Category Archives: Doctoral Instruction

Equipping students to deal with uncertainty

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Stephanie Krueger

Many in the educational sector, including myself, have contemplated the value of the information we’re imparting on students over the past year. As we migrated to primarily online settings in many places, we had to revisit curricular ideas, course formats … Continue reading →

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Dr. Thorsten Beck on Image Manipulation Research at Humboldt

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

New video featuring Dr. Thorsten Beck and image manipulation research at the HEADT Centre — Humboldt-Elsevier Advanced Data and Text Centre. I will use this video in my next doctoral student ethics course.  

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ERC Starting Grant Problematics

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

A thoughful commentary from Dr. Michael J. Bojdys regarding ERC starting grants and doctoral/postdoc education in the Czech context: Reformists in the Czech Republic are asking for help and legitimacy….One way would be by empowering Czech universities in a ‘Czech … Continue reading →

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In Memorium, Ben Barres (1955-2017)

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

An elegant tribute to close mentorship and gender equality advocate Ben Barres, neurobiologist. Excerpt: Barres devoted much of his last decade to publicly describing the challenges he had faced as a woman in science, and offering ways to correct a … Continue reading →

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Semester in Full Swing

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Stephanie Krueger

In my first classes of this semester, with doctoral/post-doctoral students from a variety of STEM disciplines, I began by asking them questions instead of simply lecturing, including  provocative questions (Why isn’t there a global online library? Does it matter?). The … Continue reading →

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