STM Research and a mother's right to brag!?

Question

My son is a grad student in analytical chemistry at the U of Minn-Twin Cities and he recently published his first article in the "Analytical Chemistry Journal." They accepted the article exactly the way he wrote it! NO revisions, NO editing, NO changes! It's in this month's volume. No one, including myself, has ever heard of that! Have you?

He's been working on tips for STM and came up with something better and cheaper than any one else before.

No correct answers for this. Just bragging about my first born to people who might know something about STM. Sorry if you don't approve the use of this medium to do that. I'm just so proud!

Answer 1

I am afraid I don't know much about STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy?), but I do know that having a research paper in any academic field accepted for publication with no changes is a rare and extraordinary achievement.

Of COURSE you have a right to brag! You have the good fortune of having a son who is obviously making the very best use of his talents, his education and his life lessons. That he does this is a testament to solid, well-grounded and loving parenting.

I have two sons, and I am immensely proud of both of them. My eldest is dissertating for his PhD in Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after earning two Master's degrees, one in Medical Physics, the other in Nuclear Medicine. His younger brother, a musician and writer, is a 4.0 undergrad also at Madison. He will have a BS in Biochemistry in the next year or so.

They are both fine young men: smart, compassionate, caring, liberal (YAY!) and - I just have to say this - damn good looking to boot.

While I certainly claim no credit for their brains or good looks, ask me if I'm proud of them. Go ahead...ask me! Ask me if I love talking...correction, bragging...about them. You'd better believe I do!

Our children are not often given (at least not at this age) to saying "thank you" to their parents explicitly for doing a good job of bringing them up. Instead, the "thanks" comes in witnessing what they make of themselves, not only academically but ethically and morally as well. In this respect, I would say you and I are well thanked.

Revel in the evidence of what you have accomplished and accept my congratulations for a job well done!

Best to you!

Answer 2

Cool!!! n_n