personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
May 28th 2008General
Job interview yesterday. It went well! They liked me! Woohoo! (Clearly they haven’t talked to my current boss yet. Although he supposedly has nothing but good things to say about his students, no matter what he really thinks about them. Which is nice, I guess, but
Jun 13th 2005heart & nerd alert
Spent the afternoon coming up with a heat sink to put on the controller for a new part. Wound up with a metal box that
Mar 17th 2005nerd alert
Went to the CSIE seminar today on “building a diverse faculty”. This began, of course, with the assumption that we want a “diverse” faculty, because Diversity Is Good. Period. What struck me as interesting was the combination of two points: First, that men and women don’t have any innate difference in capacity to do science, [...]