I Caught Her Cheating

Wes Fondren, Communication, Coastal Carolina University [Nov 9, 2009]– Recently, I watched a student cheat on a mid-term. She pushed the jacket sleeve of her left arm up to her elbow, looked at her forearm, then wrote something down on the test. After glancing...

The Little Decisions

Mark Pritchard, Director Northwest Center for Sport Business College of Business, Central Washington University [Oct. 26, 2009] — Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite...

Going With the Flow – Or Following the Call?

Joseph McRae Mellichamp Emeritus Professor of Management Science The University of Alabama [Oct. 19,2009] — I celebrated my 70th birthday this summer, and much as I hate to admit it, I spent the first half of my life going with the flow rather than following any...

Spherical Cows and Mars Hill

Robert Kaita, Plasma Physics Princeton [Sept 13, 2009]– There’s an old joke that goes like this. Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the dairyman wrote to a local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was...

Making The Most Of My Time

Joseph McRae Mellichamp Emeritus Professor of Management Science The University of Alabama Faculty Commons National Field Representative As the new academic year begins, I would like to ask you to consider how you are investing your time. If you are like most...

Grant Review

Mark Geil, Kinesiology and Health, Georgia State University [ April 24, 2009 ] — I’ve just finished the last of 14 NIH grant proposal reviews and I am exhausted. I’ve been on both sides of the process – reviewer and reviewee – so I try to spend a lot of time on...