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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Politics
The Arizona Education Association is reporting that nearly 4,500 K-12 teachers and other personnel have been pink-slipped for the next school year. What is truly worrying about this is that it is based on reports from only 36 of the...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:27 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
February is going to be a busy month for me. Sunday I leave for Oklahoma where I will be giving the lead-off public lecture for their Darwin 2009 Celebration. I will be speaking on the 12th at the Sam Noble...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Life Academic
The coming year should be fairly productive. Here are what I hope to be the highlights for 2009: Finish and submit three book reviews over the next few weeks Finish some work for the History of Science Society's Committee on...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:33 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Regular readers will remember that last year we here at Scienceblogs undertook a bloggers challenge for DonorsChoose.org, an organization that helps K-12 teachers. In two weeks we raised over $34,000 for deserving teachers and their students. This blog alone raised...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Life Academic
Ah, the start of another semester. That exciting time of the year when you meet new students, make new goals, and invariably curse at the copy machine as it refuses to churn out syllabi for you. Such is mid-January in...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:50 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Teaching
It’s the end of the semester here. Classes ended last week and that leaves me with some final exams and papers to get graded before the end of this week. I’ve also got a talk (on ID) to prepare for...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:29 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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