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It’s Sunday, the babies are asleep, and it’s a good time to freshen up the predictions list. So, with the announcement less than three weeks away, here is my official list of odds against winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As is the custom, the candidates are sorted below by discovery/invention rather than by [ ]
Welcome to our new replacement instructor. He s still learning the ropes of organic chemistry and remote instruction.
After doing some experimenting this week, I’m feeling much better about the ability to communicate online by drawing Lewis structures. Our university purchased a license for Zoom, and it has a whiteboard feature that is pretty easy to use. I find it much easier to draw using a tablet, and fortunately, I have an iPad [ ]
I think I’ve shared this on the blog before, but almost my entire approach to teaching is based on the experiences I had in high school and college. As much as possible, I resolved to eliminate all of the crap that I detested as a student. I disliked attendance/participation points, which were most often instituted [ ]
So, my university has suspended in-person classes until March 23rd, and the rumor mill is buzzing that we are probably likely to follow suit with other universities that have decided to transition to online coursework for the remainder of the semester. At the very least, we are supposed to spend next week preparing for that [ ]
Hello, friends. Long time, no speak. I’m just checking in to say… Our department is looking to hire a non-tenure-track Assistant Professor to start in August. Before getting into the behind-the-scenes details, here’s the official ad: Saint Louis University, a Catholic Jesuit institution dedicated to student learning, research, health care, and service seeks applicants for [ ]
Watching the live stream and weighing in with babble: 4:48 am They re here! 4:49 am This always gets my blood pumping. 4:50 am Wow DNA repair, but not the 2015 Lasker Award winners for DNA repair. 4:52 am The winning scientists: Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar 4:58 am I d [ ]
The announcement is less than an hour away, so I guess I should post my official list of odds against winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Last Thursday, I weighed in with my predictions on an ACS Webinar, so I don t feel too late. You can watch a recording of the session here. As [ ]
Another summer has come to an end, and we re already two weeks deep into the fall semester. I spent part of my last day of summer freedom updating my calendar for the semester, and it was not pretty. So many classes, so many office hours, so many meetings. I ve seen a variety of approaches that [ ]
My friend Tania put up this photo on her Instagram yesterday, which reminds me of a post I ve wanted to write about chemistry T-shirts: Good shirt or greatest shirt? Proud to be wearing #ChemBark Asset #0000003. @chembarkblog #roundbottomflask #chemlife A photo posted by Tania (@prunesmith) on Sep 3, 2015 at 11:12am PDT That [ ]