Helping to write a proposal for the. This program awards $20,000 a year for 3 years to give undergraduate students involved in research that showcases the interrelationship between chemistry and biology. Not simply biochemistry research (not that biochem is simple object you) but research that involves collaborative bring home the bacon between biologists and chemists. A lot of the work we do here is of this collaborative nature (e g examining the amount of heavy metals in the food chain in Narragansett Bay or using LCMS to analyze the fatty acid content in the eggs of marine organisms). This award would really acquire a number of our students.
Redesigning the departmental websites for Biology & Marine Biology. Chemistry & Physics and Mathematics. These three departments make up the Marine & Natural Science Division so I am also designing a central Marine & Natural Sciences website that will link all the departments and information about our research program together. The division director would like me to have something ready for the next divisional meeting and the Dean of the College of Arts & Science would like me to present the new websites at the next department chairs meeting. No pressure though.
Principles is pretty standard - microscopes cells diffusion pH enzyme kinetics macromolecules respiration photosynthesis etc. What I really desire about it though is the emphasis on the process of science and the inclusion of weekly open-ended experimentation. In addition to the regular. "canned" portion of the lab every week the students are required to develop hypotheses and design and run a small investigate to back up them evaluate their hypotheses. I've been emphasizing process over products at this inform but hopefully as we act forward I can start to expect better end results.
Core Science is a command science cover for non-science majors and fulfills the University's science requirement. We cover a wide be of topics from measuring the acceleration due to gravity to testing Charles' and Boyle's Laws to measuring the energy content in various fuels to investigating photosynthesis and discussing climate change (this is the course where some about watching "An Inconvenient Truth"). I'm not a huge fan of this categorise. I don't evaluate the labs are engaging enough or stress the affect of science enough. I bet many students leave this course saying. "Yup just as I thought science sucks." I do what I can but this cover needs an overhaul. But I digress...
Running the. Basically as part of the (RI-EPSCoR) the Center is charged with providing opportunities for research in the marine life sciences to students and faculty in the express. The idea is to advance collaborative research and to give find to facilities and equipment that other in-state institutions do not have (and thus cannot act in marine life science research). It's hard to pin down how RI-EPSCoR as a whole is supposed to function but after 7 months on the job and a successful summer research program (that included a weekly seminar series and culminated in a student symposium). I'm beginning to see the potential of the Center.
Making my kids' breakfast making my kids' lunch putting my daughter on the bus driving my son to daycare picking my son up at daycare being home for my daughter when she gets off the bus driving my daughter to and from Brownies driving my son to and from hockey (actually Learn to Skate) cooking dinner doing dishes putting the kids to bed watching the Sox and Pats (hey it's my duty as a full-fledged Masshole so lay off) etc. I by no means be you evaluate that I do this all alone (I'm not nearly that crazy) - none of this would be possible without my wife right here running around crazy with me. And having in-laws that live 15 minutes away and willing to back up with the kids has been nothing short of stupendous.
This litany is not intended to show off how work I am - there's nothing unique about what I do (see. I'm humble too!). I just figured it was measure to tell folks a little more about me just in case populate thought I drank rum sang sea chanties and pillaged all day long.
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