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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.
March 31, 2009
Category: academic adventures
In early February, I received a letter from my university president. A hand-signed letter, addressed to me. In it, she reported how she had been reading this blog and my personal work website. (!) She was very complimentary of this...
Posted by Alice at 9:46 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: books
I'm very busy this week, with visitors to our department, a stack of grading, and the usual drive to do more research and be a better mommy. Alice isn't in any better shape. I was wondering how I was going...
Posted by SciWo at 9:37 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2009
Category: conference chatter
This announcement just in: the organization of a US-Europe workshop on research on gender in engineering education. More information below the fold; applications are due April 13, in just over 2 weeks!...
Posted by Alice at 11:49 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publish or perish
Look look, a new journal on gender, science and technology! See the inaugural call for papers below the fold....
Posted by Alice at 11:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: link love
Ever since Erin and Hig walked through the village near our summer cabin in British Columbia, I've been reading their blog about walking from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. Once they made it to their destination, over a year from...
Posted by Alice at 7:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 29, 2009
Category: Alice shares...
For this month's Scientiae, Candid Engineer has asked for stories about overcoming challenges. ScienceWoman has already contributed an awesome story to the Diversity in Science carnival, but I think it does for Scientiae, too. What about my own story?...
Posted by Alice at 9:29 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2009
Category: what did they say about "balance," again?
ScienceWoman has been a rockstar carrying the blogging load this week, and I'll have to crave her (and your) indulgence a little bit longer. Apart from discovering that both my university president and my university provost read our blog (hi...
Posted by Alice at 5:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2009
Category: women in science
Mary Ann Mason has a column in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education describing the importance of role models and mentors for women graduate students. Though Zuska recently wrote a provocative post that argued that "the problem of motherhood" might...
Posted by SciWo at 9:36 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2009
Category: blogging
There's a crafty meme going around the blogosphere and lovely academic blogger phd me is going to be sending me a craft of her making. In order to be deserving of her crafty goodness, I've promised to make crafts for...
Posted by SciWo at 11:36 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2009
Category: academic adventures
It's Women's History Month, and the Diversity in Science Carnival has asked us to profile women scientists. I spend a lot of time thing about the things that affect the lives of today's young women scientists, but I also know...
Posted by SciWo at 11:55 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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