Since 2010, the PLOS Student Blog has served as an outlet for student scientists and postdocs to share their experiences and perspectives…
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Early Career Research Community Top 10 posts for Early Career Researchers: recognizing ‘Best of The Student Blog’
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Early Career Research Community Introducing the PLOS Early Career Researcher (ECR) Initiative and Year Two of the PLOS ECR Travel Awards Program
Between 2013 and 2014 graduate student enrollment in scientific fields increased by 5.5%, with an estimated 666,586 of these scientists and postdocs…
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The Student Blog 5 Things I Wish I Knew in Graduate School
Source: 5 Things I Wish I Knew in Graduate School By Peter Janiszewski, Ph.D Last week I had the pleasure to give…
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The Student Blog 10-28-2015 Global Health AMA Preview: Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Maternal and Newborn Health
The global health community has seen substantial reductions in deaths from “the big three” infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis; as well…
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Global Health 9-2-15 PLOS Science Wednesday AMA Preview: River blindness programs improve health outcomes: Evidence for increased prioritization of NTDs in post-2015 global health agenda
River blindness (onchocerciasis) is an onerous neglected tropical disease (NTD) and the second-leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Onchocerciasis is transmitted by…
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Academia Re-launching the PLOS Student Blog & Introducing Travel Awards!
Hi PLOS readers! My name is Sara Kassabian, and I am a Masters candidate in the Global Health Sciences program at University…