The special joys of academia

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Tara Smith, newly-minted Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa, celebrates her tenure promotion:

Received the official letter from the Provost–the Board of Regents approved my application for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

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To celebrate, I’ve been spending the last few days in the lab with a student, working on a project involving banked diarrheal samples that is every bit as gross as it sounds. Who knew feces could be such a fluorescent orange…

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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2 Responses to The special joys of academia

  1. Tara C. Smith says:
    May 17, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    Well, still have to keep working and all that…I did go out to dinner with my partner and kids last night so I guess that counts for something.

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