A (hopefully practical and useful) guide to getting a faculty job (talk at 2017 JINA Frontiers meeting; an updated version was given to the MSU Postdoctoral Association in May 2020)
Job searches: Or, what jobs can I do with this PhD, and how do I get them? (PDF of talk slides; talk given at the 2022 JINA-CEE Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics Junior Researcher Workshop)
Making a Resume (PDF of talk slides; talk given at the 2023 CeNAM Frontiers in Nuclear Astrophysics Junior Researcher Workshop)
Honors Options ideas
Senior thesis project information
Getting started with research
Want a recommendation letter?
Why
should I take Lyman Briggs physics? (and the LBC
physics program website).
Computational Science Resources
Sample
cover letter for journal manuscript submissions (on
Martin White's webpage)
Why
is astronomy impoortant? (International Astronomical Union)
Why
do we explore? - NASA
Why should we go to space? Stephen Hawking,
Neil deGrasse Tyson 1,
2,
National Space Society,
Air
& Space Magazine
The
cost of astrophysics.
"Advice
to the young astronomer," by Ed Nather