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PhDepression: Examining How Graduate Research and Teaching Affect Depression in Life Sciences PhD Students

Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Nicholas J. Wiesenthal

Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816

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Isabella Ferreira

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Katelyn M. Cooper

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Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Published Online:26 Jul 2021https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-03-0077

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Submitted: 29 March 2021

Revised: 7 May 2021

Accepted: 14 May 2021

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© 2021 L. E. Gin, N. J. Wiesenthal, et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We are incredibly grateful to the 50 graduate students who were willing to share their personal experiences with us. We thank Sara Brownell, Tasneem Mohammed, Carly Busch, Maddie Ostwald, Lauren Neel, and Rachel Scott for their helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this work. L.E.G. was supported by an NSF Graduate Fellowship (DGE-1311230). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.