Handling Problems

Michael Atchison, Biochemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania [Dec. 3, 2012] Sitting across the desk from me, one of my students was crying.  In her seventh year of the combined-degree VMD-PhD program that I direct at the University of Pennsylvania, she had just broken up...

Conversations

Susan Siaw, Professor of Development Psychology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA [Nov 18, 2012] Over the years, as Christian faculty at Cal Poly Pomona, we’ve paid for an ad to be placed in the campus newspaper.   I was the person who...

No External Reality?

John Walkup, Emeritus Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University Faculty Commons Staff [October 28, 2012] There is no external reality. Life is what we perceive it to be. That was Tom’s expressed perspective. There was so much to like about him: his...

Interruptions

Dan Jensen Professor of  Engineering Mechanics U.S. Air Force Academy [Oct 21, 2012] This morning I was extremely busy.  A student in my current discipleship group unexpectedly stopped by my office. I almost told him that I couldn’t talk right now. Fortunately, the...

So What’s Your Question?

David Janzen, Computer Science, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo [Sept.3, 2012]– I knew I wanted to hire Josh* (not his real name) for a summer research position based only on reading his application, but I asked him to come to my office so I could meet him. I wanted...

No April Fool

Noel Caldwell, Engineering (Retired), Midlands Technical College, Columbia, South Carolina [April 1, 2012]– I had always liked Charlie and considered him an asset to the college. He was one of my industrial area department heads when I was Dean of Engineering...