Prospectives

If you are interested in joining our lab, contact Heather Reynolds.

Mentoring Style

My style is facilitative and collaborative. My goal as a mentor is to assist students in developing their research, teaching, and outreach interests and expertise, and in finding the career or life path that makes them happy and allows them to do good work in the world.

There are many excellent (and sometimes hilarious) guides to graduate school, job searching, teaching, and careers. Some favorites are listed below, with the caveat that no one source is perfect or provides all the answers. For further reading, see colleague Spencer Hall's exhaustively magnificent list of graduate student resources on his lab webpage at: http://www.indiana.edu/~halllab/

Graduate School

  • Stearns SC. 1987. Some modest advice for graduate students. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 68:145-150.
  • Huey RB. 1987. Reply to Stearns: some acynical advice for graduate students. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 68: 150-153.
  • Dermer ML. 1993. An insider's guide to choosing a graduate advisor and research projects in laboratory sciences. Journal of Chemical Education 70:303-306 (a version can be found at: http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/grad-stu.html)

Writing, proposals

  • Lertzman K. 1995. Notes on writing theses and papers. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 76:86-90.
  • Schimel J. 2012. Writing science. How to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded. Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY.

Teaching

  • Boice R. 1996. First-order principles for college teachers. Ten basic ways to improve the teaching process. Anker Publishing Company, Inc., Bolton, MA.
  • Palmer PJ. 1998. The courage to teach. Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.

Postdocs, Job search, Careers

  • Holden, C. 1999. Eight attributes of highly successful postdocs. Science 285:1527-1529.
  • Jeffers S. 1987. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Fawcett Columbine, New York.
  • Job quest in ecology and evolution
  • Fiske PS. 2001. Put your science to work. The take-charge career guide for scientists. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.