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Thanks to a grant from Rice and IIT Madras, my PhD student and I had the opportunity to travel to Chennai and Bangalore to collect data, kick off a new project, host a workshop, and spend time in the literal forest that is the IIT Madras campus. PhD student and I in front of the IIT Madras front gate during...
Read more →Assuming that most readers are civilians (i.e., non-academics): summers are for research, and research (kind of) requires conferencing. There exists a wide spectrum of conferences. On the one hand, you have small conferences on specialized topics where everybody actually attends the sessions. On the other hand, you have large conferences where very few people – sometimes only the presenters –...
Read more →I’m a millennial academic. As a millennial, I have participated in the entire gamut of online bloggery: Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogspot, Blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress (which is still floating around out there), and the like. As an avid consumer and producer of long-form writing, I love blogging. And with the ubiquity of today’s short-form media, I think that blogging is a lost...
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