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Advice for retaining graduate students of color in academe (opinion)

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By Robert Fernandez
| Inside Higher Ed Verified
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As a formerly undocumented immigrant who has spent a decade in academe fighting for the advancement of Latino students in higher education in the sciences, I want to shed light on the struggles that students of color face in graduate school and why so many of us are leaving it. Growing up, I never dreamed of becoming a scientist, because I figured that such a career path was not available to me as a child of immigrants.
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The neuropeptidergic connectome of C. elegans

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By Jan Watteyne, Robert Fernandez, Seth Taylor, Alexis Weinreb
| Cell Press Verified
Highlights • A comprehensive map of neuropeptide signaling in C. elegans has been assembled • Neuropeptide signaling forms a dense and decentralized wireless network • The peptidergic network core exhibits mesoscale structure and distinct hubs • Neuropeptides link disconnected neural circuits to the connectome Summary Efforts are ongoing to map synaptic wiring diagrams, or connectomes, to understand the neural basis of brain function.
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Latino STEM leaders had major impact in science. Why aren't we taught about them?

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By Robert Fernandez
| Yahoo News Verified
Fifteen years ago when I embarked on my scientific journey, I was an undocumented immigrant from Peru who never dreamed of becoming a scientist. My parents were not scientists or professors, my mom worked in a glass-making factory and my father in a fast-food restaurant. Having had no scientific role models growing up, I always thought that career was reserved for geniuses and didn't think it was a path for me.
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