The attractions of being a researcher at a small university
SEP 15, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024671
Science : In her latest Career Advice column, Science‘s Jacqueline Ruttimann Oberst looks at the pros and cons for young researchers of working at small universities—that is, universities whose annual R&D budgets are no more than $50 million. One of Obert’s interviewees is Alex Weiss, a physics professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. On the topic of conducting research, he’s quoted as saying
At a smaller university, professors tend to go into niches where they’re not directly competing with big groups. One can’t jump on the bandwagon since one doesn’t have the resources to beat out the MITs, Caltechs, and Cornells. You have to pick your research topics carefully.
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