{"id":1155,"date":"2018-06-28T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:18:02","slug":"steps-to-a-fulfilling-career-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/2018\/06\/28\/steps-to-a-fulfilling-career-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps to a Fulfilling Career in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I have a PhD now what? How can I find out what I like? How can I get ready?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is never too late to start thinking about career plans.\u00a0Joanne Kamens&#8217;s\u00a0presentation is designed to inspire the science trainee to seek information and connections that will help chart a course for a happy and long-term career in science.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 26, 2018, 4-5pm, Location TBD<\/span><br \/>\nA talk inspiring active career questioning to choose paths related to academia or non-academia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joannekamens\/\">Joanne Kamens<\/a>,<\/strong> Executive Director of Addgene (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.addgene.org\/\">http:\/\/www.addgene.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><\/span>Founder of the Boston chapter of the Association for Women in Science<\/li>\n<li><span><\/span>Director of the Healthcare Business Women\u2019s Boston Group Mentoring Program<\/li>\n<li><span><\/span>Featured in MassBio newsletter, \u201cJoanne Kamens Creates Culture of Diversity &amp; Inclusion at Addgene\u201d<\/li>\n<li><span><\/span>Recipient of the 2010 Catalyst Award from the Science Club for Girls<\/li>\n<li><span><\/span>Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ph.D., Genetics, Harvard University<br \/>\nB.A., Biology, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is never too late to start thinking about career plans. Get inspired byJoanne Kamens&#8217;s presentation on September 26, 2018 to seek information and connections that will help chart a course for a happy and long-term career in science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7071,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/7071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}