Another PhD

My student passed his defense with flying colors today. Kudos to him on a major achievement. Now (actually following the various bureaucratic forms that must be filed) he joins the world of neuroscientists, his “union card” in hand. And yet, the challenges ahead for him, and the other newly minted science PhD’s are substantial. First to find a rewarding post-doctoral fellowship and a new mentor, and subsequently to begin to formulate scientific “independence”–something that is hard to define, but that we all know when we see it.

Jim