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Starting a PhD in Melbourne, Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
As part of my blog, I aim to share many voices from other PhD students. As my first guest blogger, I asked Shakira Milton to share her story about starting her PhD in Australia during the pandemic. Shakira is a PhD Candidate at the University of M...
Post · September 07, 2021
8 lessons I learnt during my PhD
I finally defended my Ph.D. in front of a computer screen -- far from what I imagined when I embarked on this journey back in 2015 -- on July 29, 2021! As I ruminate back through this incredibly rewarding journey, I have condensed my experiences, ...
Post · September 06, 2021
DCOTSS 2021 summer deployment begins
DCOTSS field activities begin in Salina, Kansas. One of the mains goals will be to make in-situ measurements of air plumes in the stratosphere that has been influenced by deep convection. There will be around 85 hours of total flight time distribu...
Post · September 01, 2021
Read, Read, Think, Write, and Read.
When I was working at EVMS I told my supervisor that I wish we had the time to start our day with two hours of just reading the scientific literature. This way we could keep up with the new literature as well as explore new ideas for our research ...
Post · August 31, 2021
4 important lessons I learnt in Graduate School that I wish I knew sooner
Graduate school is considered one of the most challenging and defining times of your life. It is the time of your early to mid-twenties that you devote yourself to the pursuit of knowledge with a dream of having a better future or changing the...
Post · August 29, 2021
"Voices" in the Blue Doors Magazine of the Nightingale-Bamford School
This was the full text I submitted, and pictured below is what was abridged and published and shared with the Nightingale-Bamford community.
To do science is to first know what question you want to ask. There is (quite literally) an entire unive...
Post · August 24, 2021
In the Wellesley Daily Shot: "Lucia Perez ’14, Fulbright Student Research Fellowship"
"Lucia Perez ’14 recently completed a Fulbright Student Research Fellowship that didn’t go exactly as planned but lead to some deep insights about how to make communities, and perhaps the world, a little stronger and more connected. Perez, now a P...
Post · August 24, 2021
Starting a New Journey with a White Coat!
By the end of high school, people expect you to start figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life. But how can you decide your career if you haven’t had any experience in that career field yet? In college, I dreamed of becoming a p...
Post · August 24, 2021
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