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Impact - New Science

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I became a New Science fellow during the first year of my PhD. So, I took a short sabbatical to pursue a crazy ambitious summer project with absolute intellectual independence. Unsurprisingly, I didn't crank out an instant Nature paper — I struggled! It was basically a battlefield promotion to PI, in miniature: spinning up a totally new research program in a new city, with total control over my agenda, and total accountability to seek out the support and collaborations I needed. New Science was a fever dream that made me a better, braver, more fiercely independent scientist. I wish I could do it again. The New Science fellowship was really productive for me. It was incredibly helpful to spend a couple months learning how to set everything up from scratch - the materials, the bench, everything. The way really high-impact labs work is you have your own project and you're pretty independent, but I didn't have a real project of my own in my thesis lab. Going through this mini project throu

Impact - New Science Impact Kian Faizi 2022 Summer Fellow Currently: Graduate Student @ Caltech I became a New Science fellow during the first year of my PhD. So, I took a short sabbatical to pursue a crazy ambitious summer project with absolute intellectual independence. Unsurprisingly, I didn't crank out an instant Nature paper — I struggled! It was basically a battlefield promotion to PI, in miniature: spinning up a totally new research program in a new city, with total control over my agenda, and total accountability to seek out the support and collaborations I needed. New Science was a fe

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