Category Archives: academics
Grad Student Experiences in Leadership
This will be a different type of blog post. This is actually a blog post from 14 graduate students who are about to graduate (or graduated) from the Rutgers Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute (PLDI). This post is composed of short … Continue reading
What are community land trusts, anyway?
For the last five years, I’ve been reading, studying, and working with a form of tenureship called the community land trust (CLT). I’ve become very personally involved, serving both on the research and policy development committee for the National Community Land … Continue reading
Educational Jargon
As I have moved through my career as an educator and student of education, I have encountered numerous terms that, though unfamiliar at first, are now a part of my everyday vocabulary. Unlike terms associated with specific scientific disciplines, or … Continue reading
The Nonsense of Birds and Whispers of Thieves: Reclaiming Jargon
The Online Etymology Dictionary’s definition of jargon is a far cry from its usage in common academic parlance: “[U]nintelligible talk, gibberish; chattering, jabbering,” the definition begins, derived both from either a cacophony of animal sounds (the gibberish of birds), or … Continue reading
Teaching can equal lots and lots of grading…
As I have stated in a previous blog post I find that there are many advantages to being a teaching assistant, however, a major disadvantage is all the grading. For me, leading a three hour lab class twice a week … Continue reading
What do we study in Library and Information Science?
Library and Information Science (LIS) owes a considerable portion of its genesis to the concept of the document and to the process of organizing these unwieldy creatures. The relationship between a document and the concept of information (the all-knowing “I” … Continue reading
Research in Mathematics
Working in mathematics, I’ve found myself often asked the question “What do you do?” Sometimes the expected response is my “elevator pitch” (the short blurb about my area of expertise). But sometimes the question is more basic: “What is it … Continue reading
Research Methodologies in Laboratory Sciences- The Joys of Analytical Instrumentation
Obtaining a graduate degree would be so much easier if the analytical instrumentation would just work…For those of you would don’t have to run various chromatography instruments (ICs, HPLCs, GCs), thermo-cyclers, spectrophotometers, or any of the other numerous finicky pieces … Continue reading
Collaborative Hunting and Gathering
When I try to describe Comparative Literature to those unfamiliar with my field, I think back to the way one of my undergraduate professors put it. Comp Lit, she said, is like a mad scientist’s laboratory, except for the humanities. … Continue reading
Educational Research
In the field of education, there are many opportunities for research using a variety of methods. As part of the doctoral program, all students are required to take 4 courses in research methods divided between qualitative and quantitative methods. Depending … Continue reading
“Desktop Faculty Development” — the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List
One of the best online resources for graduate students, especially those aspiring to academic careers in research or teaching, has to be the Tomorrow’s Professor (TP) mailing list: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Tomprof/index.shtml Managed by Rick Reis, a professor of engineering at Stanford, the … Continue reading
Identity, Goals, and Diversity in Interdisciplinary Research
While I was an undergraduate physics major, my interests and research experiences were quite clearly of the pure physics variety: particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics. There was never any question about my scientific identity or goals — I was unambiguously a … Continue reading
Feet in (At Least) Two Worlds
Every discipline has its subfields…and subfields of subfields. This is very much the case in Anthropology where the Cultural (and Linguistic) wing is a completely different world from the Physical (and Archaeological) wing. Of course there is a shared history, … Continue reading
Media Mouthfeel
Who am I? I thought I dispensed with such philosophical wormholes after the teenage angst years. My first year as a doctoral student at Rutgers has proved me wrong. Although the angst has mellowed now in my late 30s, I … Continue reading
Spring Break as Conference Prep Time
When I was an undergrad, Spring Break meant a whole week to do absolutely nothing. Some years that meant traveling to a warmer locale with friends, others were of the “staycation” variety, but in both cases Rest and Relaxation were … Continue reading
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