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Mentoring Mentoring is becoming increasingly important for students. This realization occurred to me when I noticed that most students, when they are close to graduation, have little to no clues about what they will do for a living. Sure, they would all like to do Science, but how and where? Industry, Government Labs or Academia? In the fall term of 2003, together with my colleague Alain Pignolet we offered the first, informal version of the ‘Cours de Survie Scientifique’, or ‘Course on Scientific Survival Skills’. The course was a success, according to the comments we received from the 15 – 20 graduate students and post-docs who attended it quite regularly, even though it did not give them any official ‘brownie points’. We then repeated the course, this time giving it officially (worth one whole credit!) during the fall term of 2005. Again, the participants were quite happy and engaged in lively discussions. We now intend to offer the course every second year, since we need a critical mass of participants to keep the discussion lively. During the first edition of the Course, I started writing extended notes. Following advice from another colleague, Tudor Johnston, I decided to transform those notes into a book. Tudor eventually co-authored the book ‘Survival Skills for Scientists’, which has recently been published by Imperial College Press. The first book review of "Survival Skills for Scientists" has just been published!! The second book review on survival skills is out!! Book review by Travis Metcalfe (Astronomer) Journal of Materials Education
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