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I am not a business expert. That’s certainly one reason I’m in academia.

Recently, Rich Apodaca questioned the business case for open source and the small company (i.e., in science).

To me, this question comes around every year or so. There are an increasing number of open source scientific programs, so it’s only natural to question how [...]

For university faculty to gain tenure, we’re evaluated on three components: scholarly research, teaching, and service. The weighting given to each component obviously varies based on the university and the topic.

My recent post on open chemistry software stressed the research aspect, in part because chemistry leans heavily on the research component when evaluating faculty at [...]

I was recently asked online why I bother at all with writing open source chemistry software. It’s a good, important question for myself and my career.

I believe in working smarter and harder. One of my Ph.D. advisors said “a day in the library saves a month in lab.”

I believe a day (or a week) designing [...]

I have periodically posted images of molecules. This particular entry is the structure of Lipitor, aka Atorvastatin, one of the highest selling drugs in the world. Among the classes of statin drugs, this molecule is used to lower blood cholesterol.

Another reason I’m posting this molecular image is that it was generated by a new feature [...]

One of the challenges as a new professor is that you’re starting everything from scratch. Right now, I have no graduate students at all. (In this department, graduate students do not typically join a group until January.)

So I’m recruiting.