Joint Annual Meeting, Day 1
I’m liveblogging the Joint Annual Meeting of the HRD directorate programs, and although the internez is spotty, I will update as we can. We began the morning with a keynote by Dr. Wanda Ward, Assistant...
View ArticleJAM Redux: Talking with the media about your research
Blog friend Pat Campbell and her colleagues Susan Metz, and Jennifer Weisman gave a great talk at JAM on getting your research message out to the press. Key ideas, themselves tailored to this audience:...
View ArticleJAM redux: What do you write in your NSF annual reports?
At JAM last week, a really useful session was conducted by Nakeina Douglas, an assistant professor in the L Douglass Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth. She also is...
View ArticleJAM redux: a summary
Okay, so I have recovered from my visit to Washington, and my first JAM conference. Here are some highlights that are more edited than my lame live-blogging post is. I didn’t realize how big JAM is —...
View ArticleAnd so conference season continues…
Somehow I’ve survived this week with only one really big “oops” (an IRB application I should have turned in weeks ago), and I am off tomorrow to continue my conference tour. I’m heading to a workshop...
View ArticleOn the value of finding time for one’s self while conferencing
When I first started to go to conferences, I couldn’t see what people saw in them. I didn’t know anyone, I thought lots of the sessions were boring, and I found the whole thing overly stressful to deal...
View Articlewomen in astronomy 2009: meeting the challenges of an increasingly diverse...
A wonderful and alert reader writes: i know you have lots of astronomer readers, so you probably already know about this, but just in case not: http://wia2009.gsfc.nasa.gov/ this is a conference whose...
View ArticleBringing babies to conferences
A. Non Mouse, who blogs over at NaCl and hv, has just written a great series of posts about her strategies for successfully bringing a baby to a conference. Check out her how-to posts on childcare,...
View ArticleFIE 2009: Join us to discuss feminist and alternative pedagogies and research...
I’m digging out of a mound of to-dos, but wanted to make you aware of two opportunities to explore feminist pedagogies and research methods in engineering education at the 2009 FIE later this month....
View ArticleMy year of travel
Okay. It’s been another month since I blogged. But since I last wrote, my dad wrote the family holiday letter and asked me how many places I’ve traveled to. Here’s the list. January To Detroit to look...
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