BMS Graduate Students' independent approach leads to publication

Yale professor Stephen Stearns gives rather cynical yet apropos advice to graduate students regarding their training to become independent scientists (http://stearnslab.yale.edu/some-modest-advice-graduate-students ). 

Stearns says if you want to be treated as a colleague, then act like one.  Furthermore, he says to read the primary scientific literature and think exhaustively; think critically which requires extensive and active engagement, not passive absorption of information. 

Wright State University Biomedical Sciences' PhD student Joseph Santin and Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and