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Podcast: Significant Impact: from K Award to Your First Big R01
Episode: Featured K to R Essentials Graduate: Deanne Tibbitts, PhD
Description: The K-to-R transition asks you to do something that sounds simple but isn't: zoom out from the project you've been working on and start seeing yourself as someone with a research program. That shift is harder than it looks — and it's exactly where Deanne Tibbitts found herself in the final stretch of her K award, while simultaneously navigating a nine-month job search in one of the hardest years academic research has seen in recent memory.She arrived in K to R Essentials thinking she needed to tackle "a big mountain" of an R01 — and what she got inst...