Vitamin PhD Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Paul "Hutch" Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer at the Questrom School of Business, about working effectively on a team.

Send us Fan Mail This week we spoke with Susanna Harris, founder and CEO of PhD Balance, a project designed for graduate students to empower academics during and after Grad School. We discuss mental health and various resources a graduate student can use to improve their overall wellness. Susanna can be found on Instagram and Twitter at @susannalharris PhD Balance can be found at @PhD_Balance and...

Send us Fan Mail This week we spoke to Dr. Sarah Hokanson, the Assistant Provost for Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs at Boston University about how she navigated we way from research in Biology and Molecular Biophysics to a diverse position in higher education administration.  Sarah is responsible for postdoctoral affairs, professional development programming and resources for do...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we speak with Mr. Doug Edwards, Assistant Director of Career Education at BU's Center for Career Development. We discuss interview best practices for doctoral students.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk with Dr. L. Maren Wood, co-founder of Beyond the Professoriate, about how Beyond the Professoriate got its start, how it's changed over time, and what it's like being a CEO. Show notes: Beyond the Professoriate NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates “An Examination of the Changing Faculty” by Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, & Judith Eaton

Send us Fan Mail Recorded live from the 2019 Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) Conference, this short episode explores strategies for navigating conferences.  Co-hosts Rachel Stumpf and Sarah Chobot Hokanson from Boston University provide an introduction to the Vitamin PhD podcast and offer some quick tips for better conferencing.