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A career as a science professor in one of today's major research universities holds many unique opportunities for meaningful and satisfying service, but such a career may be quite different from the popular conception of what such a position entails. In choosing a career, talented young Christians should be aware of the actual duties, limitations, and opportunities of various possible choices. My purpose in this paper is not to discourage Christians from entering into academic careers where their insights, inputs, and witness are indeed most valuable, but to give some perspective on what it means to be a research science professor today, so that Christians contemplating such careers will be better informed about them. It is also my desire to encourage them to develop and preserve patterns within such an academic career that allow a continuation of the most beneficial and significant relationships in the midst of changing situations.

Disciplines:

• Science and Technology