Science the Second Time Around: Plenitude Today
Editor’s note: In this ongoing series, “Science the Second Time Around,” IU author and mythologist Gregory Schrempp is sharing his experience going “back to school” in science with support from a New Frontiers Experimentation grant from the IU Office of the Vice President for Research. The astronomy course I recently finished auditing changed direction at mid-term. The […]
Science the second time around: Anthropomorphic complexity
Editor’s note: In this ongoing series, “Science the Second Time Around,” IU author and mythologist Gregory Schrempp is sharing his experience going “back to school” in science with support from a New Frontiers Experimentation grant from the IU Office of the Vice President for Research. Mythologists are used to the claim that myths are unscientific because they […]
Science the second time around: Cosmology from within and without
Editor’s Note: In this ongoing series, “Science the Second Time Around,” IU author and mythologist Gregory Schrempp is sharing his experience going “back to school” in science with support from a New Frontiers Experimentation grant from the IU Office of the Vice President for Research. I recently had my first amazing experience in the class. It came […]
Fossilized embryo research garners career award for IU biologists
Academic collaborations start out in a lot of ways, but sometimes the most fruitful research arises from opportunities in front of people the whole time. That was certainly the case for two IU biologists recently honored as recipients of the 2015 Distinguished Career Award from the Geological Society of America during the organization’s annual meeting in Baltimore on […]
Science the second time around: Doing the math
Editor’s Note: In this ongoing series, “Science the Second Time Around,” IU author and mythologist Gregory Schrempp is sharing his experience going “back to school” in science with support from a New Frontiers Experimentation grant from the IU Office of the Vice President for Research. In my early career as a mythologist, I focused mostly on […]
Science at Work: Cowboys, hot peppers and sea turtles….at Indiana University?
It is an Indiana science blog so how often are cowboys, hot peppers and sea turtles going to pop up as topical in an east-of-the-Mississippi, oceanfront-devoid, tomato-over-capiscum lovin’ environment? More often than not, actually, thanks to the incredibly diverse family of researchers found within the Indiana University system, highlighted most recently by a series of […]
Welcome! It’s Science at Work: The Blog!
And as far as Indiana University’s physicists, anthropologists, informaticists, statisticians, biologists and others of the “hard” or “STEM” sciences go, this blog will presuppose to reflect on the science work that’s already completed, that is still under way, and that is still to be done – the stuff of NSF and NIH pre-proposals – with […]
