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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.

You've read the blog, now try the book: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will be published December 22nd by Scribner.

Chad Orzel "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, the Queen of Niskayuna Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.

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Career Guidance

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A comment I made at a meeting yesterday that I think is worth reproducing out of context: A big part of making it from junior faculty to tenure is deciding which bits of unsolicited contradictory advice you're going to ignore....

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Unseemly Self-Congratulations

Category: Tenure Chase

The final step in the tenure process here is the Very Nice Letter. I'm not sure that it's an official step, as opposed to an established tradition, but whichever it actually is, at the end of the process, a candidate...

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Officially Official

Category: Tenure Chase

In my campus mailbox this morning: Dear Chad: I am pleased to report that on Februrary 10, 2007 the Board of Trustees approved our recommendation that you be tenured effective September 1, 2007 at the rank of Associate Professor. Woo-hoo!...

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Statement on Teaching

Category: Tenure Chase

Here's what I sound like when I expound on my philosophy of teaching physics.

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All That I Want

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"What do you want for Christmas?" "Tenure."

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The MLA on Tenure

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Inside Higher Ed had a story on Friday about a Modern Language Association study on tenure and promotion. The study group just released its final report (available for download here. Given that I'm waiting to hear the results of my...

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Tom Petty Was Right

Category: Tenure Chase

The last step in the tenure review process (from my end) is the approval of the Procedure section of the report. By rule, the ad hoc committee sends the candidate a copy of the section describing what they did in...

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Seven Questions

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I'm going to be too busy to blog much for the next few days, while I think of answers to seven questions.

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Because I Need More Stress

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Steinn reports a new metric for research productivity that some people are using: the "H-number": The H-score, takes all your papers, ranked by citation count; then you take the largest "k" such that the kth ranked paper has at least...

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Inside the Box

Category: Tenure Chase

Behold, the Tenure Box: Well, actually, it's an oversize milk crate, but that's nit-picking. The stuff in the box is all for my tenure review: the blue folders are copies of my research materials, the green folders are my teaching...

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