Complexity introduces readers to the wide-ranging world of complexity science, with an emphasis on the computational side. Plus a robot that cleans up for you.Read more…
Job Announcement: Professor or Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
As a public service, we post job openings that may be of interest to our audience. Read on for more details on a position at Sattler College in Boston. PROFESSOR OR ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Job Description Sattler CollegeRead more…
Science Corner: Portrait of an Emerging Scholar
We wander a bit outside the usual science themes, but we are not lost; we are with Tolkien.Read more…
Free Webinar Saturday: Jesus, Beginnings, and Science with David and Kate Vosburg
We’re delighted to share that friends of ESN David and Kate Vosburg will be offering a free webinar this Saturday through the Society of Christian Scholars. More detail below. Register here Jesus, Beginnings, and Science Webinar Description David and KateRead more…
A Philosophy Professor Prays for Emerging Writers
Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan shared this prayer at a gathering of The Augustine Collective. We liked it so much we asked her if we could share it with Christian academics at the ESN blog. At ESN, we love to shareRead more…
Science Book Review: Underbug – An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Termites feature prominently, but it’s one of those “it was really about us all along” kind of stories.Read more…
Science Corner: The Time Stone Heals All Wounds?
What heals all wounds is healing.Read more…
Science Corner: A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk, and a Unicorn
Unicorn Store, the tale of a frustrated art student offered the opportunity to adopt a unicorn, exists well outside the world of science fiction stories I typically review here. Yet as I watched, it struck me just how much theRead more…
Happy Easter from ESN
He is risen! May you know the joy of Christ’s presence today. We hope the following hymn [Come You Faithful, Raise the Strain] helps you celebrate the risen life of our Savior.Read more…
Science Book Review: How the Body of Christ Talks
How the Body of Christ Talks by C. Christopher Smith is an invitation to deeper conversation for Christian congregations, although organizations of all sorts will likely find value in Smith’s observations and advice.Read more…
Entering One Holy Week
Thank you to Kirsten Wagenius for sharing “ONE HOLY WEEK: an Easter journey from palms to persecution to praise” with the Emerging Scholars Network!Read more…
Science Corner: Adding to the Conversation
Highlights from Francis Su’s webinar “The Integration of Faith and the Academic Calling.”Read more…
Spiritual Life As An Academic: The Perpetual Student
Part of the challenge in academia is that my success seems tied to my ‘expertise.’ Read more…
Science Corner: 2019 BioLogos Conference Recap
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the BioLogos conference in Baltimore, MD. Although there is a healthy dose of science, their conferences have a different feel than American Scientific Affiliation meetings, or at least the one I attended.Read more…
American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting
The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) annual faith/science conference is coming up July 19-22. The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) and ASA have partnered to expand student/early career presence greatly in the last few years, and this time we would love to connect with even more emerging scholars and more experienced mentors.Read more…
Science Corner: The Prizes are in Bloom
[Karen Uhlenbeck’s] work laid the foundation for a whole new branch of mathematics, geometric analysis, and she also provided mathematical physicists critical tools for working with the Yang-Mills equations which are central to the Standard Model of particle physics.Read more…
The One Thing Needful (Lent 2019)
The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. – Eugene H. Peterson, Run with the HorsesRead more…
North Park University Job Opening: Visiting Professor of Human Anatomy and Physiology
One way we support Christian academics at ESN is to share faculty job openings at Christian colleges and other institutions interested in receiving applications from those in the InterVarsity network. Read on for information on a North Park University visitingRead more…
Science Corner: The Luck of the Streptomyces
Having just observed St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it fitting to discuss some science news from Ireland.Read more…
Spiritual Disciplines for Graduate School
In my role as a campus minister over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of helping students embrace the value of simple, flexible, and defined spiritual disciplines.Read more…
Science Corner: Subtraction by Addition
Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park was in the science news last week, which caught my eye because I had recently read Sean B. Carroll’s The Serengeti Rules. (Scientist/authors are rare, and yet biologist Sean B. Carroll must distinguish himself from physicistRead more…
Living Mid-Story (Lent 2019)
If we are going to live appropriately, we must be aware that we are living in the middle of a story that was begun and will be concluded by another. And this other is God. – Eugene H. Peterson, Run with the HorsesRead more…
April 1: Christians in Chemistry Meetup at ACS in Orlando
Christians in Chemistry will gather again informally at the semi-annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Orlando, Florida. Read more…
Science Corner: Lent 2019
Since [Pope Francis] is a scientist and a theologian, I thought he would be a good point of reference [on Lenten practice].Read more…