Global Classrooms NYC trip!!
If it was not easy for me to mentally prepare to be back in the United States after nine months of living in Spain, my ten students must have been going absolutely bonkers with excitement. Many of them would be […]
Fundación Consejo España-EE.UU & Fulbright España Research Seminar
U.S. 2012-2013 Fulbright Research Fellows in the scientific and technical fields convened on Monday, May 20th for a three-day session in Madrid and Barcelona to explore Spain’s premier research facilities. Seven pre-doctoral researchers from Madrid, Barcelona, and Cadiz studying in […]
The Comet PanSTARRS
Last week I had a surprising vision: despite 20 years researching in astronomy, the sky view surprised me. It was the comet PanSTARRS, visible with naked eye in dark places, or even with a little help from a town. Sometimes […]
Confessions from the Mid-Year Conference
Like many of the Fulbrights from Santander, I woke up between 6:30 and 7:00 on Wednesday morning and boarded the bus at 8:00 for Zaragoza. I stayed awake and listened to Bob Dylan. It was placid. The earth was dryer […]
«Don’t Forget to Do Good»
With a hundred eyes on her, my 14-year-old student Claudia stood up and gave a brief but rational appeal for the improvement of transportation infrastructure in mountainous landlocked regions. Only by improving transportation, Claudia said, would Nepal be able to […]
Where Tuvalu Is and Other Lessons from Global Classrooms
I was nervous. I wasn’t nervous, but I couldn’t stop thinking of the word crispación. The way it sounded, crisp, like a layer of ice closing over the room. The room was La Asamblea de Madrid, the parliament for the […]