Dec 8, 2010
John Marson Dunaway French & Interdisciplinary Studies Mercer University [Dec 19, 2010] — During the long last weeks of fall semester, I sometimes get a bit bogged down by all the papers to be graded and committee work to be completed … not to mention the...
Sep 1, 2010
Phillip A. Bishop, Exercise Physiology University of Alabama [Sept. 12, 2010]– “We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up…discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” Eleanor Roosevelt Last year I...
Oct 7, 2009
Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Child and Adolescent Development San Jose State University [Oct 11, 2009] — I don’t do enough for my students. It took a note from a little girl in the Philippines to make me realize this. Last November I bought a jacket with a faux fur...
Nov 12, 2007
John F. Walkup Texas Tech University Electrical and Computer Engineering, Emeritus Faculty Commons National Faculty Representative During my first year as an assistant professor at Texas Tech, fresh out of graduate school, I quickly learned that there was really only...
Oct 22, 2007
Mark G. White, Chemical Engineering, Mississipi State [October 22, 2007] “Dr. White, we will lift up a timber for you on Sunday night.” These were the words of my receptionist, Miss Sandra, on Friday evening as I was leaving the office. Sandra is a Christian woman...
Apr 9, 2007
Kathryn Lindholm-Leary Child And Adolescent Development San Jose State I was speeding, and I knew it. It was the icing on the proverbial cake of a profoundly frustrating several days. My newly retired husband and I were building our “dream home” in a town 420 miles...
