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Donna Strickland won the Physics prize for the first paper she published as a grad student. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0030401885901518?
by astrange 3y ago
Donna Strickland won the Physics prize for the first paper she published as a grad student. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0030401885901518?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0030401885...)
She was an associate professor when she got it, because she'd never bothered to apply for full professor.
(I remember one of my CS professors proudly declaring he'd become a full professor in class once; I looked him up recently and he'd moved to be a director at Google Cloud, so I guess it's not that great in the end.)
- gnicholas 3y agoMy understanding is that the pay bump from associate to full is quite modest at many institutions. And since tenure is typically granted with the promotion to associate, people care comparatively much less about promotion to full.
- notacoward 3y agoThey might even care negatively, since AIUI being a full professor opens up new "opportunities" to get stuck doing administrative work.
- evanb 3y agoAssociate ≠ adjunct. Associate means that the person is one of the junior faculty, adjunct (typically) means the person is someone who might teach a class or supervise graduate students. But an adjunct doesn't have a vote in faculty meetings.