. When I started my PhD, I thought that the only possible jobs were in academia, research, and teaching. However, only 23-30% of social... Continue Reading →
I (Danielle Cicka) had the honor and pleasure to sit down with Dr. Myles Axton, Chief Editor of Nature Genetics, for the SEB student blog to give students a sense of what a career as an editor looks like and in this discussion, he also touches upon the publishing of interdisciplinary subjects such as botany.... Continue Reading →
Society for Ethnobotany // Student Blog 