/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2009-11-18T09:36:02-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/18/ill_get_right_on_that_for_you_professor.php I was going over some thermodynamics the other day, and it hit me that this was just the sort of thing I always tried to avoid when I was actually taking chemistry courses in college and grad school. And here... 74147@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2009-11-18T09:36:02-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/06/10/random_questions_answered_randomly.php I had some requests to answer my own "Random Questions" from the other day, so here goes: 1. Does it bother you, or by contrast make you a bit proud, when you tell someone that you're a chemist and (as... 73922@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2009-06-10T07:25:56-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/01/23/the_real_hazards_of_the_lab.php A run of bad accident news today, and all of the same kind. The Chemistry Blog has the story of a fatality in the labs at UCLA. The short and painful details are: inexperienced student, t-butyllithium, flammable clothing, and panic... 73698@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Chemical News 2009-01-23T10:36:04-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/10/28/out_the_door_and_down_the_stairs.php I’ve noticed over the years that my patience in seminars and talks has been eroding. This started in graduate school – I certainly sat through my share of lousy talks back then, but I was starting to skip out on... 73596@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life in the Drug Labs 2008-10-28T07:24:07-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/09/22/more_than_this.php Science is taking a look at the 1991 members of Yale’s Molecular Biology and Biophysics PhD program. The ostensible focus of the article is to see what the effect of flat federal research funding has been on young potential faculty... 73546@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Academia (vs. Industry) 2008-09-22T07:24:39-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/08/25/how_not_to_do_it_water_aspirators.php You need access to vacuum if you’re going to work at the bench in chemistry. In fact, you need more than one kind. Reasonably hard vacuum (well, by our standards, which is laughable by the standards of the physicists) is... 73513@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How Not to Do It 2008-08-25T07:19:55-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/12/19/scrape_off_some_attitude.php There is a pecking order in chemistry. That’s because there’s one everywhere. If it’s a human endeavor, staffed by humans, you’re going to have hierarchies, real and perceived - who you did a post-doc with, what huge company you're a... 72958@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-12-19T06:56:37-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/11/20/and_it_goes_like_this.php I had a hard drive failure the other day, which naturally got me to thinking about backing up data, and about the times I’ve been more paranoid about it. I wrote my PhD dissertation back in those far-off days (1988)... 72880@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-11-20T09:13:08-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/25/looking_backwards.php A colleague reminded me the other day of a project that he and I had worked on back at the Wonder Drug Factory seven years ago. "Seven years ago", I thought. . .I was the project leader on that one,... 72807@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-10-25T21:03:20-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/10/18/understanding_dawns.php My graduate school lab, like most of them, had an assortment of people from different countries. That kept things at all sorts of hours, since we’d get the occasional Japanese post-doc who never really seemed to get off JST and... 72788@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-10-18T21:36:06-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/08/26/cheer_up.php This is the first post from the new Blogging Room of Stately Lowe Manor here in Massachusetts. The internet is hooked up, the lights are on, and I'm surrounded by boxes no matter where I turn. I had a few... 72644@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-08-26T20:59:45-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/08/23/_jobs_that_dont_exist.php The FASEB folks have collected a large amount of data on training and employment in the life sciences (start here), and see the discussions over here at the AAAS). Many of the conclusions are not going to surprise people, but... 72622@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ How To Get a Pharma Job 2007-08-23T07:25:27-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/08/13/pilferage.php One of the comments to my brief post earlier today brought back some memories. Back in graduate school, we were a comparatively well-off group. That is, we graduate students lived off grant money after our first year - no more... 72595@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-08-13T20:26:18-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/04/17/the_doctorate_and_its_discontents.php The doctorate-or-not discussion is roaring along in the comments to the last post, and they're well worth reading. I have a few more thoughts on the subject myself, but I'm going to turn off comments to this post and ask... 72223@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Graduate School 2007-04-17T11:15:17-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2007/04/15/doctorate_or_not.php There's been a lively discussion in the comments thread to this post about the differences between hiring PhD and associate-level chemists. Anyone who's interested in the topic should have a look, because there are a number of issues in play:... 72217@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life in the Drug Labs 2007-04-15T20:26:53-05:00