Education Counting Corrections 7 Apr 2022 The problem Over the last few years I have reviewed many student assignments, both at undergrad and PhD level, and as a favour for friends (or friends of friends), as…
Design… Presentation Timings 17 Mar 202217 Mar 2022 The challenge One of the assignments I set each year is for a group of students to prepare a narrated powerpoint presentation. It's a useful exercise (I think), the students…
Cancer Research… Light Scatter 1 Nov 20211 Nov 2021 Some time ago I was asked to compensate for light scatter when measuring the UV absorbance of protein solutions. I was intrigued because I'd never seen it applied to an…
Experience… Excel numbers from Word tables 1 Nov 202112 Mar 2022 Compared to the last academic year, we can do more face to face teaching. We just need to be savvy about how it's done! Social distancing is still in place…
Experience… JSmol in Moodle 9 Jul 202110 Jul 2021 Feel free to skip the blurb and get to the instructions section below. The blurb When I studied undergrad chemistry at Glasgow we needed to buy textbooks and a simple…
Uncategorized pdf to data conversion 14 Jun 202115 Jun 2021 Intro So....you have lots of pdfs that you want to extract some data from? I'll tell you my story first, then give you the files and finally some hints on…
Design… HPLC analysis on a spreadsheet 11 Jun 202111 Jun 2021 Help! Covid means we can't huddle four or five students round an HPLC system. Any lab-based HPLC experiments we do will take ages! And that's before we decontaminate each HPLC…
Experience The Road Goes – Part 2 7 Apr 2021 In my last blog post I wrote about the metaphorical musings inspired by watching (or reading) Lord of the Rings. It was while I was writing that piece that I…
Experience The Road Goes – Part 1 7 Apr 20218 Apr 2021 There's something about Tolkien's Middle-earth that stokes my imagination! It's so easy to step into the Third Age where the hassles and aggravations of the real world just slip away.…
Experience Cerin Armoth 7 Apr 20218 Apr 2021 I'm starting to feel that lockdown has hollowed me out: I can't travel, I can't see friends, I can't go to church. All I can do (or am supposed to…
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