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Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
SciWo is an assistant professor of geosciences. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
February 27, 2009
Category: SciWo says...
As Alice kindly announced, today is my 30th birthday. The day got off to a rough start, but a little time ignoring work, eating a lovely organic lunch, reading some Pride and Prejudice, and then eating too much ice cream...
Posted by SciWo at 10:30 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: personal
Haaaappy birrrrthdaaaay tooo yoooooou, Haaaaappy birrrrthdaaaay toooo yooooou, Haaaappy birrrrrrrthdaaaaay, deeeeear Sciiiiience Womaaaaan, Haaaaaappy birrrrthdaaaaaay toooo yoooooooou! (Aaaand many moooooooore!)...
Posted by Alice at 7:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2009
Category: academic adventures
Wow. You all rock. You are good at so many wonderful things - I am impressed. Yesterday's question was prompted by the introductory activity at a COACh workshop that I had the privilege of attending. The workshop focused on developing...
Posted by SciWo at 3:45 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academic adventures
So here I am in sunny and unsustainable Tempe, enjoying the warm weather and empty morning (the workshop I'm here to attend doesn't start until 1:30 local time). I spent this morning sleeping in (gasp!), chatting to my mom on...
Posted by Alice at 1:02 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
Category: academic adventures
Sorry for my blog silence -- I've been swamped in work, and then to top it off, I got sick yesterday and missed a day of work (!). I'm heading to Arizona State University today to go to a...
Posted by Alice at 8:14 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: let's talk about solutions
You are in a room with a bunch of other female faculty/post-docs/grad students from your university. You know a few of them, but most of them are unfamiliar to you. The convener of the meeting asks each of you to...
Posted by SciWo at 7:12 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2009
Category: blogging
Hear ye, hear ye. The first-ever and best-ever edition of the Diversity in Science Carnival has been posted.Read all about it at DNLee's Urban Science Adventures! There's some really fabulous stuff there and I can't wait to read those that...
Posted by SciWo at 9:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2009
Category: teaching
Scene 1: a few days ago (SW notes that most pencils in the room have stopped moving or have slowed down) SW: OK, so moving on, we see ... (flipping to next slide) (A hand goes up near the back...
Posted by SciWo at 10:12 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2009
Category: books
BBC Book Meme As seen everywhere. BBC Book List Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have...
Posted by SciWo at 10:43 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2009
Category: women in science
Dr. Ashanti Pyrtle is an assistant professor in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida. She's a chemical oceanographer who studies the fate, transport and retention of radionuclides in aquatic ecosystems. Her PhD work investigated the...
Posted by SciWo at 10:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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