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Be honest also about how much structure you need.

Some trainees benefit from defined milestones, funding, and a clear transition to fellowship, but others might need flexibility because their research interests are still evolving.

When I give advice to my trainees about interviewing for their prospective residency programs, I talk a lot about what kind of lab they want.

Do they want a big lab? Do they want a small lab, something like they worked in before, or something very different? And maybe what you had before worked really well, and you want to stick to the good thing.

Is it a few elective blocks, a continuous year, or a longer period during fellowship? And does it add times in training? And how does a structure meet board certification requirements? If residency and fellowship are linked, is a fellowship position guaranteed, expected, or simply possible? What happens if your subspecialty interests change? So for those residents who are matching into a PSCP, or you might match into fellowship at the time of residency matriculation, you want to know, are there any safeguards in place in case you change your mind? Maybe you thought you were going into GI and you choose to go Hemonc, for example.

Is the program going to understand that and allow you to succeed in the different pathway that you select? Then ask what you are expected to accomplish.

Is it a feasible project, preliminary data, a career development application, or the beginnings of an independent research direction? So what is the program expecting of you and on what timeframe? Those goals require very different amounts of time, funding, and mentorship.

also so key something we never learn in medical school understand who supports your salary and research expenses what additional resources are available and whether protected time depends on outside funding if that funding is delayed what is the backup plan so with funding uncertainty these days you want to know that you're still going to be supported And so critical is understanding how your pay and your salary works.

I became involved when it was already a reuse project and that was about 12 years ago.

It was able to support itself and actually bring employment, well-paid employment, without having to go for funding as much as perhaps other environmental projects might need to do.

So that, you know, it's been a long time, 22 years to get to this point, but we still feel that there's a lot of scope left.

Tell us more about what was your journey into working here?

Sounds like a big investment.

It is, it is.

We were also helped enormously by CARES funding.

So as we drive up you'll notice that we have rather a large solar array of 500 panels.

Detailed Findings What did the Department of Energy select under SPARC? DOE selected 31 projects in 26 states on September 24, 2026, funded from the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships program that the 2021 infrastructure law authorized at up to $10.5 billion over five years.

The money is reallocated program funding.

DOE describes the selections as intentions to fund, and the figures stay preliminary until agreements are signed.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity number 0003580 issued on March 12, 2026 with applications due May 20, 2026.

Level 6 for advanced transmission technologies and high-performance conductors, Level 7 for all other technologies.

Projects must show a payback of 10 years or less when claiming the affordability benefit.

Awards carry one budget period with go or no go decision points, so continued federal funding depends on measured performance.

DOE plans to feed project data into its metrics and benefits program.

Number three, a bipartisan bill proposes $10 billion for fusion.

Number four, TITO raises funding for fusion plasma diagnostics.

As always, we'll have some bonus stories at the end that you do not want to miss out on.

Number one, CFS places a major superconducting tape order for ARC.

A thin layer of superconducting material sits on a metal strip, and stacks of those strips go into the coils that confine the plasma.

Stronger magnets let CFS pursue a more compact tokamak, but building those magnets take a huge amount of precisely manufactured material.

You remember we covered CFS's billion-dollar funding round in August.

This gives us a concrete example of where the industrial preparation is heading.

They don't have the space to really dream into the spaces of what would their priority list be.

That's my dream for the infrastructure, is that our Native nations have the time and the resources to really build out a prioritization.

And we can't even say, "It's really sad," but we can't even say the, "Which lands would you want back?" It's such a, it's such a not normalized thing that people pretend like they don't want it back.

I've seen it with tribes.

Sci- is that, AISES is the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and STEM is, because pod- not everybody works in the sector, is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, right? So I would say that yes, absolutely.

I'll just give the example of my sister's tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Salish and Kootenai, CSKT.

They have one of the a most amazing natural resources department.

Their DNR is probably better than the state of Montana, and why is that? Why are they so good? They have the foresight to understand what kinds of specialized people they need in their tribe.

And actually, we have a very interesting and diverse community textile industry here in the UK and especially Scotland.

And sometimes it feels like it takes a real backseat in priorities in terms of maybe some of the funding that comes its way or the support that comes its way.

And I know there's great things happening, but it feels like there is more that could be done to support the textile industry.

Absolutely, Sarah.

And I also agree with Sarah in terms of what annoys me.

It was something that I'd made a mental note of to mention as well.

And that is about the funding for textiles.

And I thought it would be good.