Tag: PhD

Cornell to Berkeley to Madison: my next two years

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I have exciting news about my future: I can officially announce that I will be starting a postdoc in Mary Firestone‘s lab at the University of California-Berkeley this September, after which I will become a tenure-track assistant professor of soil ecology in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2016! I am so excited …

My Final Crop and Soil Science Seminar

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I gave my “defence” seminar this Thursday. In our department, you give one seminar before your qualifying (“A”) exam, and one before your defence (“B exam”). Sometimes the exit seminar is quite separated from the actual date of your defence. Mine was May 1, but I’ll be handing in my dissertation on May 12 (9 …