We prepare successful scientists
- Active training model: Regular individual meetings
- Mentoring: Scaffolded advising with more senior members mentoring more junior members from PI to RA
- Attention to professional development: Attend and present at conferences, practice talks and/or lunch talks, regular lab meetings, and RA meetings for prof dev
- High expectations: Constructive criticism, positive communication style combined with direct feedback
We value diversity
- of ideas
- of personalities
- of group memberships
We promote basic research, application, education, and dissemination
- Research projects selected and designed to have high impact
- Basic questions are often asked in applicable contexts
- We engage the public's interest in basic research
We model collaboration
- Domains of expertise are shared with others
- Many projects leverage multiple skill-sets exceed the value of the sum of contributors
- We strive for an open-source research environment for software, scripts, skills, and accumulation of knowledge
We practice collaborative leadership
- Leadership strives for consensus
- Ideas are taken seriously; leaders are open to others' ideas
- The best ideas are adopted and implemented; When available, data are used to assist decision-making
We push the boundaries of knowledge with theoretical, methodological and technological innovation
- Over time, we improve our imagination and ideas
- We strive for excellence in implementing our ideas
- Over time, we increase our efficiency without reducing our quality
- We encourage initiative
We support balanced lifestyles
- Positive integration of personal life and work
- Appreciating value of social gatherings among professional colleagues
We balance pursuit of lab mission with fostering of individual academic identities
- Shared research themes between unique individual research agendas
- We promote ownership on projects
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