Tenure Chase
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Because I Need More Stress
Posted by Chad Orzel on October 27, 2006 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 k citations. So, you start off with a H-score of zero. If your 5th highest…
Inside the Box
Posted by Chad Orzel on September 1, 2006 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 materials, the yellow folders are my CV and statements, and the thing at the front…
Story of My Life
Posted by Chad Orzel on August 25, 2006 One of the things required for the tenure review is a full and up-to-date curriculum vitae. Having spent an inordinate amount of time updating and re-formatting my CV, it seems a shame not to make more use of it than that, so I might as well recycle it into a blog post (after stripping out…
What I Do for a Living
Posted by Chad Orzel on August 15, 2006 I’m in the process of putting together my tenure documents (I know I’ve been saying this for weeks. It’s a long process, OK?). Most of these are really not appropriate for reproduction here, but I’ll post a few of the things I’m writing, when it’s reasonable to do so. A major part of the tenure…
