Terry McGlynn

24
Jul

What’s up with the new NSF GRFP priority areas?

The new solicitation for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program arrived last night with NSF’s daily digest bulletin. There
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20
Jul

Making sure your online course has what it needs

For a lot of us, this Fall will be our first experience teaching fully online. This shouldn’t be like
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17
Jul

Recommended reads #177

Rich Lenski’s excellent guide: “How to write a response to reviewers in ten easy steps.” (As an author this
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13
Jul
Sign up now for EEB Mentor Match 2020

Sign up now for EEB Mentor Match 2020

Not everything about 2020 is horrible: We’re running EEB Mentor Match again! More than ever this year, undergraduates from
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12
Jul

The balancing act of risk management and protecting long-term welfare of the institution

It must be so difficult to be in charge of a university right now. This is a critical moment for
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11
Jul

Thoughts on the absurdity of teaching on campus in the Fall

Over the past several months, higher education has been a theater of the pragmatic and the absurd. At this writing,
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18
Jun

Recommended reads #176

An extremely helpful guidebook to HyFlex teaching. (Which is when courses are delivered both in person and online at the
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04
Jun
Recommended reads #175

Recommended reads #175

‘Keep the volume low’: Being black on campus “The world has never been fundamentally fair and decent for most people
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29
May

Recommended reads #174

Here is a piece of educational research on the relationship between undergraduate research and depression, another product Brownell lab at
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19
May

Should we be using EdTech surveillance tools because of the pandemic?

When we made the switch to online because of the pandemic, I imagine we all were asking ourselves: “How can
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