FemaleScienceProfessor

This term I have gotten to know a lot about the medical and personal situations of some of my undergraduates. I have received scanned report...

In recent weeks a few of my colleagues and I have had the unpleasant task of trying to find ways to cut a department budget that is already ...

A common complaint when a student has to write something (a proposal, a short paper, an abstract, a fellowship application) with a strict wo...

Last Friday I wrote about how undergrads and professors exist on different planes or planets with respect to expectations and general views ...

This weekend I was working in a lab room alone for a couple of hours, eventually emerging when I had to retrieve something from my office. I...

This post could also be called "Earth to Professors", as it is about the different planes (spheres?) of existence of most students...

An article ("Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes") in the NY Times describes how many students today think they ...

In various posts over the years, I have discussed the concept of a Research Group and how it is important that all members (students, postd...

Some scientists need Science Stuff (equipment) in order to do their research and train their graduate students in the techniques they may ne...

As the economic crisis drags on and worsens, I would like to discuss some more issues of how the poor economy affects Academe, in addition t...

In a perfect world : I would have a grant in place during grad student recruiting season, and this grant would fund an excellent student fro...

Agree or disagree : Graduate advisors should show grant proposals to their Ph.D. students so that students can see what is involved in a pro...

In an ongoing but intermittent effort to rid my office of filing cabinets that I have not opened for 9 ± 1 years, I have been making random ...

An essay titled Want to Engineer Real Change? Don't Ask a Scientist appeared in the Washington Post on 25 January, but I just saw it t...

Save your rejection letters for manuscripts. Maybe you can get the letter published in The New York Times . Example: A rejection letter for ...

My daughter will soon be giving a certain talk at her school. She practiced her talk for us (her parents), and my husband commented "Th...

Thanks to a friend in a frozen part of the country for sending me this link to a public radio program that focused today on Women in Science...

This post is related to yesterday's and takes into account some recurring themes in the comments. When applying for an academic position...

Sometimes there is a cosmic convergence of real life, email messages, and the blogosphere about a particular topic. This is one of those tim...

There are some obvious ways in which the current World Economic Crisis is affecting Academia -- students unable to pay tuition, academic and...