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Professors do three or more jobs

  • Teach students
  • Mentor graduate students
  • Help run the academic department
  • Manage a research group
  • Apply for money
  • Do research

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§Academia Constraints

Successful professors are not necessarily the best researchers

The Strengths of the Academic Enterprise

A PI needs to provide evidence that they have access to a lab facility

National labs and other government research centers are a research alternative to universities

University professorships are the highest status jobs in academia