Glencora Borradaile

As seen at the Women’s Center on campus at Oregon State University (in the spirit of … is powered by Orange).

I recently went to a Christmas party where, instead of a gift exchange, there was a donation exchange.  Essentially, we each placed a cause’s name into a hat, people draw the names and are asked to donate to the cause.  You may donate any amount you wish (including nothing if you are particularly opposed to [...]

The Combinatorial Potlatch is a semi-regular (which for last 7 years has been yearly!) one-day workshop in combinatorics held in Cascadia.  It is very informal (no name tags!), very relaxed (only three talks!) and runs on next to no funding*.  The latest installment was this past weekend in Vancouver, BC, held at Simon Fraser University’s [...]

There’s talk of postdocking* in the air – for one, Jonathan Katz posted about how to better match recent grads to postdoc positions. It looks like this year’s academic-job market is even worse than last and that postdocs might just fill in the gap for a year or two for some people – including those that are [...]

I was a mathematics undergraduate in the MathWorld generation.  It spread like wildfire in our department.  I stopped carrying textbooks around with me – instead I could just walk into our undergraduate lab and look something up.  MathWorld was every math textbook I needed.  (A friend of mine was blocked from MathWorld after trying to [...]

[greets three tiny trick-or-treaters] Them: Trick or treat! Me: I see we have a puppy, Mickey Mouse and, well, you must be a mathematician! Little girl [defiantly stomping foot]: I’m a princess! Me: Princesses can be mathematicians too.