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Math Geek Mom: Utility Maximization
Several weeks ago, an article ran in Inside Higher Ed about the interest of many graduate students in jobs that...
The best idea yet for greening campus IT
When I do a sustainability audit for departments on campus, one of the things I look for is "converters" or...
Motherhood After Tenure: Does Parenting Matter?
Is it just me, or has there been a spate of publications suggesting that your child’s intelligence, personality, and future...
Things I've Learned from The Boy
A few days ago, we did a post-dinner Home Depot run. It wasn't terribly successful, and it was cold, and...
ABCs and PhDs: Recruitment
This season, the biology doctorate program in which I work had a wonderfully diverse, interesting and impressive pool of applicants...
The Bookstore Conundrum
A returning correspondent writes: As a Ph.D. student who actually purchases most of the books on the required lists, I'm...
No cold feet
Back when he was in seventh grade, my son undertook a science fair project. For 60 days he monitored the...
Ask the Administrator: What the Fish?
A new correspondent writes: After recently reading Stanley Fish's NY Times blog on education, I felt moved to write in...