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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.
Category: granting games
It is that season again, where NSF-CAREER awards are being announced left right and center. In my world, there are three in particular to celebrate:Dr. Julie Trenor, assistant professor in the Department of Science and Engineering Education at Clemson University,...
Posted by Alice at 11:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: granting games
Let's see if I can remember how to do this blogging thing.... Proposal 1: We started out doing it by the book. Picked a good research topic, and then found the appropriate RFP, with a deadline comfortably in the future....
Posted by SciWo at 6:15 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: granting games
I'm back to working on my class on Experimental Design and Data Analysis. One of my goals for the course is to have students work in groups to write an NSF-style proposal. So I sat down this morning to think...
Posted by SciWo at 2:47 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academic adventures
A few weeks ago, I blogged a self-assessment of my progress towards tenure. It seemed like an apt time to reflect in the hours before my annual review meeting with the department chair(s) and in the months before my packet...
Posted by SciWo at 5:57 AM • 10 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...
Posted by Alice at 4:46 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: travel
I'm heading to Washington DC on Monday for NSF's Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) with our team's poster on our ADVANCE project, and I know Pat of FairerScience will be there, doing her thing about "Why Don't They Listen?". Any other...
Posted by Alice at 9:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: granting games
I mentioned that one of the things I've been doing for the last little while is preparing for ADVANCE-Purdue's first-year site visit, which we had on Friday March 27. This is the first year NSF has been doing first year...
Posted by Alice at 11:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pawley pix
Okay, so what on earth *have* I been up to, if not blogging? I'm catching you up (rather like the recitative bits in opera - dry, dull, but advancing the action, rather than arias which are beautiful but don't get...
Posted by Alice at 7:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academic adventures
So the readers have spoken: one more vote for hearing about my PI experience than the weird convo with the deans. However, I was working on the draft, and then some more work stuff got dumped on me, then SW...
Posted by Alice at 4:21 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: engineering education
So I got back Sunday night from a workshop at Arizona State University on Engineering and Science Ethics Education. The goal of the workshop was to explore the possibilities for blending microethics and macroethics in graduate engineering and science education;...
Posted by Alice at 7:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
