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Comment on Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man by faydanamyjake

faydanamyjake — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:13:06 +0000

I believe nature/nurture is more 50/50.

Comment on Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man by faydanamyjake

faydanamyjake — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:10:17 +0000

She showed him kindness, that can never be a bad thing. shame he had to tantrum first food is never worth fighting over.

Comment on Why study physics? The difficult sell by Eric okorie

Eric okorie — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:00:34 +0000

It a good eye opener. I will need more information on areas a Physicist can work
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Comment on Old prep, new prep, I prep, you prep by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:37:05 +0000

We have a nominal policy of “teach 3 times and then rotate” in our department. Some courses are taught every year, some every other year. Most of us like to teach most of the courses, so that keeps us happy. And, of course, there are a couple of courses we like to avoid (mostly seminar since inviting all the speakers is a hassle) and this model works for that, too. I’ve taught Modern Physics Lab something like 12 times in a row, and I’d love a break on that, though I would say I’ve made modest changes/improvements in that course almost every time.

Comment on Service and happiness by acdalal

acdalal — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:25:39 +0000

“…suddenly it felt as if people had tried to protect my time pre-tenure for the express purpose of being able to ask for my time post-tenure.” Yes. This. Exactly. And the problem is that the requests come in a rush, pretty much as soon as you get off the phone with the dean, and it’s hard to figure out in the early stages what you can and can’t say no to…and then you find yourself committed to all sorts of things and wondering what the hell happened.

Comment on Service and happiness by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:30:17 +0000

This year I transitioned out of being chair and into a “divisional coordinator” role. The new role is more of a strategic planning one, and less of a tactical sign-everyone’s-form role. I continue to be amazed at how many emails I get to (giddily) forward on to the new chair. My partner saw that I was burned out well before I did. I’m glad she kept pushing me to make a change.

Comment on Readings for undergraduate women in STEM? by Does gender bias play a role in the leaky pipeline after all? | Science by Summer

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:32:57 +0000

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Comment on Why study physics? The difficult sell by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:39:22 +0000

Ted Hodapp, who’s from Hamline and now at the APS, does a great talk about a lot of this. He’s the one who really helped me understand how we need to tell our students not to expect to find a “physicist” job. The other job/career possibilities you mention here are great options to have, and many of them “make a difference” as you say. I like to say that physics is the 21st century liberal arts major. That’s not to say I’m overly good at convincing people who are dead set on being, say, a chemist.

Comment on Readings for undergraduate women in STEM? by Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:52:14 +0000

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

Comment on Readings for undergraduate women in STEM? by Bitsy

Bitsy — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:15:11 +0000

I might have them critically watch http://blog.ted.com/2010/12/21/why-we-have-too-few-women-leaders-sheryl-sandberg-on-ted-com/ . I would look for something by Nancy Hopkins, maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQUB3LeJEJE or http://video.mit.edu/watch/a-conversation-with-nancy-hopkins-7705/ or something from http://web.mit.edu/gep/about.html . I know talking about things that in the area of sexual harassment seems like a real drag and being down on the world, but coming across peoples lude comments about other women, etc. have been the biggest shocks for me.