Carolyn Bertozzi: Nobel Prize Conversations
Nobel Prize Conversations
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The Importance of Student Mentorship
In retrospect, you're probably right that it was a problem that didn't need to be solved as long as I acted confident in my ability to supervise myself and two other students with me. But today in the year 2023, this probably wouldn't go down the same way. You can't have students working in labs with no safety oversight. There's liability issues that we didn't care so much about back in the late 1980s and early 90s. And also just mentorship. Now I think there's a lot more attention paid to the infrastructure for student mentorship and for student experiences where once you joined a lab, nobody cared about you anymore except your advisor.
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