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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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Vicious cycles

First, note the time stamp on this post. I have just now succeeded in getting Minnow to sleep and have sat down with a cup of tea and tomorrow's lecture to prepare. It's going to be a long short night....

Posted on March 31, 2008 10:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Unprofessional emails from students

From the email files: To: Science Woman (science.woman@mystery.edu) From: sillyname@yahoo.com Subject: Hey can u tell me how to do number 4 on the problem set. i no u went over it in class but i have had a VERY LONG...

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Posted on February 21, 2008 7:39 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Telling Stories in Class

In my upper level course this semester, I am really trying to interject personality into the lectures and discussions. By personality, I don't (just) mean humor and compassion. What I also mean is that I am trying to convey that...

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Posted on January 30, 2008 8:45 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The New Prep: An Upper Level Course with Lab

Having previously taught (and described) my intro class, my other course this semester has been occupy most of my mental and physical energy of late. To compound the amount of work required, I am also teaching the labs for the...

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Posted on January 15, 2008 2:44 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The first course: a repeat

I'm teaching two classes this semester: one introductory course which is a repeat from last semester and one upper-level course with laboratory, which is a new prep. The intro course: I was reasonably happy with how this course went last...

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Posted on January 8, 2008 8:46 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Aw, damn.

I just caught my first piece of plagiarism. On a throw-away 10 point assignment that required students to write only 2 sentences. That the student in question copied directly from Wikipedia. How dare they!...

Posted on December 5, 2007 11:17 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Teaching evaluations

Yesterday in class my students filled out one of those stereo-typical bubble sheet evaluations that supposed to tell me (and the administration) something meaningful about my teaching abilities. I won't see those results until after grades are turned in, but...

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Posted on November 28, 2007 4:50 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks