The sisterhood of the traveling monitor

成果类型:
Editorial Material
署名作者:
Pena, Alexis N.
署名单位:
United States Department of Energy (DOE); Argonne National Laboratory
刊物名称:
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN:
0036-9406
DOI:
10.1126/science.adp2662
发表日期:
2024-03-22
页码:
1382-1382
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摘要:
I was 3 years into my Ph.D., yet I still felt in the dark. I was doing what I could to move my research projects forward, but I did not see how my incremental progress would culminate in a degree. I did not see the light at the end of the tunnel, I did not have a plan. Frankly, I could not fathom how or when I would graduate. To add to my angst, a key mentor-Erika Moore, the only other Black woman in the lab at the time-was finishing up her appointment as a postdoctoral fellow and moving on to start her own research group. As she was clearing out her lab space, she offered a gift: her computer monitor. This kind, seemingly minute gesture turned out to be exactly the lifeline I needed.