A mentor can make or break a student's time: A conversation with Lindsey Perkin, Ph.D., USDA ARS scientist

We celebrate mentorship in this episode of the ORISE Featurecast in a conversation with Lindsey Perkin, Ph.D, research molecular biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Perkins’s unit focuses on insect pests of cotton and other row crops. She says mentors can make or break a student's experience in a lab or other opportunity. It’s important to guide people in the right way, to give them that good experience. If they have a bad experience, that might completely change the trajectory of what they plan to do in their career and they could leave science altogether. Learn more about ORISE opportunities at USDA ARS: https://orise.orau.gov/usda-ars/index.html