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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3969473, member: 1414"] Agreed. My sister is a researcher and professor for UGA (at Savannah River Site) and when she was at Colby in Maine won top teacher at the school from students two years in a row. If you've got passion for the field, you can be great teacher and researcher. But it helps if those "classes" are lab based, experience based learning. Hands on, rather than textbook based. She also had great experiences studying evolutionary biology at UConn. I think Ted Taigen was her faculty advisor. That said, to [USER=6696]@husky429[/USER] 's point, some researchers consider their classroom obligations to be a nuisance, a bother that they must engage in. I think some great teachers probably feel that way about the expectation to publish and obtain grants, it interferes with teaching. They really do require different skill sets. [/QUOTE]