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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.
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For the last two weeks, I have been utterly consumed by logistics. I've come home from a trip to Utopia and a research project there, have been in the field twice locally scouting a project here, and am preparing for...
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Posted on June 26, 2008 2:38 PM • 7 Comments •
What meeting? where? what time? isn't that next week?
Posted on June 11, 2008 3:16 PM • 5 Comments •
How am I assessing my successes and challenges of my first tenure-track year? A mixed bag, I think.
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Posted on June 3, 2008 6:05 PM • 7 Comments •
I've blogged before about my difficulties in getting adequate and unrestricted start-up funds from my university. Where we left the story, I'd been awarded about 2/3 the start-up funds I needed, with an oral promise that I would be "first...
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Posted on June 3, 2008 7:41 AM • 5 Comments •
I've just come out of a general positive annual review meeting with my departmental chair and it seems like an appropriate time to take stock of the year and think about where I am heading. At the end of my...
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Posted on May 21, 2008 2:50 PM • 5 Comments •
It's finals week here at Mystery U and I am noticing perceptibly different reactions on the parts of the students and the faculty. The students walk out of an exam joyful and free, while the professor gathers up yet another...
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Posted on May 7, 2008 10:22 AM • 5 Comments •
A plethora of lists to get my work habits reorganized for summer.
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Posted on May 6, 2008 6:46 AM • 12 Comments •
Yeah, yeah, why is she blogging about Thursday, when it's already Friday? Well, folks, it's gonna take me more than one night's sleep to lower the cortisol levels that shot up in my body yesterday. Lemme share the highlights....
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Posted on May 2, 2008 9:55 AM • 10 Comments •
No, really! My first meeting of the Three Days of Meetings that I thought started at 8 am, does in fact start at 8 am, but I don't have to be in it! So I get an hour back! Just...
Posted on April 29, 2008 8:25 AM • 2 Comments •
Dear PhysioProf, You're wrong. Here's why. In the comments on a post about a forth-coming paper and it's possible impacts on my own, you said: Getting completed work out the door should always be at the absolute top of the...
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Posted on April 19, 2008 12:52 PM • 35 Comments •
