Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School

A reception and poster session will precede the lecture, 5-7pm, in the South Ballroom.

Adam Ruben, comedian and molecular biologist, is the author of the book Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School, which discusses the "sadistic and often hypocritical world of post-baccalaureate education through grad students' own bloodshot eyes." Ruben has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and teaches an undergraduate stand-up comedy class there. He writes the humor column "Experimental Error" in the journal Science, is a blogger for the Journal of Visualized Experiments, has appeared on the Food Network's Food Detectives, the Science Channel's Head Rush, NPR's All Things Considered, and co-hosts Outrageous Acts of Science on the Science Channel. Part of the Graduate & Professional Student Senate Research Conference

This event is free and open to the public. Registration for other symposium activities is encouraged and free of charge.
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