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This topic has been popping in and out of my mind for months now, but I never seem to have the time to jot anything down before I forget again… So today is the day! Professors, do you go commencement ceremonies to hood your PhD graduates? I did it with my first PhD graduate. While…
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It’s that time of year again, when undergrads start enrolling in their spring semester classes. I am scheduled to teach a large undergrad course, let’s call it A, one that’s required for majors and offered every semester, and it’s nearly full to capacity. I looked at the roster and there are probably a couple of dozen students…
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A New Assistant Professor (NAP) has a question: I have worked at an industrial research lab for five years and have finally received an offer from a well-known US public research school as an assistant professor in engineering. I am so excited but at the same time I am a bit anxious about setting up a new research…
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Apparently, a septuagenarian Nobel laureate thinks women are a distraction in the lab and cry a lot; calls for gender-segregated labs. The Internet erupts. Whatever. I am actually relieved every time something like this happens. I am relieved that occasionally someone is actually stupid enough to say out loud what many think and act according to anyway.…
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This weekend I finally gave myself a permission to not work, as I had worked nearly non-stop through last weekend because of a deadline and ended up quite exhausted. Last weekend, Middle Boy had his best friend over. We love the little boy and his family, and I know the mom pretty well. She is very…
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I have issues with some of the advanced teaching strategies as I see them implemented in my department. (Flipped classroom, I am looking at you, and all other eggcellent paradigms.) My main complaint is that the responsibility to sit down and understand the material and work until proficiency is achieved is being taken away from…
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The spring semester is over! After months of heavy teaching and service, with a large helping of grant writing, I am now happily heading into 3.5 months of summer, which means a) frantically writing up and sending off several papers for publication, which had been sitting on my desk for longer than I care to…
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