I was born in South Vietnam a few years before the end of the Vietnam War. My memories of childhood were mostly about what happened after the war—it was a hard time, just to put it lightly! I lived with my parents and siblings in a small rice-farming village in the Mekong delta, which used to serve the people there well until everything was taken away in an attempt to advance the post-warMarxis...

VOLUME 6 • ISSUE 4 WWW.CTSJOURNAL.COM T he University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) has served as a hub of multidisciplinary expertise in both research mentor and mentee training and evaluation, with long-standing, federally funded eff orts to support innovative practice, training interventions, and research to improve training programs for diverse scholars in science, technology, engineering, math...

15.1 Members Takemasa Miyoshi (Team Leader) Koji Terasaki (Research Scientist) Shigenori Otsuka (Postdoctoral Researcher) Keiichi Kondo (Postdoctoral Researcher) Shunji Kotsuki (Postdoctoral Researcher) Guo-Yuan Lien (Postdoctoral Researcher) Takumi Honda (Postdoctoral Researcher) Yasumitsu Maejima (Research Associate) Africa Perianez Santiago (Research Associate) Hazuki Arakida (Technical Staf...

for training the next generation of scientists? Career paths and scientific training in the United States probably need to evolve to meet current challenges. It is generally agreed that alternative (nonacademic) careers in science should be bolstered, but graduate school and postdoctoral training are getting longer as the bar for achieving a ‘successful story’ for publication becomes ever highe...