Overcoming challenges. Being challenged to overcome. This is the topic for April’s edition of Scientiae, and I received an overwhelming response of your varied tales of challenge and triumph. Further proof that all of us are capable of facing our problems head-on and growing into wiser, more competent people.
The carnival is based out of Candid [...]
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april scientiae – challenges!
Posted in alternative careers, passions, personal story, women on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
wandering to a career
Posted in alternative careers, passions, personal story on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a new blog (All my faults are stress related) on Science Blogs from a structural geologist – in her “about me” description she tells of the winding path she took to get to this career:
I became a structural geologist by accident. I meant to study chemistry, but chemists spent too much time inside. [...]
ho ho ho – need a quick present?
Posted in misc cool stuff, personal story on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a new book that sounds interesting – suitable for chemists and ex-chemists:
THE ALCHEMY OF AIR
A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
By Thomas Hager
Harmony Press. 316 pp. $24.95
Somehow fertilizer seems an unlikely subject for a Faustian tale about pride, vanity [...]
even twisty roads lead somewhere
Posted in personal story, writer on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Altrenative Scientist has another good personal post. The author began with a dream of becoming an academic but twists and bumps in the road landed her in a writing career. But that doesn’t mean she is far from science – as she puts it:
I am now a scientific writer and editor for a [...]
wanna talk about it?
Posted in alternative careers, personal story on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new blog has just been started that aims to discuss different job opportunities for scientists:
The Alternative Scientist
The about page states:
The Alternative Scientist is a blog about alternative career options for scientists. There are many career paths for a scientist in addition to the traditional tenure track, and the goal of this blog is to [...]
what would be your choice?
Posted in misc cool stuff, personal story on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Comm-oddities
Designer’s ashes buried in Pringles can
Monday, June 2, 2008 The Associated Press
The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that he asked that a portion of his ashes be buried in one of the iconic cans.
Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice [...]
in a nutshell – a very large nutshell!
Posted in decisions, personal story on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the May Scientiae Carnival at “A Cat Nap”.
The theme this month is career choices. If you are thinking about careers and want to know if anyone has been-there-done-that, you NEED to read these blogs! Most are written by women from a female perspective but the wisdom is applicable to all.
In fact, check [...]
6 in 1!
Posted in alternative careers, personal story on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the ACS meeting in New Orleans at the beginning of April – what fun!
But I was there partly with my Careers Committee hat on and so I attended the session on Careers in Chemical Information chaired by Lisa Balbes and co-sponsored by a number of acryonyms: CHAL, PROF, COMP, CEPA, and WCC.
They [...]
another food post…kinda…
Posted in alternative careers, personal story on April 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
ACS just missed a must-see event in New Orleans! This weekend (days after the 25,000 chemists left town) there was an oyster-eating contest. Numerous professional eaters (there seems to be such a thing!) congregated to eat oysters, and oyster and oysters….one of the top three was a “former chemistry professor from Ninjing University” [...]
using your chemistry super power to do good….
Posted in misc cool stuff, personal story, university professor on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Polanyi just won the Herzberg Gold Medal in Canada! (For all you non-Canadians, this is the highest award in science and engineering you can get in this country.) But in addition to doing great science (a Nobel prize winner in 1986), he is also has spoken out for peace and just lately for [...]
