If you are a female PI on a proposal that requires text about "Broader Impacts" (to use the NSF term), which may include the extent to which the proposed research activities increase (broaden) the participation of underrepresented groups, and if you...
Inflammation, cancer, and NF-κB
Cancer isn't a single disease, and there are many possible things that can "cause" even a single type of cancer. However, a lot of things basically work in the same general way to promote cancer. One way that's been long suspected though poorly understood...
Going To Those Lengths
So far I am only about 70 pages into the book by Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present, but I've already decided to get another copy of it for my mother for Christmas.Although I am not accustomed...
Ms Pilgrim
Not long ago, whilst traveling, I read The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell. I didn't read it for any particular seasonal reason, but by coincidence I read it close to the US Thanksgiving holiday (today).Towards the end of the book, after telling numerous...
You Choose
This is another example in the continuing saga of Choosing Excellent Grad Students. Of course, prospective grad students go through a similar guessing game when trying to choose an excellent adviser. On both sides of the experience there are people who...
Origin of Species celebrates 150 years of publication
There is a grandeur in this view of life, with itsseveral powers having been originally breathed intoa few forms or into one: and that while this planethas gone cycling on according to the fixed law ofgravity, from so simple a beginning endless formsmost...
Open Door Policy
Isn't it time for another poll? I think it is time for another poll. What I would like to know in today's poll is this:Do you, my faculty readers, have any particular policies or preferences re. having your office door open or closed when meeting with...
Educate to Innovate: Promoting Science and Math Education
President Obama is scheduled to announce a campaign to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to encourage students, especially in middle and high school, to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)....
Family Event Productivity Loss
One of the interesting aspects of the recent Center for American Progress report, Staying Competitive: Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences, is the recommendation that funding agencies and/or universities provide supplementary funds to "offset...
Diversity in Science Carnival #4 – Increasing Diversity among the college ranks
Exactly one year ago, I laid the roots to the Diversity in Science Carnival, but I did not know it. As I was beginning to assemble this edition, I found myself typing words, phrases and sentiments that were all too familiar.Something about the state...
Why Don't I Just Quit My Day Job
Sorry for the obnoxious title, but I get a lot of requests via my FSP email. I don't want to discourage people from emailing me: sometimes there are very interesting and important things that come my way via my FSP email, and I try to answer some.BUT:...
More Co-Advice
Yesterday I attempted to cover a few topics relevant to being co-advised and being a co-adviser. Today's continuation of the general topic of co-advising explores some of these topics further from the point of view of the co-adviser. As science and engineering...
Co-Advice
By popular demand (= 3 recent mail requests), my thoughts on co-advising, a topic I have only touched on obliquely before (as far as I can remember, anyway):One of the obvious benefits for a co-advised student is to have a somewhat high level of interaction...
Increasing STEM Diversity with Funding Opportunities
The best way for an institution to promote diversity among the scholars involved in STEM is to put their money where their mouths are. Funding outreach programs, research and educational opportunities, scholarships, and travel to conference is the most...
Sticker Shock
Many grants come with 'indirect costs' (a.k.a. 'overhead') calculated into their budgets.I understand why grants have indirect costs; i.e., the money that a university needs to help the grant-funded research to occur. IDC supposedly helps pay for the...
American Institute of Biological Sciences recognizes diversity in the biological sciences
Earlier this year I received an award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). AIBS is a scientific society of life science educators and researchers, K-12 teachers and college professors, dedicated to sharing biological discovery and...
Advice I Got
The recent post on "Kidlessness" elicted quite a few comments, some of which reminded me of a bit of comforting advice I got from another FSP years ago when I was sort of freaking out about the impending birth of my daughter.I had absolutely no interest...
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