Author Archives: Jonathan Nyquist

In some ways, the virtual conferences that arose from necessity out of the pandemic are a boon for science.  No travel increases foreign participation and, arguably, student participation as well. A case in point is the upcoming symposium Application of … Continue reading →

It’s 2021; the weather is warming; people are getting vaccinated — time to start fieldwork again! This past week I went into the field with my graduate students Bojan Milinic and Gina Pope to install Terros-12 soil sensors at a … Continue reading →

  Using the cute little graphic above, Amazon web services define a data lake as: “… a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without … Continue reading →

The debate has raged for decades over the best use of student course feedback, or indeed, whether it should be used at all. Detractors cite studies that show racial and gender bias. Proponents argue that the student voice should be … Continue reading →

GenEd courses come up for recertification every five years. Faculty reviewers read the instructor’s narrative, examine syllabi of all the course sections, look at assignment prompts, review samples of student work, check on section sizes and instructor support — a … Continue reading →

(image: https://onestop.utsa.edu/registration/class-schedule/modality/) Remember when there were two types of classes, online and in-person? Online and in-person gave birth to three children: hybrid, asynchronous, and virtual.  In Temple parlance, a hybrid class has an online component and an in-person component. An … Continue reading →

On August 17th, GenEd held its annual faculty assembly. The theme was “Teaching Writing Across the GenEd Curriculum.” Improving student’s oral and written communication is one of GenEd’s program-wide goals [link].  Vigilance is required because I fear that the pandemic-driven … Continue reading →

Monitoring Infiltration in a Stormwater Basin Covid 19 dominates all aspects of our lives right now, but field work must go on!  Recently Dr. Laura Toran,  PhD candidate Gina Pope, and I helped masters student Kyle Collins (above) install a … Continue reading →

In my November 2019 blog post, I like to use Tableau to develop data dashboards GenEd. There is a rapidly growing Tableau community in Temple, which now has its own user group. To learn more, visit the Temple Tableau getting … Continue reading →

There is no question that a whole generation of sociology and education students will write theses on higher education during of the Covid 19 Pandemic. I believe studies will show that although the forced transition from classroom to online instruction … Continue reading →