Invent the future? What does that mean to you? To me, it means real investment, not just money, but time, energy, personnel, and infrastructure as well The Virginia Tech of the future is an interdisciplinary university with a set of departments and colleges dedicated to people who are in the classical silos and an equal […]
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Give me some space man
As I sit here writing this on the 2nd day of ‘Thanksgiving Break’ doing work at my favorite table at Mill Mountain Coffee and Tea I am pondering why I am not in my prison cell office. Welcome to my office away from office I often times find myself asking this question. Before discovering this oasis, […]
FUN-dergrad research
Last weekend at a conference, the 2nd talk of the day was presented by an undergraduate researcher. The conference chair introduced her personally and was so proud of the fact that she had won a research fellowship and in one year, had conducted a full project and gotten results. I on the other hand, was not […]
I confer onto you some knowledge!
Last month begins what I like to call ‘conference season’. Its a time of year where I make my rounds on the conference circuit presenting my work, getting some knowledge conferred onto me, and discussing ideas with others. All in all it’s an exhausting great time of the year! I’m so happy to be here […]
That’s a bunch of Bologna
In undergrad I had a friend who came from TU Darmstadt for his senior year in order to get his dual-degree between TUD. He was kind and smart, but when he got here, he was flabbergasted by the amount of homework we had to do. his to-do list from back home He was from a different […]
School Where I’m From
This week in Khaled’s blog, I will discuss the school system where I am from: Before I got there: After I got there: Ok, I’m not going to speak about going to school in Blacksburg, rather I’ll speak about school in Algeria where my parents, cousins, and wife went to school. Primary education is 1-12 […]
VIRGINIA TECH: the TECH is for TECHNOLOGY
This blog post will begin with 2 stories, but they are pretty much the same story. When I was applying to colleges in 2005 I knew that I wanted to study Engineering, but I saw that Virginia Tech had a laptop requirement. You see, growing up, our house hold was, you could say, Austere, amenities-wise. […]
Eat this open access, its good for you, I promise
So I got this email to write a chapter of an open access book. Excuse me, I was invited to write a chapter of a book. Except it was on something I know nothing about: Entomphagy. Ok, welcome back from googling it. It’s the science of eating bugs. Yes, my research is on insects but […]
Let’s get ETHICAL, ETHICAL!!!
Flash back to freshman year in college, I was doing a take home online quiz on my laptop 10 minutes before a class…with 3 of my friends. We were cheating. “what did you get for number 3? I got C for number 5, is that what you got? ok hurry up and submit, we gotta go” […]
You’re a scientist, (dont) ACT LIKE IT!
I was at a small Physical Biology of Organisms retreat at a camp in the North Carolina mountains at the beginning of the summer having a group discussion when, apparently, I had some of the organizers worried. Not a bad place to have a meltdown I had expressed some extreme frustration at how scientists were being derided […]