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Thanksgiving is a slow time in the blogosphere. I have been fighting a headache all day, so I have very little to give here. But, a promise to blog daily in November still stands, so… Why is it so hard to get a teenager to go to bed, even though he knows intellectually that he’ll
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I am at a major public research university. Sure, this is a university and teaching is important, for some definitions of important; anyone who says that research does not beat teaching to a pulp is a liar. Bringing in extramural funding is the most important metric in most STEM fields. It translates into overhead dollars for the university. It also
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For my nonacademic readers: Research at universities is supported largely by grants from federal funding agencies, which are extremely hard to get. Professors in the sciences and engineering at large research universities spend a lot of time applying for grants (writing proposals). Overhead is the portion of external grants that the university takes for
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Best of luck with fall NSF proposals, everyone!
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