conference chatter:
Category: engineering education
I'm digging out of a mound of to-dos, but wanted to make you aware of two opportunities to explore feminist pedagogies and research methods in engineering education at the 2009 FIE later this month. Note participation in the workshop requires...
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Posted by Alice at 2:28 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
A. Non Mouse, who blogs over at NaCl and hv, has just written a great series of posts about her strategies for successfully bringing a baby to a conference. Check out her how-to posts on childcare, transportation, gear, and accommodations....
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Posted by SciWo at 12:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
A wonderful and alert reader writes: i know you have lots of astronomer readers, so you probably already know about this, but just in case not: http://wia2009.gsfc.nasa.gov/ this is a conference whose title is "women in astronomy 2009: meeting the...
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Category: conference chatter
When I first started to go to conferences, I couldn't see what people saw in them. I didn't know anyone, I thought lots of the sessions were boring, and I found the whole thing overly stressful to deal with. Then...
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Posted by Alice at 5:11 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
Somehow I've survived this week with only one really big "oops" (an IRB application I should have turned in weeks ago), and I am off tomorrow to continue my conference tour. I'm heading to a workshop in Delft, The Netherlands...
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Posted by Alice at 10:08 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
Okay, so I have recovered from my visit to Washington, and my first JAM conference. Here are some highlights that are more edited than my lame live-blogging post is. ;-)...
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Posted by Alice at 10:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: conference chatter
At JAM last week, a really useful session was conducted by Nakeina Douglas, an assistant professor in the L Douglass Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth. She also is involved in the Grace E Harris Leadership...
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Category: conference chatter
Blog friend Pat Campbell and her colleagues Susan Metz, and Jennifer Weisman gave a great talk at JAM on getting your research message out to the press....
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Category: conference chatter
I'm liveblogging the Joint Annual Meeting of the HRD directorate programs, and although the internez is spotty, I will update as we can. We began the morning with a keynote by Dr. Wanda Ward, Assistant Director for the Directorate for...
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Posted by Alice at 9:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: ADVANCE
The email below announces this year's "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" workshop run by Rice University's ADVANCE program. I've heard great things about this workshop and they've run it for several years. In fact, I applied two years running and...
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