#71 - Ask a professor: how to vet applicants, deal w/ criticism, strategy in academia, & research funding

Molecular Podcasting with Darren Lipomi

0:00 How do you get your research published in high-impact journals?

2:05 Grad students and postdocs are busy. How do you vet undergraduate researchers so that they are productive and not breaking equipment?

3:56 I noticed that you had a mini MBA on your resume. How valuable do you think business training is in academia?

6:25 Can you describe ways in which criticism from your students has landed particularly heavy and changed your approach to teaching and mentoring?

9:58 What is a Venn diagram and how has your Venn diagram showing the overlap of teaching, research, and service changed over time?

11:43 Is funding between researchers distributed equitably? And what would you do to change the way science is funded?