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This podcast is aimed at providing honest experiences about challenges, failures, and possibly a few success stories related to life in academia.
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Advisors and Advisees: Setting Expectations
Bryan and Steve discuss challenges and ramifications of instances of poorly set expectations between graduate students (i.e., advisees) and faculty (i...
What if federally-funded research ended?
Bryan and Steve discuss the hypothetical scenario of federal funding for research suddenly drying up. What might happen at universities? How would fac...
Decoding Faculty Excuses
Bryan and Steve discuss their experiences in receiving (and sometimes making) excuses related to working with others. When is a "yes" a "yes"? When is...
Peer Review Problems
Bryan and Steve discuss their concerns with the peer review process that research papers currently follow and offer some food-for-thought suggestions...
Sharing Ideas: ♫You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em; know when to disclose ‘em♫
Bryan and Steve discuss their thoughts on sharing research ideas or not. They talk about risks associated with both sharing and withholding ideas. Enj...
"FOIA'd" with Denise Simmons
Professor and Associate Dean Denise Simmons of the University of Florida joins us to discuss her experiences with being “FOIA’d” (Freedom of Informati...
Rebuilding new careers (and more) with Matt Morris
Professor Matt Morris (University of Colorado Boulder) joins us to discuss his journey to academia via a first career in the military and second caree...
Can the professor come out and play???
Bryan and Steve discuss the value of playfulness in academic discussions. They talk about the benefits they’ve observed in having playful conversation...
Moving from a teaching-focused to research-focused institution
Professor Vineeth Dharmapalan (Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa) talks about his recent move from a mostly teaching-focused institut...
Cold Emails
Bryan and Steve discuss their experiences in receiving and sending cold emails (emails to people you do not yet know). They discuss what works well an...
Kristen Parrish discusses writing P&T letters
Professor Kristen Parrish (Arizona State University) joins us to talk about challenges with writing letters for other individuals' promotion and tenur...
Research Projects: Finishing Strong
Bryan and Steve discuss challenges and lessons learned when wrapping up research projects. They discuss what is often involved at the end of projects,...
Summer Summer Summertime
Bryan and Steve discuss their plans for the upcoming summer and how their summer work experience differs from the rest of the academic year.
Administration... Bryan goes to the Dark Side!
Bryan discusses his new position as a PhD Program Director and challenges and lessons learned in this administration role. Enjoy!
Publishing with AI and the future of research output
Bryan and Steve discuss how generative AI is impacting processes for generating and reviewing research manuscripts. They also offer some food for thou...
Bryan and Steve struggle to teach new courses
In this episode, Bryan and Steve discuss their experiences in teaching courses that are new to them. They talk about the moments that were especially...
'Unfundable' with Fred Sherratt
Fred Sherratt joins us to discuss her experiences in struggling to get academic funding and surviving as a qualitative researchers in a quantitative w...
Risky Business with John Gambatese
Professor John Gambatese (Oregon State University) joins us to discuss taking risks in academia and some that he took that worked out, and some that d...
Bryan's Sabbatical Reflection
Bryan discusses his sabbatical and shares what went well and what could have been better. Enjoy!
Working Abroad with guest Daniel Hall
Professor Daniel Hall (TU Delft) joins Bryan and Steve to discuss his experience of growing up and studying in the US, but deciding to launch his acad...
Bryan cancels the pie chart
Bryan and Steve discuss successes and failures in developing graphics in academia. An audio discussion about visual communication - maybe this wasn't...
Burcu Akinci - Imposter Sydrome
Dr. Burcu Akinci, a full Professor and Department Head at Carnegie Mellon University, a National Academy of Construction member, and most recently a P...
Moving Institutions
Steve's moving - and we're talking about it. We discuss what went well in the job application, interview, and moving processes and what didn't. Enjoy!
The Daily Routine of an Academic
Bryan and Steve discuss their typical days as academics. They talk about the fun and not-so-fun parts of their professional lives. Enjoy!
Failure in leading
Bryan and Steve discuss their struggles with serving in leadership positions - especially when leading individuals who do not directly report to them....
Working in a National Lab with Dr. Kieren McCord
Kieren McCord joins us to discuss her experience in transitioning from a PhD student to a full time researcher in a national lab. Enjoy!
Shedding 'Leicht' on Sabbaticals with Rob Leicht
Bryan, Steve, and guest Professor Rob Leicht (Penn State) discuss sabbatical do's and don't's. Hopefully you enjoy learning from Rob's experience as m...
Faculty "Tropes" in Academia
Bryan and Steve discuss "tropes", or common patterns of behavior in pop culture storytelling, within academic settings. We talk about these patterns...
Surviving the first year of teaching with Prof. Jennifer Lather
Professor Jennifer Lather (University of Nebraska) stops by to discuss her experience in creating, delivering, and learning from a new course that she...
Attracting Top PhD Students
Bryan and Steve discuss their experiences and lessons learned in trying to attract top PhD students for their respective research groups.
Academic Freedom
Bryan and Steve discuss academic freedom and how various social and political shifts to impact this freedom can potentially impact students' education...
Teaching - Back to normal??
Bryan and Steve discuss their experiences and struggles with helping students succeed in their courses now that most have returned to post-COVID modes...
Kasey Faust
Prof. Kasey Faust (University of Texas, Austin) stops by to talk about finding balance between home life and work life. She offers several practical s...
Social Look-At-Media in Academia
Bryan and Steve discuss their positive and negative experiences with social media in academia. Enjoy!
Using your startup funding wisely
Bryan and Steve discuss their experiences (and their hesitancy) with spending their startup funding when they began their faculty careers.
Serving on a Faculty Search Committee
Steve and Bryan discuss their experiences serving on faculty search committees. They share the types of concerns, debates, and challenges that may eme...
Tenured? How does it feel?
Dr. Masoud Gheisari and our own Dr. Bryan Franz discuss their experiences (and challenges) with pursuing and successfully achieving tenure.
Robert LiKamWa
Professor Robert LiKamWa (Arizona State University) discusses struggles related to mentoring students and facing rejections on the way to ultimately s...
Transitioning from Engineering to Engineering Education with Professor Logan Perry
Logan Perry (University of Nebraska) joins us to discuss his experience in shifting from a traditional Civil Engineering domain to Engineering Educati...
Poor solutions to poorly structured problems
Bryan and Steve discuss their failures, and occasional successes, with challenging their undergraduate students to address poorly structured problems....