FemaleScienceProfessor

My husband and I were very lucky that we bought our house years ago when housing prices were low and interest rates were reasonable, and we ...

Recently I compared notes with another FSP about what we tell younger women who ask us questions about careers and families and so on. We ha...

This post is sort of inspired by yesterday's post by Dr. Shellie . It occasionally happens that students will apply to a graduate progra...

One of my colleagues was recently at a dinner party comprised entirely of Scientists, and, at some point in the evening, one of the Scientis...

When I was a grad student, my advisor had to decide whether to give a Research Assistantship to me or to another grad student. In an alarmin...

Although my mother is not yet 70 years old, she has some symptoms of dementia as a result of a brain tumor and its surgical removal about 10...

In the latest episode of my continuing, angst-ridden saga of the search for the perfect set of Invited Speakers for an upcoming conference, ...

Today a male colleague told me that he wished more women grad students had 'monomania' when it came to research/Science. What a thin...

In July 2006 , I commented on the concept/myth of successful women who 'pull up the ladder' after themselves -- that is, women who a...

Recently I was foraging for new online images to use in a lecture, and, as so often happens, I ended up on a Wikipedia page. On this particu...

At the risk of being eternally negative (a.k.a. a whiner) about how I am introduced before an invited talk, I recently experienced something...

Today a graduate student in the English department asked me if I am a "real professor". It's not the first time I've been ...

Recently, I managed to get nearly an entire day's worth of machine time in a lab. This is a nearly impossible feat during the semester f...

The recent incident in which a graduate student/instructor was (temporarily) fired from a job at Cal State-East Bay for not signing a loyalt...

When teaching at a university or college, how much are we 'in control' of the classroom environment and how much can we (reasonably)...

In the past few months, I have given several invited talks at other universities. These trips have all been interesting and exhausting. Amon...

It's Friday, I've had a busy week, and I'm on the road, so today's post is Not Very Serious. At a dinner party with several ...

Time is a perennial issue ( How many hours do you work/week? 2. A new assistant professor (with a minimal teaching and administrative load i...

Some scientific conferences are dominated by talks and some are comprised of talks + poster presentations. At conferences with talks and pos...

A recent article in The Chronicle Review , “The Sweet Lure of Your Graduate-School Town” ( 2/22/08 issue ), has been a topic of discussion i...