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Getting schooled

Nature volume 435, pages 850–851 (2005)Cite this article

To juggle teaching and research, classroom veterans advise beginners to draw on mentors and all the resources they can find. Kendall Powell learns about the balancing act.

When Carol Thornber took her first faculty position last autumn, she inherited teaching responsibility for two undergraduate courses. Although Thornber, a marine ecologist, had to some extent been prepared by a unique postdoctoral training programme, making the transition from student to lecturer was far from plain sailing.

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