Soft Skills: An Important Asset Acquired from Organizing Regional Student Group Activities

Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computatio...

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Autores principales: de Ridder, Jeroen, Meysman, Pieter, Oluwagbemi, Olugbenga, Abeel, Thomas
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24992198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003708
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description Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes interferes with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. However, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular activities more than worth it. In this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills.
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spelling pubmed-40809952014-07-22 Soft Skills: An Important Asset Acquired from Organizing Regional Student Group Activities de Ridder, Jeroen Meysman, Pieter Oluwagbemi, Olugbenga Abeel, Thomas PLoS Comput Biol Message from ISCB Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes interferes with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. However, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular activities more than worth it. In this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills. Public Library of Science 2014-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4080995/ /pubmed/24992198 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003708 Text en © 2014 de Ridder et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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