April 25, 2003

Beating the Odds

By CHRIS WOOLSTON

How two doctoral students in the sciences made it straight to the tenure track

As a herpetology postdoc at the Smithsonian Institution, Jim McGuire had two open secrets. One, he got his bachelor's degree in business, not science. (Some may scoff, but there's something to be said for the strategy -- he never had to take a course in organic chemistry.) Second, and potentially more shocking to the postdocs around him, he already had a tenure-track job in the bag. In fact, McGuire had

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