Collectively, we are living through a global pandemic. Personally, each of us may be responding very differently to this collective experience. Given your personality and preferences, how are you coping? Is this very different than a person you are sheltering in place with?  Your partner, roommates, parents, and child(ren) may be having different responses and reactions to your own. How then can these differences be reconciled within the same quarantined household? Some of the main differences seem to be between extroverts and introverts. At the beginning of the quarantine, there were many memes circulating around the internet proclaiming that introverts forced to stay at home felt like they were finally…

Did you miss the Career Symposium this past Friday? Don’t fret! All of the events and panels were virtual and are still available online at our OITE YouTube Channel. Here is an overview of what to check out: Faculty Careers: An Introduction to Academia Dimitra Bourboulia, PhD, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Assistant Professor David Sharlin, PhD, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Associate Professor Kerry Smith, PhD, Clemson University, Professor and Director of EPIC Tracie Delgado, PhD, Seattle Pacific University, Associate Professor Industry Research and Development Careers   Dennise A. De Jesús Díaz, PhD, Remedy Plan Therapeutics, VP Scientific Operations Samantha Yost, PhD, ReGenEx Bio, Scientist-Research and Early Development Catherine Nezich, PhD, Biogen, Scientist…

COVID-19 has already had a large impact on the job market; the full extent of this impact will continue to unfold day by day and month by month; and it will likely be much more evident in certain sectors first and foremost. The hospitality, service, and food industries are currently taking a huge hit and the unemployment numbers are staggering. Within a month, the last decade of job gains has been wiped out.  These are not necessarily sectors where NIH trainees tend to land; however, a compressed job market tends to have a ripple effect making this very stressful for any job searcher.  If you have been actively job searching,…