Mar 25, 2011
Eileen Buss, Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida [March 27, 2011] — It will be my second surgery within two months. The Lord has given me peace about the procedure, but the initial recovery time will be challenging and uncomfortable. The procedure...
Mar 1, 2011
Phillip A. Bishop, Exercise Physiology, University of Alabama [March 6, 2011] — We academics like quizzes. In 1911: a) Who was President of Harvard? b) Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics? c) Who was promoted to full professor? d) Who won the World Series? How’d...
Feb 9, 2011
Eileen Buss, Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida[Feb 20, 2011] — Will I ever be good enough? At times I can be overwhelmed by wearing different hats: As an associate professor: Do I bring in grant funding, am I publishing enough, are my teaching...
Feb 8, 2011
James Slack, Government, University of Alabama at Birmingham [Feb 13, 2011] — A torrential downpour met the morning as I drove to an inner city storefront church that ministers primarily to the homeless and near-homeless here in Birmingham. Freezing rain would...
Oct 13, 2010
John Walkup Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University [October 17, 2010] — Do you have mentors who strongly affected your Christian life? When I think back to my years in graduate school, I was powerfully influenced by Dave...
Oct 7, 2010
James D. Slack, Department of Government, University of Alabama at Birmingham [October 10, 2010] — Smack dab in the middle of a hallway, he darted out of a classroom and collided with me. As classes changed, John, an undergraduate, obviously wanted to be “first”...
