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• Well, which is it? ±? • On the morning when we were supposed to be on our way to AK for volunteer service work, Wife decided to do a COVID-19 home test. D-minus-3 days before, she had been en route back home from a late-developing work trip in NV and had started feeling an … More Positive Amid Negative
• Living as an evangelical Christian • I told my physical therapist that I’d be out for a few weeks because I was going to Alaska. Hearing a bit of news like that always makes people think “cruise”; which would be fine if the team of us was actually going on a cruise. So I … More Yes, People Actually Do That
I’m sure most jobs have aspects that are not part of the job description. They’re the stuff of water cooler conversations. And if the bulk of your job requires working with students, the drama can increase dramatically. How you react to an interaction can then make it the stuff of legend. Enter an honors student. … More Life Coach: A Legend in Their Own…
“Would you give me a list of acceptable journals for doing my research?” It seems like a reasonable question to ask, but the nature of scholarly information makes it easy to answer in an unexpected way: No. It’s a problem I face every time a department goes through accreditation and asks me to provide a … More Credible Journals
Being a university librarian affords me some amazing opportunities. Like the chance to attend a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate. Every year Arcadia University awards an honorary degree to 2 individuals at both our graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. This year we honored Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, M.D., and 1985 Nobel Prize laureate … More Lectured by a Nobel Prize Laureate and Returning the Favor
Using Google to identify images. … More Short and Sweet: Use Google Well
As a perfectionist, I annoy the completionists around me who just want to get the task done. Over the years, I’ve learned to give up some of my tendencies. I know I’m far from, uh, perfect. This morning I approached my office to find the work table outside the front of it missing. That might … More Completionists Can Be Really Annoying
[4 MIN READ] My father was a mechanical engineer and my mother continues to practice fine art. Their combination of genes certainly contributed to my success as an undergrad at the University of Chicago (where the Common Core was refined) taking physics along with Greek Thought and Literature. I’ve long been about connections—connecting across disciplinary … More The Official Calvin Wang Fan Club
• Cognitive development of the college student • [4 MIN READ] A few years ago I read an article about the cognitive development of the college student. It stood out to me because it described how students enter their undergraduate years with a dualistic view of the world. Through their 4 years of college, they … More Dualism and Gradations
I wrote once before about my practice of teaching people to pronounce my name the native Chinese way: Wäng. Lately I’ve spent more time and taken more opportunities to urge other people to teach Americans to say their names in authentically native ways. Sometimes those people are Chinese, but not always. Recently, I went to … More Expecting Native Pronunciation of Names
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