Baking is one way I can create something physical, something obviously useful: I can eat it, powering my brain to...watch cartoons.

Staying home is doing something productive - probably the most productive thing you can do for society.

We should be staying in as much as we can. We should be helping our neighbors. We should be remotely checking in with friends and family.

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Flat Rock, North Carolina (just south of Asheville) with ten of the women in my extended family. We were gathering for my aun...

Last week, our geology department club hosted a trivia night as a fun way to end the semester. Of course, we extended an invitation to everyone in the depart...

During my first year – actually, before I even technically started grad school but was working in the lab – my advisor told me how important organization was...

It's seven p.m. and you're just getting home from a nine-hour day filled with labwork, undergrads, writing, and meetings in between. The sun is getting lower...

The third year of your Ph.D. is weird. You’ve passed your qualifying exams, probably have a focus for your thesis, and the second half of grad school lies ah...

I spent my break doing everything but work. We went on a cruise (my first ever) in the Caribbean, where I mostly avoided the partiers and read many books ove...

This semester is nearly almost over. Not quite almost over, but… nearly. I’m into my third year – halfway through my PhD if all goes well – and I’m feeling i...

For the first two years of grad school - and possibly while I was working in the lab as an undergraduate - my advisor warned of the third-year, or post-preli...