Before starting the PhD, there was a sense that there was no doubt it was a long journey ahead. I’m no stranger to long journeys or solo travel so the PhD was almost an Read More
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Common name: Rellie Goddard Taxonomy: Subterra troglodytes (DPhil Structural Geology) Rellie Goddard is an underground creature, most often found listening to 90’s music in the basement, while trying to make her rocks shiny. Like most Read More
International Women’s Day is never easy for me. I love celebrating other women, but I see myself as too awkward and abrasive to do anything worth celebrating. This year was especially hard, because it Read More
Are you excited to celebrate the fifth year of Peer Review Week? We sure are! As you know, Peer Review Week is a global event celebrated annually as a dedication to peer review, which plays Read More
“Thesis” flickr photo by IaninSheffield https://flickr.com/photos/ianinsheffield/43944925970 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Last week I submitted my thesis. No hoopla. No fanfare. No round of applause. It was merely a Read More
My name is Chelsea. I have known Meridith since I moved to Kentucky in 1996. That was 19 year ago! Before anything else, I would like to use this post as a forum to show some funny Read More
I was 2 months into my first semester of graduate school. The transition had been rough, socially and emotionally. I went from a close-knit on-campus community, one I had been a part of for 4 years, to Read More
Dear future Ollis, I envisioned you as a successful professor with great achievements and I’m really proud of you. I couldn’t wait to get here. But I wanted to remind you what it Read More
It was the week before Christmas when I had to deal with an academic bombshell. Well, I’m exaggerating a bit (as I’ll explain), but it had many of the hallmarks of a bombshell: Read More
In June of 2015, I was on the brink of turning 29 and had just signed all the papers to become the new owner of our little house by the ocean. A week later, I would be Read More
