I was just thinking of a conversation that I had with my sister recently. I had asked her what the weather forecast was for the week (it’s good to at least try to prepare and plan ahead!) and she said she would “google it.” To me, her choice of wording was interesting. About a decade ago, people only used the internet search engine “Google” as a noun (as in, “I will look it up on Google”). Nowadays, it is accepted to say “I’ll google it” using the word ‘google’ as a verb, not only as a noun. I wanted to find out more about this phenomenon, so I “googled” it. 🙂 Continue reading →

Hi everyone!

It was nice to see those who participated in the poster day presentations held at the Graduate Center this past Friday, March 16th. For those who were not there, in addition to Sarah’s post and Yasmine’s post (and anyone else who posted before me) on their research update and experiences of Poster Day, here is my brief synopsis of the event. Continue reading →