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The End of My Displacement

May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am in Baltimore, essentially, because of Hurricane Katrina. Without that catastrophic event and the reactions that followed within the Tulane University administration, I would in all likelihood still be a student at Tulane. Or I may have graduated.
When people find out that my wife Amanda lives in New Orleans, while I live here, a […]

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House Hunt Successful

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

We have found a house, and will be moving to Saint Paul, MN in about a month.
I’m hovering between excitement and panic.

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Tags: Katrina · Travel

To Miss New Orleans

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I have just returned from my second-to-last visit to New Orleans to see Amanda. Soon, we’ll be living in the same place and those trips will no longer be necessary. Despite all of the hassles of flying, despite missing Amanda, the one benefit of living apart has been an excuse to go see New […]

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PhD Comics Covers Tulane

January 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Good to see that he tells it like it is — you won’t hear any mention of this stuff from the administration at Tulane, you’ll just hear a pile of euphemisms, but we (who were or are there) know it to be true:

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Tags: New Orleans · Katrina · Biomedical Engineering · Science

Five years in the lab: looking back, then forward

November 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

About this time five years ago, I was a nervous junior undergraduate studying Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. I had just been accepted as an undergraduate member of Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s computational cardiac electrophysiology lab. The goal at that time was to complete a research project for my undergraduate thesis.

So very many things have […]

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