The approval for the second year of my NSF grant just came through. This wasn't really in doubt, but it's nice to have confirmation that the thirty-odd thousand dollars I was counting on to run the next year of the experiment will actually, you know, be available when I start sending purchase orders out for stuff in a week or two...
Not to mention the summer salary that's part of the package...
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I'm going to Vegas, baby!
My father taught sixth grade in the public schools for thirty-odd years, and always griped about the teacher training workshops that they were periodically subjected to, in which some expert would be brought in to talk about the wonders of the latest fad in pedagogy, while all the teachers in the
Back when I was an undergrad, I spent the summer before my senior year on campus working on my thesis project (trying to build a MOT for rubidium, which never did work).
The Internet has been all abuzz today over the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Congratulations! Science lives to see another day.
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Congratulations!