Sciencewomen
A scientist and an engineer being the change we want to see
Profile
ScienceWoman is a first-year assistant professor in -ology. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
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.
Recent Posts
- ISEF 2008: Special awards and scenes from around the fair
- ISEF 2008: Why we judge
- ISEF 2008: Cool science and practical applications
- ISEF 2008: Impressive science by high school students
- ISEF 2008: Full disclosure
- ISEF 2008: Day 1 by the numbers
- ISEF 2008: Nobel Laureates Panel
- First Taste of the International Science and Engineering Fair
- Flying solo
- ADVANCing along with the big kids: my tentative first foray into BIGGRANTDOM
Recent Comments
- ScienceWoman on ISEF 2008: Impressive science by high school students
- Prof-in-training on ISEF 2008: Why we judge
- Ade on ISEF 2008: Impressive science by high school students
- ...tom... on ISEF 2008: Why we judge
- Peggy on ADVANCing along with the big kids: my tentative first foray into BIGGRANTDOM
- Andy on ISEF 2008: Full disclosure
- IBY on ISEF 2008: Impressive science by high school students
- Flicka Mawa on ISEF 2008: Impressive science by high school students
- Carrie on Mother's Day is over-rated. And hard to celebrate.
- Zine Beech on ISEF 2008: Day 1 by the numbers
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About ScienceWoman
I'm a first-year assistant professor in -Ology at Mystery University in Mystery City. I'm mother to Minnow, wife to Fish, and daughter to ScienceGrandma. I mostly blog about my experiences as a woman scientist struggling to balance the demands of academia and a family. I blog because when I was a graduate student contemplating the future, I felt isolated and alone in my ambitions to do good research and be a good mother/wife/person. I don't want other young scientists to feel that way.
The views expressed on this blog are solely my own and in no way should they be taken as the opinions of Mystery University or of Scienceblogs.
About Alice Pawley
I'm an assistant professor in the super-cool School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. I'm an engineer, but a comparatively weird engineer: a feminist, radical, social justice-y engineer. In my research, I combine theoretical frameworks from women's studies, sociology, science and technology studies to apply to the study of engineering and engineering education - I like to think of my work as feminist engineering research.
I'm also a local foodie, and a granola-y vegetarian cook and gardener trying to make a smaller carbon footprint. I'm a Mac person, a hiker and camper, a not-very-good sailor, a not-very-good-but-at-least-in-tune singer, and a photographer. I'm also married, no kids, but my husband has an academic position in another state
I've been blogging pseudonymously since the spring of 2006, and this is the first time I've blogged under my own name. I used to blog because I was writing my dissertation alone in the city my husband worked in, not where my group or peers were, and I was trying to connect with others with the same interests.
My work website is here.
The views expressed on my part of the blog are my own and should not be taken as the opinion of the School of Engineering Education or Purdue University.

