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Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Academia
There's been a lot written recently about academic publishing, in the kerfuffle over the "Research Works Act"-- John's roundup should keep you in reading material for a good while. This has led some people to decide to boycott Elsevier, including...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:58 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
A currently popular explanation for the increasing price of higher education is that all those tuition dollars are being soaked up by bloated bureaucracy-- that is, that there are too many administrators for the number of faculty and students involved....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:19 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The new school year is upon us, so there's been a lot of talk about academia and how it works recently. This has included a lot of talk about the cost of higher education, as has been the case more...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:01 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Over at io9, they have a post on the finances of running a research lab at a major university. It's reasonably good as such things go, but very specific to the top level of research universities. As I am not...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:47 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: PNAS
(This post is part of the new round of interviews of non-academic scientists, giving the responses of S.M., a Canadian government employee who would prefer not to be identified by name. The goal is to provide some additional information for...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:42 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
As I noted the other day, we're entering graduation season, one of the two month-long periods (the other being "back to school" time in August/September) when everybody pretends to care deeply about education. Accordingly, the people at the Pew Research...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:26 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
College graduation season is upon us, at least for institutions running on a semester calendar (sadly, Union's trimester system means we have another month to go). This means the start of the annual surge of Very Serious op-eds about what...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 5:25 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
It's NCAA tournament time, which is time for everybody to break out the moralizing stories about the pernicious aspects of college athletics that they've been sitting on since the football season ended. The Associated Press (via the New York Times)...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 4:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I've probably gotten a dozen pointers to Gregory Petsko's open letter in support of the humanities, addressed to the President of SUNY-Albany, over the last couple of weeks (the link is to a reposting of the letter at Inside Higher...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:07 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The American Institute of Physics has a statistics division that produces lots of interesting analyses of issues relevant to the discipline. A couple of them were released just recently, including one on the job status of new Ph.D.'s (PDF). The...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:45 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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