I picked up my iPhone to see 39 WhatsApp messages, 3 missed calls, and a voicemail. In this moment, I had an epiphany: in the previous 2 hours, I got to experience being a real person. In our busy, “connected” lives, we often forget the pre-smartphone times when simpler was better. We become slaves to […]
Anyone who knows me, knows how strongly I feel about the value of the PhD. You’ve heard the statistics that there aren’t enough academic jobs to accommodate all the PhD graduates. A simple-minded solution is to admit and train fewer PhDs. I could not disagree more! On the contrary the world needs armies of people […]
Norbert Riedel visited the Law School as part of the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series. Below are some of the questions that were asked by students following the talk. If you haven’t read the post on the content of his talk, you may want to start here! What kinds of patents does Naurex/Aptinyx get? Mainly, composition of matter […]
Hello, blog readers! I am Valerie Smith, the MSL Program Intern, and I am here to introduce myself and share a little bit about the work that I do with the MSL Program. I spend the majority of my time in the Law School chatting with our talented and engaging students, hanging out with the […]
OK, I am for sure going to get some of the science and terminology wrong here, but what can say? I am just a caveman lawyer without a STEM background, and, unfortunately, hanging around all our lovely STEM-trained MSL students has not magically turned me into a scientist. So I apologize in advance for the […]
This blog post is an introduction to the MSL program’s new Director of Law-STEM Initiatives, Zoe Hoeppner, who joined the program at the end of January. Zoe Hoeppner joins the MSL as the Interim Director of Law-STEM initiatives. Zoe hopes to serve the MSL (and the broader Law School community) by engaging corporate and industry […]