A Book on Viruses and Bacterial Hosts
Update: Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts won the award for best postgraduate textbook from the Royal Society of Biology. Research grant consulting has great benefits. Reviewing and editing the proposals keeps me current in across the life sciences. In fields outside the life sciences, I serve as your colleague and …
Middle Aged and Moving Forward
What kind of life is possible after the dissertation? What kind of a career is for me outside academia? These are a couple of the important questions that arise from Jacquelyn Gill’s Blog Carnival call on What’s Your Post-PhD Story? Pieces of my post PhD story are within this website and elsewhere, but for personal …
The Honorarium: A Compensation Compromise for Grant Writers
What is an honorarium? An honorarium is a payment that says “thank you” to someone for providing a small service. A price or fee is not really set for the service rendered. Honoraria are income and taxable. Who receives an honorarium? Honoraria are very common in the academic community, especially in the sciences. Individual faculty …