The mum, Meredith Hooper, is an academic and an author; her work includes books for children and nonfiction about Antarctica, where she is headed next for a months-long research stint.
Unlike most investment companies, where professionals can usually expect to spend 10 or more years laboring over industry and stock market research before they are given large amounts of money to manage, Fidelity's business school recruits sometimes are assigned their own mutual funds after a research stint of less than three years.
The 15-month research stint clinched Powers's decision to go for a Ph.D. in science.
The computer-applications Ph.D.'s road-to-Damascus conversion came after a year's research stint at what was then the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.
During my Ph.D., I had many of the usual work experiences: extensive time in the lab, several teaching assistantships, and a 6-month research stint overseas.
With his wife, Helen, a classically trained pianist who ran her own business producing concerts in the Baltimore-D.C. area that featured European musicians, he moved to the Max Planck in Berlin for a 5-year research stint.
That means knowing what career moves are considered successful in your field: spending a research stint abroad, going back to your Ph.D. institution, or moving from a university to a private research body, perhaps.
The research stint can take anywhere from 6 months to several years, but the final qualification is offically the same: There is no system in place to give credit for an in-depth doctoral thesis versus a more superficial one.
I spent my following summers reading about astronomy, botany, and zoology, and ended up studying biology at the University of Barcelona in Spain, with a summer research stint at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in northeast Brazil.
When Leon Rosenberg, M.D., began a 6-year research stint at the National Institutes of Health in 1959, NIH had just built the monolithic clinical research facility known as Building 10.
Perhaps most significantly for a foreigner contemplating a research stint in a foreign country, it is an established fact that most Dutch people speak English, the lingua franca of global science, and that one could in all likelihood complete an entire PhD or postdoc without bothering to learn the local language.
