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Research Leave<\/em>: a semester pre-tenure where you have no teaching responsibilities, limited service commitments, and can focus on research productivity.<\/p>\n I am officially one week into this “research leave”! After some re-configuring of the air handling in my hoods over the break, the lab was ready for me to get back at it. I have goals for the semester (really, you should see my white board in my office with all of the projects and to-dos). This week I was getting back into my groove of organic synthesis — set up three reactions (first one failed but the second two seem promising), ran a flash column, performed some NMRs, did a lot of TLCs, and removed solvent in the rotovap. I also walked back and forth around the lab a million times trying to figure out where everything is located. I broke a piece of glassware. I had to do an emergency order of a reagent that I thought I had. It hasn’t been quiet or easy but it has been enjoyable. Let’s hope it continues and that the semester moves slowly so that it is productive.<\/p>\n Wish me luck! I’ll check back in \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ~jap<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"