Have you ever wondered what your advisor struggled with as a graduate student? What they struggle with now? Growing up in Science is a conversation series featuring personal narratives of becoming and being a scientist.
Growing up in Science was started in 2014 at New York University by professors Wei Ji Ma and Cristina Alberini, and is now worldwide.This article describes the origin and impact of the series. At a typical Growing up in Science event, one faculty member shares their life story, with a focus on struggles, failures, doubts, detours, and weaknesses. Common topics include dealing with expectations, impostor syndrome, procrastination, luck, rejection, conflicts with advisors, and work-life balance, but these topics are always embedded in the speaker's broader narrative.
Join us for a conversation about the human factors that are universal undercurrents of working in academia but that too often remain unspoken.
Erin Rich is an Associate Professor in the Center for Neural Science at NYU. She earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University, and MD and PhD in Neuroscience as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her doctoral thesis focused on the role of rodent frontal cortex in…
Pablo Ripollés is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Music Technology at New York University (NYU), where he leads the Ripollés Lab. He holds dual engineering degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications from the University of Valencia, where he graduated as the top student in his cohort. He later earned a master’s degree…
Dr. Eric Knowles received his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from Cornell University. As an undergraduate, he became interested in how humans represent different kinds of categories and assisted Dr. Frank Keil in research on conceptual development. Knowles then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where his advisor was…