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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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 […]
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 […]
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” […]