The web gets to be more useful every day. Even if you’re not a life scientist have a look at the Bio Career Center site highlighted below. It offers all sorts of information for recent graduates from schools including Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as to participating employers.
What a great concept. [...]
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Apparently one of the participants in the newly (and sadly) resurrected TV show American Gladiators is a graduate of Cornell University. She’s Jaime Reed of the class of 2001. According to the Cornell student newspaper, this provides concrete proof that “Cornell is the only Ivy that offers a practical, real-world education.”
What more can we say?
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What was previously an almost certain ticket to economic security, an Ivy League degree can’t be depended upon as a guarantee of the good life. The current economic slowdown, complicated by the continued global restructuring of research and development activities, has caused real distress among some American college graduates. What was once primarily a problem [...]
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New to the world of work? Your expensive education has filled your brain with all kinds of information, but do you have a plan for what you’re going to do in the first three months in your new job? If you’re anything like the rest of us, the answers to those questions are probably no [...]
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Crain’s Chicago Business discusses human capital development in a recent article. Their point seems well-taken; a society’s investment in education that often (but not always–there seem to be lingering exceptions) determines the quality of their future social and economic well-being. Specific mention here is made of the benefits provided by close links with University of [...]
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If you’re thinking of applying to a highly competitive graduate school sometime soon, you probably want to read about the process in the New York Times. Apparently, the competition for attractive internships has become almost as intense as that for admissions slots, so as the article notes, the period for securing an summer 2008 internship [...]
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This is one of those cases where ever American university will take notice and change its degree verification procedures. It seems that a faculty member at a Korean university presented a forged Yale diploma to prove her credentials when she was hired. In a serious gaffe, Yale’s grad school that she was indeed a [...]
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It may have been Yogi Berra who suggested that if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know if you get there. In an article published in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Maureen Moriarity suggests setting formal goals and developing a brief written planning document for reference. The goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, [...]
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