Posterminaries: Learning about the Learning Curve
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Ames National Laboratory is a government-owned, contractor-operated national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), operated by and located on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
For more than 70 years, the Ames National Laboratory has successfully partnered with Iowa State University, and is unique among the 17 DOE laboratories in that it is physically located on the campus of a major research university. Many of the scientists and administrators at the Laboratory also hold faculty positions at the University and the Laboratory has access to both undergraduate and graduate student talent.
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Among the pleasures of the “researcher lifestyle” is the joy of always learning something new. If the shock of the new is the jolt that gets you going, then you probably have the mindset of a researcher, or maybe an artist. Art and science share some aspects as lifestyles, but there are essential differences, too. Paul Gaugin commented that “art is either plagiarism or revolution,” but science certainly does not have to be plagiarism if it is not revolutionary: in fact, it had better not. Researchers almost always work in the context of what has been discovered before.