Nursing professor Dr. Bette Moore explores life after death in new book, "The Dreaming Road" [vanderbilthustler.com]

The flava:
As an associate professor at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, Dr. Bette Moore performs research in the importance of mother-infant skin to skin contact after birth and its relationship to mother-infant bonding and breastfeeding. But after the suicide of her daughter, she began an emotional journey around mother and child bonding that she describes in her new book, The Dreaming Road.

The article:
http://vanderbilthustler.com/campus/nursing-professor-dr-bette-moore-explores-life-after-death-in-new-book-the-dreaming-road.html

March Madness at the College of the Holy Cross [National Review]

"A theology professor slated to become a department chairman has some arguably blasphemous theories about — the Holy Cross."

The article:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/holy-cross-theology-professor-offensive-theories-jesus/

Former dean William Strampel faces 4 charges, 4 victims detail incidents [statenews.com]

The flava:

Strampel was arrested Monday evening and was held in the Ingham County Jail system, according to jail records.

In addition to one charge of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct — a high court misdemeanor which could carry up to two years in prison — Strampel also faces a felony count of misconduct in

office and two misdemeanors willful neglect of duty as a public officer. 

The article:

http://statenews.com/article/2018/03/former-dean-william-strampel-faces-4-charges-4-victims-detail-incidents

An excerpt from "Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists," Edited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett

Lars Peter Hansen: How were these papers originally received? They must have looked technically intimidating to many economists at the time.

Christopher A. Sims: Well I think at the time a lot of people didn’t read them. So they didn’t get intimidated. The paper [Sims (1971c)] on continuous and discrete approximation was submitted to Econometica for consideration. The less sympathetic referee report claimed that everything done in the paper had already been done before. While Dale Jorgenson had previously discussed the rational approximation of lag distributions, the implied sense of approximation was too weak for statistical approximation. This issue had nothing to do with continuous- and discrete-time approximation, however. So, the referee hadn’t even realized that there was a difference between approximation of a lag distribution and approximation of a continuous-time model by the estimated discrete- time model.

Since the work on infinite-dimensional spaces was technically beyond what was appearing in economics journals, I sent Sims (1971d) to the Annals of Mathematical Statistics. After what, for an economics journal, was a relatively short time, the editor wrote: “Sorry it’s taken so long. I had a hard time finding any referees. Here’s a referee report.” The referee report said, “I really don’t understand what this paper is about, but I’ve checked some of the theorems and they seem to be correct, so I guess we should publish it.”

At the time I don’t think that many econometricans [sic] or economists read it. Tom Sargent was an exception. He read my papers on approximating continuous-time models and my Journal of the American Statistical Association paper [Sims (1974e)] on approximation of discrete-time distributed-lag models that use frequency-domain methods, and he became a promoter of them. Tom was, of course, an important reader, and his influence got the work some attention, but it’s true that most economists found these methods hard to follow.

Hansen: Your first job was as an assistant professor at Harvard. What was it like being a junior faculty member there?

Sims: It was probably not that much different from being a junior faculty member almost anywhere. Harvard was certainly different from Minnesota where I moved to later, though. I actually contemplated leaving Harvard immediately for Minnesota, when I finished my Ph.D. The reason I didn’t was that they announced, during the time when I was finishing my degree, that they were hiring Griliches and Jorgenson. I thought it would be interesting to overlap with them for a little while, and it was. But after two years there, I decided to move to Minnesota, which was a much livelier place. There was a sense of intellectual excitement at Minnesota that I didn’t have at Harvard at that time.

big thirsty

What were you doing when you were 17 years old and about to start college?

Photo courtesy of East Austin College Prep

"GOOD NEWS: Sul Ross professor of communication to retire" [oaoa.com]

It's about time!

;-)

#DeleteFacebook ?

WhatsApp co-founder, who sold to Facebook, says #DeleteFacebook
Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp and sold it to Facebook for $19 billion, sent out a short tweet in which he said, "It is time."

IN 2017, KEY FACEBOOK BUILDERS DISOWNED THEIR CREATION
"We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works."

Monday Magic in March

Who would be your ideal mentor?

failure and sadness

Bridge Collapse Saps Spirits and Research Efforts at Florida International University [nytimes]


"I teach physics for engineers so bridges don't fall down. . . ."
     --an old quote from Frod

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos [60 Minutes]

Full broadcast interview:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secretary-of-education-betsy-devos-on-guns-school-choice-and-why-people-dont-like-her/

big hungry

For whom was "Spring Break" created? 

Why do we have it?

What is its purpose?

The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind [erinbartram.com]

• No, I don’t want to teach high school, either private or public.
• No, I don’t want to adjunct or VAP anymore.
• Yeah, this is a highly emotional piece of writing and paints with a broad brush and you might disagree with a lot of the ways I’ve characterized academia.
• No, I don’t care that you disagree. My feelings, thank heavens, are not subject to peer-review.

Source:
http://erinbartram.com/uncategorized/the-sublimated-grief-of-the-left-behind/

Why an Honors Student Wants to Skip College and Go to Trade School [wsj.com]

Behind a paywall at this link:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-or-trade-school-its-a-tough-call-for-many-teens-1520245800

FSW professor granted temporary restraining order against student [news-press.com]

The flava:
A judge has issued a temporary restraining order against a Florida SouthWestern State College student who is suspected of harassing and stalking her former professor. . . .

The article:
https://www.news-press.com/story/news/education/2018/03/02/fsw-professor-granted-temporary-restraining-order-against-student/389244002/

RYAN COOGLER: FROM HOMELESS COLLEGE STUDENT TO MARVEL STUDIOS’ YOUNGEST FILMMAKER [eurweb.com]

"As a student-athlete at Saint Mary’s College, Coogler took a creative writing class during which he wrote about a time his father almost bled to death in his arms. Afterward, his professor asked what he wanted to do with his life and Ryan explained that he wanted to be a doctor, but his professor convinced him to consider screenwriting instead. . . ."

The article:
https://www.eurweb.com/2018/03/ryan-coogler-from-homeless-college-student-to-marvels-youngest-filmmaker/