Sep 9, 2009
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...
May 1, 2009
Sam Matteson, Physics, University of North Texas [ May 1, 2009 ] —“Dr. Matteson, will you please say ‘grace’?” All eyes turned toward me (the chairman) when Sharon, my new staff member who had coordinated the departmental Christmas potluck, asked this. I paused...
Apr 17, 2009
Julianne Treme, Economics and Finance, University of North Carolina- Wilmington [ April 17, 2009 ] Recently while both of us were attending a conference, my department chair asked if I had ever seen the television show “24.” I admitted that I had not, and was met...
Mar 13, 2009
Phillip A. Bishop, Exercise Physiology University of Alabama The past two days I participated in our annual regional conference of the American College of Sports Medicine. I thought that I would be going to a professional meeting to talk only about the rather mundane...
Jan 25, 2009
Ken Elzinga, Economics, University of Virginia [Jan 25, 2009 ] — It was a Jewish colleague of mine, a very dear friend, who, early in my career told me that I owed it to my students to let them know what made me tick as a professor. He said, “You have colleagues...
Nov 19, 2008
John Walkup Emeritus, Electrical Engineering Texas Tech University My freshman year at Dartmouth (above) I was terribly homesick, missing family and close friends back in Seattle and struggling to understand my new faith in Jesus. I Was Miserable I was in a...
