Sunday, August 8, 2021
Zeynep Tuna
This week, I spent my time finalizing my work at APS and getting the products of my work published on the APS website. Throughout my internship, I made a lot of tough decisions, experienced the implications and consequences of those decision, and learned a lot.
Sunday, August 8, 2021
Kirk Kleinsasser
It’s really hard to believe my time as a SPS intern is over. This past week was jammed packed with final preparations, practice, last minute documentation, and final meetings. I’m truly sad to see my internship come to a close, but all good things must end.
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Kirk Kleinsasser
It’s hard to believe how fast time has flown—I will be presenting my results next week! I spent this week working on my presentation and analyzing my data. I still need to add one more visualization of my results, but otherwise the slides are all done!
Friday, July 30, 2021
Zeynep Tuna
This week, I spent all my time on revising the work I have been doing throughout this internship so that the data that gets published on the APS website is accurate.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Hannah Wistrand
This was it! This was the week! We had our two training sessions for members about combating the spread of scientific misinformation, and especially misinformation about vaccine hesitancy. There were two sessions, held Monday and Thursday evening.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Kirk Kleinsasser
Since I finished my program according to our original goals last week, I started work on my analysis this week. My advisor and I are considering the best way to present our findings visually.
Friday, July 23, 2021
Zeynep Tuna
This week, I finalized the Top Educators Lists and the documentation for the process. As I was starting to work on graphs, something was brought to my attention. Our How Does Your Institution Compare data for 2018 did not include second degrees in physics although the Uberspreadsheet did.
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Hannah Wistrand
This week was a lot of figuring things out. I know, 7 weeks in, I should have it figured out by now, right?
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Kirk Kleinsasser
This week, I finished my data processing application. I’m very excited, as I found an alternative database system that greatly speeds up queries and is much easier to package into a portable application!
Friday, July 16, 2021
Zeynep Tuna
This week, I continued working on the Top Educators Lists. I completed writing the program that generates the spreadsheet with each institution’s 3-year averages based on the demographic/degree categories decided (yay!).
