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I'm guessing you can tell a lot about someone by what inhabits the back of their car. At the moment I have the following in my trunk: 2 pairs of rubber boots 1 pair of gloves 2 towels 4 reusable grocery bags that haven't seen the inside of a store in some time makeshift first [...]
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A comment from Emilio Bruna last weeks's post encapsulates a mentality that is common in review recipients, manuscript or proposal. I actually think a much bigger reason a (pre)proposal might not make it through in one year or panel when it would in a different one is the luck of the draw wrt the three [...]
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Now that the semester is done I always find it useful to jot a few notes down for my January 2014 self who will be stressing about getting this class together again just after the NSF deadline. I took a slightly different teaching approach this year, incorporating ideas like Think - Pair - Share and [...]
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One of the biggest concerns I hear about NSF review is that reviews vary from one panel to the next. People who get good scores in one round and just miss funding scream bloody murder when their proposals doesn't score as well in the next round. "Damn inconsistent panels! Last year they loved it and [...]
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Terry, over at SmallPondScience, has a post up about the misuse of the term "deadwood" and how many who are labeled as such are still deadicated to their jobs, but have inadvertently drifted away from what we consider productive colleagues. These colleagues have become driftwood. You might be driftwood if your teaching relies on concepts [...]
