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Physics PhD student perspectives on the importance and difficulty of finding a research group
Mike Verostek, Casey W. Miller, Benjamin M. Zwickl
Joining a research group is one of the most important events on a graduate student's path to becoming an independent physics researcher and earning a PhD. However, graduate student…
Inequities and misaligned expectations in PhD students' search for a research group
Mike Verostek, Casey W. Miller, Benjamin M. Zwickl
Joining a research group is one of the most important events on a graduate student's path to earning a PhD, but the ways students go about searching for a group remain largely unst…
Analyzing Physics Majors' Specialization Low Interest Using Social Cognitive Career Theory
Dina Zohrabi Alaee, Keegan Shea Tonry, Benjamin M. Zwickl
As students pursue a bachelor's degree in physics, they may ponder over which area to specialize in, such as theory, computation, or experiment. Often students develop preferences…
Beyond The Big Bang Theory: Revealing the everyday research lives of theoretical physics faculty
Mike Verostek, Molly Griston, Jesus Botello +1
"So what do you do? I mean, what do you actually do?" This is one of the most common questions one theoretical physicist receives from her students, and is representative of a comm…