Academia:
Myles Brand is the prez of the NCAA. That's the National Collegiate Athletics Association. What does the NCAA do? It represents the interests of universities in promoting college sports. Does it also represent the interests of students and academia in...
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Posted on November 16, 2006 2:47 PM • 8 Comments
Ed has already pointed out Lee Bollinger's statement on free speech at Columbia University. I'm in total agreement with Ed and have nothing substantive to add, but I do have a quirky story that relates. My wife and I are...
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Posted on October 12, 2006 3:46 PM • 3 Comments
There I was, across from the offices of the Environmental Studies department at CU. A colleague I was visiting pointed out the scene pictured below and I knew I had to post it. I only had my cellphone cam, so...
Posted on September 14, 2006 12:44 PM • 7 Comments
...because I just checked my line on ratemyprofessor.com and it's all good. Sure, it's only one review, but I get a 5.0 overall rating! Unfortunately, there is some bad news. It was for class "plh 120." I have no idea...
Posted on August 9, 2006 10:36 PM • 2 Comments
Urgent campus memos were sent out today from Interim U. Colorado Chancellor Philip DiStefano. It's all public here. After conducting the due diligence I felt was necessary, I have issued a notice of intent to dismiss for cause to Professor...
Posted on June 26, 2006 4:53 PM • 1 Comments
...and actually, that's an understatement. Here's an early heads up on the release of the Churchill Report by the committee assigned to investigate allegations of research misconduct by him. Committee docs are here and the 125-page report is here. There...
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Posted on May 17, 2006 2:04 PM • 4 Comments
On Prometheus, Roger discusses a letter in Sunday's NY Times. Here's the upshot: fifteen members of the National Academy of Sciences, four of them Nobel laureates and almost all of them physicists, wrote a letter decrying the Bush Administration's handiwork...
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Posted on May 1, 2006 2:53 PM • 15 Comments
I have blogged a couple of times (link) on Carl Wieman leaving the U of Colorado, and the last post generated some interest in the comments. So today I thought I'd pass along an interesting op-ed published in the Colorado...
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Posted on March 29, 2006 12:34 PM • 7 Comments
Well not directly. I'm 99.9% sure he doesn't know who I am, much less has ever read this blog. Carl Wieman is a hyper-popular physics professor at the Univ. of Colorado (my current employer) who won the Nobel Prize in...
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Posted on March 21, 2006 3:48 PM • 8 Comments
On Thursday the NY Times ran a story strongly suggesting research misconduct. Nobody actually said "research misconduct" but they didn't have to. The story was about how a tenured Columbia University chemistry professor retracted two papers and part of a...
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Posted on March 18, 2006 5:22 PM • 2 Comments
Tell me more!
And he does and here's where it gets weird. Jay Taylor's newsletter actually contains the following passage, and not hidden, but displayed somewhat prominently, in large-type answer to the sentence noted above:
To find junior mining stocks with the greatest profit potential, Jay studied geology and completed virtually all of the required coursework for a B.A. in geology from Hunter College.
OH. MY. GOD.
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Posted on March 3, 2006 10:54 AM • 1 Comments
I did undergrad at UC Davis, which at the time was D-II and a many-time winner of the Sears Director's Cup for the best all-around D-II sports program in the U.S. (Stanford usually wins the D-I Sears. And so oh,...
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Posted on March 1, 2006 8:38 PM • 2 Comments
You have to love legislative language. A few peeps in the Colorado legislature are trying to revisit the post-tenure policies of all higher ed institutions in the state. Presumably this is in response to Ward Churchill's rants about WTC victims...
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Posted on February 25, 2006 1:52 PM • 2 Comments
Every college professor in the US is going to relate to today's story in the Times ("To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me"). My list is long and includes the obligatory "why didn't I get an A?" or "why...
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Posted on February 21, 2006 10:15 AM • 18 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
I don't usually post stuff not related to science or politics, but this is too good to pass up. The Colorado Daily reported today that the University of Colorado will pay former coach Gary Barnett $3M to buyout his contract....
Posted on February 7, 2006 4:40 PM • 0 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
