Scholarships for Chemists at All Levels

Take a look at this story in C&EN that describes scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students interested in nuclear engineering. The Department of Energy is offering a total of $5 million for awards ranging from $5000 to $50,000.

http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/88/i12/html/8812govc4.html

Details emerge on NIH use of stimulus money

Some details are beginning to emerge on how the NIH will spend its $10B share of the stimulus package

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55438/

‘The Courage to Teach’

Jeff D. recommended ‘The Courage to Teach’, by Parker Palmer.  The message here is about idea-centered, as opposed to teacher- or student-centered, learning.

‘How Information Works’ workshop

This past Monday and Wednesday I attended a workshop sponsored by the Kendall Center at Gustavus called ‘How Information Works’; there are many useful links at the blog site for the workshop.

Controlling figure size and position in Matlab

Today I learned that the size and position on screen for figures is easily controlled. The key commands are ‘ScreenSize’ and ‘Position’. Matlab help gives adequate guidance here.

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