May 2010
4 posts
Impact
OK so you have the data reasonably well organized and it supports an idea about beyond anything that’s been published to date. Congratulations! Now publish it yourself before anyone else scoops you. For an academic scientist that means a respected peer-reviewed journal. There are lots of other ways to disseminate your work but you absolutely must get it into a journal; which one?
You want...
Graduation
The formalities of graduation, we are told, descend directly from the ancient universities of England and their roots in the monastic tradition. Perhaps, but it certainly feels like it: graduations are always the same, proud parents, the occasional notes of measured rebellion, a mace, and streams of students becoming former students. I love it. First grown-up professors never get to play dress...
Fundamentals of Food Science
I spent all of this morning teaching food chemistry as part of a “Fundamentals of Food Science” shortcourse my department offers under the direction of my colleague Dr. Kerry Kaylegian. The program is aimed at people working in the food industry who might lack a background in food science. Perhaps you have just trained as a mechanical engineer and are now working at a ketchup plant. You know a...
“When I was growing up ‘elitism’ was a word sneered from the lips of the Left,...”
– Stephen Fry (http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/05/04/how-i-will-vote/6/) 