FemaleScienceProfessor

I DON'T CARE IF IT'S FRIDAY, THIS IS A QUIZ . My teenage daughter and some friends came up with a list of possible topics for a...

Fellow professors : In the past few weeks/months, days, I know that many of you have looked on with intense jealousy and longing as the firs...

Recently, a colleague said to me: I just had the strangest interaction with a student. He was quite emphatic that this was the strange...

As I may have mentioned before, this summer has been extremely busy for me. It is the first summer ever that I have not had time to visit my...

A few years ago, I decided to name one of my laboratory rooms. This particular lab is a nice little room, conveniently located. In it, vario...

From time to time, when a "fortune" in a fortune cookie entertains me, I keep the little slip of paper, although I don't alway...

The following image has been provided to me through various indirect, circuitous, and secret Cat Channels, so I apologize that I cannot iden...

How many of you have given a pet a nerdy name connected somehow to an academic passion of yours? For example, if you are a scientist, do you...

Every so often, when my husband's hair is at a certain length that makes him look like a mad scientist, he gets it cut. He refuses to le...

There has been much blogospheric discussion, here and elsewhere , of (good) ways in which "career interruptions" can be mentioned ...

Perhaps it was inevitable. Throughout our daughter's childhood, the teenage years loomed ever larger. We heard the stories, we knew what...

This is one of the stranger (but not the strangest!*) anecdotes in Higher Education? , a book by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus: " W...

The academic year is still young, but already there is a new trend apparent in Reasons Why Students Can't Take The Exam (on the schedul...

Has anyone studied the biochemical changes experienced by teachers while they are teaching? I guess it would be difficult to stick wires all...

Last week's post on Tenure and how certain media outlets choose to portray the issues related to tenure reminded me of an incident and ...

An alternative title for this post is: Now I've Seen Everything (in a review) To explain: One possible example of a broader impact that...

The service described in the upper right of this sign is a bit chilling, no?

Eventually I will finish a post that contains my thoughts on What Should Be Done to train new professors to teach, but it's not ready t...

At some point in the second hour of listening to what was supposed to have been a 45 minute talk, I happened to glance at a distinguished pr...

A few weeks ago, I was stunned by the interest in my casual mention of having an Ayn Rand Beach Story . Mostly I used the phrase in a previo...