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Chemistry Prof | Assessment Nerd | AVP | Pedagogy, ungrading, skill development, teacher prep

Book on display: The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
A parking lot where shade is provided by very large tree-like structures. The giant leaves of the trees are shaped like leaves.
In an alleyway, right of center is a shop window. In the bottom half of the photo there are two broken bikes leaning against the wall- on painted all pink and the other painted all teal.
In a small piazza in front of Hotel Accademia. The building has red uplights between the windows on the second and third floors. In the piazza there is restaurant seatjng with some red lights on the guests. A restaurant host, all in black in the open space of the piazza, invites passersby to dine.
In the ruins of Pompeii: a wall on the left, scrubby grass where the floor would be, the sky on the distance (upper right) with cumulonimbus clouds, and red poppies in the foreground.
A brown and white Boston terrier lying in the grass, my partner’s hand holding a tiny baby bunny.
A photo of Chicago at night. Tall buildings lit up reflected in the river. A bridge is in the middle.
View of the stage from the lower balcony at Chicago Symphony Center.
A deciduous forest in the fall. Sun filters through yellow and orange leaves.
The cover of Broken Stars.
In exercising the authority and discharging the functions referred to in the foregoing subsections, it shall be an objective of the Foundation to strengthen research and education in the sciences and engineering, including independent research by individuals, throughout the United States, and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education.
The cover of ‘Before We Forget Kindness’ has an illustration of a cafe table with three chairs, three cups of coffee, and a cat stretched out nearby.
37 book covers to summarize my reading for the year.
The cover of the book “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles”.