People's instinctive travels and the paths to science

To be the recipient of the E. E. Just Award for 2014 is one of my greatest honors, as this is a truly rarefied group. In this essay, I try to trace my path to becoming a scientist to illustrate that multiple paths can lead to science. I also highlight that I did not build my career alone. Rather, I...

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Autor principal: August, Avery
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society for Cell Biology 2014
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ASCB Award Essays
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E14-06-1120
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spelling pubmed-42147702015-01-16 People's instinctive travels and the paths to science August, Avery Mol Biol Cell ASCB Award Essays To be the recipient of the E. E. Just Award for 2014 is one of my greatest honors, as this is a truly rarefied group. In this essay, I try to trace my path to becoming a scientist to illustrate that multiple paths can lead to science. I also highlight that I did not build my career alone. Rather, I had help from many and have tried to pay it forward. Finally, as the country marches toward a minority majority, I echo the comments of previous E. E. Just Award recipients on the state of underrepresented minorities in science. The American Society for Cell Biology 2014-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4214770/ /pubmed/25360046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E14-06-1120 Text en © 2014 August. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0). “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology.
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