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Dr. Ashanti Pyrtle: Combining a love of science with a passion for mentoring
Dr. Ashanti Pyrtle is an assistant professor in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida. She’s a chemical oceanographer who studies the fate, transport and retention of...
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Open house flogging: Come visit our program!
It’s that time of the year again when folks may be thinking about graduate school opportunities, and what with the current economic climate, maybe more than possible. If you’d be interested in finding...
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Blogging my course design process (part 1.1)
After articulating that my most dire need is to get funded, it may seem disjointed to embark on a series of blog posts about teaching, but there you have it, the life of a professor at a place that...
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Setting goals for a course on Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Course...
As introduced yesterday, I’m blogging my way through the SERC tutorial on course design, for a new graduate-only course on experimental design and data analysis. Yesterday, I explained the context and...
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Ancillary skills goals (course design 1.3)
Now that things at ScienceBlogs have returned to normal, and I’ve drawn down my stash of reader emails, it’s time to get back to work on my series on course design. For those who haven’t been playing...
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Adding content to the new course (Course design 1.4)
To recap, I’m prepping a new graduate level course on experimental design and data analysis (EDDA) that will serve MS and PhD students from geosciences and civil and environmental engineering. I’ve...
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In which SciWo risks coming off as callous…
It has recently been brought to my attention that a subset of my department’s graduate student population is unhappy with our course scheduling. Some of our part-time graduate students feel that we are...
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Optimal class schedules depend on institutional and program mission
Yesterday I wrote a post where I laid out reasons why I am opposed to night school courses in my graduate program. As I said yesterday, “I am against accommodating our full-time worker, part-time...
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Grad students’ perspectives on the scientific method
Remember this summer when I was working on the course design for my new prep on Experimental Design and Data Analysis? We’re now a month into the class, and while it has had its rough moments, I think...
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Why junior faculty are so horrible to their grad/post-doc staff
I had a realization over the weekend, as I contemplated the enormity of the amount of work I had to do, and the scant allowance of time in which to do it. I have suddenly realized why (at least junior)...
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