Professional Development Activities Don't Delay Graduation, Study Shows

students taking a break on the Swope lawn. Credit: Daniel Cojanu

Director of Education Linda Hyman is co-author of a new paper in that graduate students who take part in professional development opportunities unrelated to their lab work did not delay their time to graduation or their rate of manuscript publication.

One of the institutions that collaborated on the study, University of Texas at San Antonio, provides more background