Bowdoin College

Gizem Dogan

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Gizem Dogan

First week in DC as a working physicist! 

Gizem Dogan

Physics Today Science Writing Intern

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.

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.

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.

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!).

Friday, July 9, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I started working on the Top Educators lists. In order to create the Top Educators lists for each demographic, I need to use the Überspreadsheet to create a separate sheet with all the institution’s 3-year averages for degrees awarded in physics.

Friday, July 2, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

At the end of last week, I was quite worried about my process of modifying and debugging the code that adds the new year’s data into the Überspreadsheet.

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I spent most of time on Excel formatting data for the Compare Your Institution webpage on the APS website. In my opinion, this is an important aspect of the Education and Diversity Statistics project as most institutions and most people use this as a resource very often.

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

Switching to the NSF database from the IPEDS database was a difficult decision, and naturally, it gave rise to more decisions. Deciding on how to construct the data tables required lots of experimentation and code review.

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