How Universities Can Help STEM Students Succeed

0000-0002-8715-2896Source: How Universities Can Help STEM Students Succeed Photo by John Phelan   Across the country, millions of students will be filling the lecture halls of introductory science and engineering courses, many of them eager

Science By Donation: Tips for successful research crowdfunding

Kids playing road hockey By Spacing Magazine, http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacing/2126966039/Source: Science By Donation: Tips for successful research crowdfunding   What does it take to get ordinary people to fund your science? This is the third in a series of posts that will explore the

Four PLOS authors receive 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Breakthrough-trophy-200x300Publishing in Open Access journals is not only ethically rewarding, it also can be financially rewarding. Through the Breakthrough Prize – initiated and funded in 2012 by Bay Area biotechnology innovators, social media venture capitalists

The Decade of the Connectome: An Interview with Connectomics Founder Olaf Sporns

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By Micah Allen This post marks the first of my new interview series “Connecting the Dots: Big Thinkers in Cognitive Neuroscience”. Last month marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark paper that launched “connectomics”, overthrowing

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