Olga Dyakova did her halftime PhD defence on December 17. Olga brilliantly answered some very difficult questions from the committee, calmly debated equations on the black board (while every other student in the audience almost fainted from fear), and convincingly showed the committee and the audience that she has a complete understanding of her work. She did so amazingly well, and I am so proud to be a part of the start of her scientific journey.
By Karin
Olga Dyakova did her halftime PhD defence on December 17. Olga brilliantly answered some very difficult questions from the committee, calmly debated equations on the black board (while every other student in the audience almost fainted from fear), and convincingly showed the committee and the audience that she has a complete understanding of her work. She did so amazingly well, and I am so proud to be a part of the start of her scientific journey.
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By Karin Nordström
Not only did Marissa manage to get 1st class honors (!) but she also scored one of the very competitive PhD scholarships from Flinders University. This means that she will be starting her PhD student journey in the lab in early 2017, with a fee waiver from the University, and a scholarship to support her living expenses. What an incredible achievement! By Olga At the beginning of December I finally attended the "Scientific Presentation" course. Couple of deadlines were already missed and couple of others looked at me from the nearest future. Now I would like to share some tips I have got from the course. They might be helpful for the new PhD students and to the old ones who has not attended that course. The first tip: take the course as soon as possible! ;) I remember an opened document, innocently white. I remember my eyes looking at it. I remember my thoughts.... ... honestly, I remember NO thoughts. All my thoughts were somewhere else, so there were nothing to transfer to the document. (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1732) It happened because I forgot 2 important steps before I started writing: 1. to find a silent place without Internet, phone and people to clean thoughts and be focused. 2. to ask myself: What did I find? If these two steps are not missed, then, writing a draft abstract can be a good start. Once, the preliminary structure is written, it is much easier to write the main paper with following sections: 1. introduction (background + aim) 2. results 3. methods 4. conclusion/discussion Sometimes results and discussion can be combined. And, of course, do not forget to collect data, calculate statistics, draw preliminary figures, find references (and use ENDNOTES!) and choose a right journal! Once the first draft is ready, get comments and suggestions from your co-authors and REWRITE your manuscript! Good luck!
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