{"id":5127,"date":"2021-08-19T19:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2021-08-19T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:33:02","slug":"after-a-career-detour-to-work-on-covid-19-i-struggled-to-get-my-ph-d-research-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/after-a-career-detour-to-work-on-covid-19-i-struggled-to-get-my-ph-d-research-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"After a career detour to work on COVID-19, I struggled to get my Ph.D. research back on track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/author\/brandy-nagamine\">Brandy Nagamine <\/a>Jul. 29, 2021 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is only temporary,\u201d I told myself as I switched from pursuing my Ph.D. research to being a COVID-19 diagnostic technician. During the summer, I had been volunteering in a diagnostic laboratory, assaying samples for the presence of SARS-CoV-2. Now, the lab was offering to take over paying my stipend, tuition, and fees so I could commit more time to that work\u2014and so my Ph.D. adviser wouldn\u2019t have to support me while I did so. My research progress and graduation were my priority. At the same time, I wanted to continue to do my part to protect my community from the pandemic, as well as help out the lab and ease my adviser\u2019s financial burden. I was torn between the needs of my community and my personal needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to starting my Ph.D., I had spent several years working at state veterinary diagnostic laboratories. I enjoyed the diagnostic work, but I wanted to pursue Ph.D.-level research. Four years in, everything was going well as I learned how to combine the precision and speed from my diagnostic training with the flexible thinking and creativity needed for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/careers\/2021\/07\/after-career-detour-work-covid-19-i-struggled-get-my-phd-research-back-track?utm_campaign=SciMag&amp;utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=LinkedIn\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/careers\/2021\/07\/after-career-detour-work-covid-19-i-struggled-get-my-phd-research-back-track?utm_campaign=SciMag&amp;utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=LinkedIn\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Brandy Nagamine Jul. 29, 2021 \u201cThis is only temporary,\u201d I told myself as I switched from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}