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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.
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April 29, 2009
Category: Pawley pix
It has been a horrible week at work. Horrible. Actually, it started in the middle of last week. Suffice it to say I have had many behind-the-door conversations, real sturm und drang, and I find it completely unbloggable. Just no...
Posted by Alice at 10:23 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: environment
Let me now sing the praises of NASA's Earth Observatory, a phenomenal web-based public education resource that is celebrating its 10th birthday today. Every day for the past decade, NASA has been uploading spectacular remote sensing images and astronaut photographs...
Posted by SciWo at 12:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2009
Category: publish or perish
This being the last week of class, it seems appropriate to reflect a bit more on the semester just finishing. Bluntly, this has been an awful semester for me in terms of things that count toward reappointment, tenure, and (nonexistent)...
Posted by SciWo at 7:53 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2009
Category: earning that PhD
ScienceGrandma pointed me to this recent article in the Wall Street Journal. It's titled "So You Want to Be a Professor?" but I think it should have been called "The Perils of a Ph.D." The article begins by citing some...
Posted by SciWo at 3:29 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2009
Category: in the news
There's an article on the New York Times Online about Allannah Thomas, founder of Helicon, a non-profit that helps low-income women learn math skills they need for better jobs. Thomas's courses are called "math boot camp" because of their focus...
Posted by Alice at 8:19 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2009
Category: SciWo says...
Alice and I have been talking about the big and small ways that universities could act to improve the environment, but Earth Day is also about making personal changes to lessen your environmental impact. So it's fitting that Mike Dunford...
Posted by SciWo at 10:24 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: environment
Today for me consisted of one PhD defense (I was on the committee; it was successfully defended, congrats Dr. Ken!), a meeting about ADVANCE, 2 hrs of class, another PhD meeting that I'm on the committee of, and then a...
Posted by Alice at 6:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2009
Category: environment
Like many other public universities around the country, Mystery U has been hit hard by the economic hard times. Most of this year, we heard ominous rumblings that (at some point) there would be a budget reversion, i.e., we'd have...
Posted by SciWo at 7:50 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2009
Category: Alice's rants
Blogger Feministx popped over the other day to visit and leave a comment on SW's "goody goody" post. I hadn't read Feministx before, but she claims she "started my blog with the intention of focusing on feminist concerns, but lately...
Posted by Alice at 9:08 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pawley pix
I've noticed that a certain grimness has entered my colleagues' and my attitude over the last week or so. It's a "there is only (X) days/weeks left, we just have to finish" attitude, similar to what I anticipate marathon runners...
Posted by Alice at 10:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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