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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.
"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: Tenure Chase
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....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:52 AM • 3 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:35 AM • 7 Comments •
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!...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:29 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Tenure Chase
Here's what I sound like when I expound on my philosophy of teaching physics.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:12 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Tenure Chase
"What do you want for Christmas?" "Tenure."
Posted by Chad Orzel at 5:37 PM • 110 Comments •
Category: Tenure Chase
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:14 AM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:43 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Tenure Chase
I'm going to be too busy to blog much for the next few days, while I think of answers to seven questions.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:16 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Tenure Chase
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:48 AM • 13 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:55 PM • 9 Comments •
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