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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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Category: teaching
Remember this summer when I was working on the course design for my new prep on Experimental Design and Data Analysis? We're now a month into the class, and while it has had its rough moments, I think it will...
Posted by SciWo at 9:15 AM • 12 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: care and feeding of graduate students
To recap, I'm prepping a new graduate level course on experimental design and data analysis (EDDA) that will serve MS and PhD students from geosciences and civil and environmental engineering. I've been working through the SERC course design tutorial, and...
Posted by SciWo at 6:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: care and feeding of graduate students
Now that things at ScienceBlogs have returned to normal, and I've drawn down my stash of reader emails, it's time to get back to work on my series on course design. For those who haven't been playing along (1.1, 1.2)...
Posted by SciWo at 10:17 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: care and feeding of graduate students
As introduced yesterday, I'm blogging my way through the SERC tutorial on course design, for a new graduate-only course on experimental design and data analysis. Yesterday, I explained the context and constraints on the course, and today I'm mulling on...
Posted by SciWo at 9:09 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: care and feeding of graduate students
After articulating that my most dire need is to get funded, it may seem disjointed to embark on a series of blog posts about teaching, but there you have it, the life of a professor at a place that requires...
Posted by SciWo at 2:45 PM • 8 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
Category: ask sciencewomen
This is not a belated April Fool's joke, though I'll admit to having sat on this since Wednesday so that my readers wouldn't think I was making this up. Here is the correspondence I found in my email account on...
Posted by SciWo at 9:48 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: in the field
Let me start by saying that I love my upper-level undergraduate students. They are engaged, enthusiastic, willing to try anything, hard-working, and asking great questions. I have near perfect attendance in my class, and when a student misses class, I...
Posted by SciWo at 8:08 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: teaching
Scene 1: a few days ago (SW notes that most pencils in the room have stopped moving or have slowed down) SW: OK, so moving on, we see ... (flipping to next slide) (A hand goes up near the back...
Posted by SciWo at 10:12 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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