Where (location, organization, university, etc.) is the journal from? This journal originates from OMICS International, which is an organization established in 2007 to provide open access to research. OMICS has over 700 peer-reviewed, open access journals in the “clinical, medical, pharmaceutical, life sciences, business, engineering, and techology” fields [1]. What are the purpose, goals, scope, […]
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The Carolina Way: To Seem Rather Than To Be
Last week when we blogged about ethics, I’ll admit that I was looking forward to it because of the links on Canvas. As an NC State alum and lifelong Wolfpack fan, I have very strong, totally unbiased feelings about UNC’s academic integrity issues over the past few decades. For those unfamiliar with the story, multiple […]
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You Can’t Always “Marie Kondo” Your Education
When I was a junior in civil engineering, I decided to take Reinforced Concrete Design. When we got to class the first day, I checked the part of the syllabus that tells you how your final grade will be calculated and saw: Midterm: 45% Final Exam: 55% At this point in my college career, it […]
Continue ReadingPost 2: Publish or Perish? Is It Worth It?
Last semester, I took Engineering Ethics and the Public with Dr. Marc Edwards. As part of that class, we had to read and write a book report about an ethical violation. The book I read, Plastic Fantastic, detailed the scientific misconduct of physicist Jan Hendrik Schon, who worked at Bell Labs. Schon committed major scientific fraud […]
Continue ReadingRacism, Yearbooks, and the Modern University
This week has been a total mess for Virginia politics. All three members of the executive branch and other prominent political figures are embroiled in scandals, most of which involve photos from their university days of them dressed in blackface. While these images are offensive, their existence shouldn’t be surprising, according to some scholars. As […]
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How do you anti-teach anti-learners?
This week, our reading discussed embracing change and allowing students to learn through play and imagination. The whole theory of anti-teaching seems to center around inspiring students to ask good questions instead of conveying useful information. It seems, though, that our education system has produced students who ask only the worst question: “do we need […]
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