A summer fellowship at theLSI prepares Michigan under grads for the next leg of their STEM journey. This piece was written for UMich’s 2022 magazine. Read the full thing here! Jacquelyn Roberts knows firsthand the power of authentic research opportunities for young scientists. “It only takes a single experience to start building your research career,”…
To coincide with the OpenCon London satellite event on 21st November, Know-Center, Digital Science and ScienceOpen are excited to team up with Authorea to announce an essay competition for short blog posts on this year’s Open Access Week theme of “Open in order to …”. This theme is an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly research outputs…
Competition has its worth: it can provide significant motivation to work late in order to generate enough data to have your paper be first rather than a replicate study. The desire to ‘one-up’ a competitor’s lab can lead to researchers designing novel methods to study the system in question. It is not without its drawbacks…
Cancer is one of the biggest threats to a long and healthy life, accounting for approximately one in four American deaths. It is a disease that is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth leading to tumors and shutting down of biological processes. These issues arise from mutations in the genome that accumulate over time and can…
