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Erik: How has your scientific training informed your development as a manager?
Stacie: Developing managerial skills, as a scientist, is not so easy. It's not one of
the skills that you learn in the lab. You can be naturally inclined to be a good manager,
but I would say throughout graduate school and postdoctoral training, management is not
the skills that you get. One of the things that we do at the New York Academy of Sciences
is a science alliance program that provides career mentoring and skill development outside
of the university. So, it's a place where currently about 10,000 young scientists come
to learn those kinds of skills. One of those is how to manage your lab, or how to navigate
the visa process, or how to find a career outside of academia, how to be an entrepreneur,
how to take your idea to an IPO. Those are the kinds of things that we are trying to
teach young scientists at the Academy.