Can a favor be life-changing?
For environmental scientist and 2019 AAAS Fellow Marie Lynn Miranda, it certainly was. Miranda almost didn’t become a professor, let alone a dean or provost. She had no plans to stay in academia, but while finishing her Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University, her mentor asked her to teach a class as a favor.
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