December 27, 2005 6:12 AM

Lab vs. Life
Posted by Jason Butlerat 6:12 AM

Today's Globe writes about the pressures of balancing graduate school with motherhood, an issue critical to the future of Boston's Life Sciences industry.

As a graduate student at Harvard University and also a mother, [Debrah] Rud hopes to inspire female undergraduates to pursue both a career in science and a family. The trouble is, she's still figuring out if she herself can have both.
Rud nearly dropped out of her doctorate program after she gave birth, and she still fears that her family would suffer if she devoted herself to an academic research career.