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Undergraduates, you cannot do it all!
I asked the summer undergraduates in our group what they were going to do outside of class and research this coming fall. One is an officer in one of the big festivals. We have Diwali, Lunar New Year, and Carnaval … Continue reading
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Tagged extracurricular activities, projects, schedules, time, undergraduates, you can't do it all
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What are you paying your work-study students?
This is the time of year when we begin to think about our classes, the fall excitement, and a crop of new students coming through our doors. Many of those will qualify for work study. This is a federal program … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Undergraduates, Your lab group
Tagged fairness, minimum wage, Research, undergraduates, work study
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Giddy with the success of our undergrads and their posters
Today our six research undergraduates, Kai, Alicia, Libby, Stephanie, Olivia, and Daniela, presented their research on posters at the Fall Undergraduate Poster Session, scheduled to fall on parent’s weekend. We began planning at the beginning of the semester how they … Continue reading
Posted in Posters, Research, Teaching, The joy of teaching, Undergraduates
Tagged meetings, posters, Research, Undergrads, undergraduates
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How to motivate a graduate student
When you are motivated, ideas bubble up in the middle of any activity. When you are motivated, you find solutions and links across different areas of your endeavor. When you are motivated, you find joy that carries you through the … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate school, Research
Tagged butterflies, Graduate school, independence, joy, learning Ph.D., motivation, undergraduates
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Do you give extra credit in your classes? It should stretch your students.
My students want extra credit projects. But they also worry that if I offer them they become required. What to do? I think extra credit should be available because it takes advantage of a different kind of student energy. But … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, The joy of teaching
Tagged extra credit, grading, teaching, undergraduates
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The trouble with grading rubrics
Most of the advice I read about grading points to the importance of rubrics. Blackboard even lets me put a rubric up on the site. Why is this? What is a rubric? What is the trouble with rubrics? Well, according … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, The joy of teaching
Tagged Blackboard, Education, Educators, grading, K through 12, Rubric, Student, teaching, Thought, undergraduates, Wikipedia
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Do you have your own lab training activities?
We always worry about how well we communicate safe and accurate procedures to new students. We had several new undergrads join our lab last spring, so we decided to have a concentrated session of training on a Saturday. Debbie Brock … Continue reading
Undergraduates, stop before sending that email!
Even in the smallest, most elite universities, there are more students than professors in nearly every class. In my current biggest class there are 52 students. Imagine what it is like for me and my teaching assistants when students decide … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Undergraduates
Tagged Academic term, communication, email, professor, professors, syllabus, Teaching assistant, teaching assistants, undergraduates, Wikipedia
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Did you go to the undergraduate poster session at your university?
Yesterday was the spring poster session by Wash U undergrads. There were about 180 posters. Apparently they were organized according to submission date, so literature could be next to physics or biology. At first that baffled me, but then I … Continue reading
Are female professors invisible to undergrads?
One hundred percent of the last eight undergraduates to contact us about doing research in our laboratory have contacted my male partner and not me. Only one of these students was female. She too contacted only Dave. What is going … Continue reading
Posted in Genber bias, Undergraduates
Tagged bias, female scientists, Research, REU, sexism, summer programs, undergraduates
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