SacramentoGrilo rated fourth most "hot" professors by RateMyProfessors.com.

'Hot' Professors
RateMyProfessors.com ranks two SDSU professors as most attractive.

SDSU'S Corey Manchester, lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Isabelle SacramentoGrilo, lecturer for the Department of Geological Sciences, were ranked third and fourth respectively for hottest professors by RateMyProfessors.com, an online rating site for college, university and junior college professors.

The website recently ranked the top 10 rated universities, professors at universities, professors at junior colleges and hottest professors, using information gathered over the past two and a half years, with an emphasis on most recent ratings.

Each year RateMyProfessors.com's annual rankings capture the highest rated college professors and faculties on the site.

About the rankings

RateMyProfessors.com uses a five-point Likert scale, as well as a binary scoring system, for student-generated professor ratings.

For each of the professor lists, each individual rating value was first standardized around its mean and a weighted score was created using standardized scores from the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 to date.

Using the weighted score, professors were ranked from high to low. Only professors with 10 ratings or more were included to provide statistical significance. All professors were verified as actively teaching in the current semester by each school at the time the lists were compiled.

About the website

RateMyProfessor.com is a website where students can rank their professors on easiness, helpfulness, clarity, rater interest and "hotness."

In the past year, monthly traffic to the site has increased approximately 18 percent in page views, and about 20 percent in visits on average, according to Omniture. The lists were culled from RateMyProfessors.com's extensive database of more than 7.5 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors.

The Independent Planetologist / Favored Lecture Topics

Looking for a Science Lecture for your local group....
ask the Independent Planetologist - Dr. Gary Peterson

The Independent Planetologist / Favored Lecture Topics:

"FAVORED TOPICS

Some lectures are one of a kind. Others are given over and over again, sometimes under different titles (in this list, only the latest title is indicated). The content of a talk can vary quite considerably, depending on the audience. Some talks tend to 'evolve' as they are repeatedly given. Listed below are some favored topics. The 'Planet Earth Series' of talks deal with earthly topics only. Click on the title and a list of venues will appear. (* indicates that the talk has been given 5 or more times, ** 10 or more times and *** 20 or more times.)

'PLANET EARTH SERIES'
'DOOMSDAY ASTEROIDS AND COMETS' **
'GEOLOGY: THE EARTH AS A PLANET'
'COLLISIONS OF COMETS AND PLANETS' **
'A FIELD TRIP THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM'
'METEORITES AND OTHER SPACE DEBRIS'**
'SALT WEATHERING ON EARTH AND MARS'
'IMPACT STRUCTURES ON THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS'
'BASALTIC FLOODING OF PLANETARY LANDSCAPES' **
'EVOLUTION OF THE GALILEAN SATELLITES OF JUPITER'
'THE SULFUR VOLCANISM OF IO'*
'EXPLORING THE MARTIAN DESERT' **
'THE GEOLOGICAL CASE FOR LIFE ON MARS' ***
'LOSS OF VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS FROM THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS' **
'MARS: WHERE DID ALL THE WATER GO?' **
'EXPLORING THE LUNAR LANDSCAPE'*
'WHY IS MARS RED?' ***
'EUROPA: THE OTHER OCEAN'*
'IS THERE LIFE ELSEWHERE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM?'*
'VENUS: EXPLORING THE INFERNO' **
'ATMOSPHERES AND OCEANS OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS' **
'MERCURY: THE FORGOTTEN PLANET'**
'THE GREAT MARTIAN CLIMATE CHANGE'*
'THE PROBLEM WITH PLUTO'*
'THE CAPTURE OF THE MOON'*
'THE CRYOGEN"

The Great Southern California ShakeOut

At 10 a.m. on November 13, join millions of people throughout Southern California in the ShakeOut Drill, the largest earthquake preparedness activity in U.S. history!

Individuals, businesses, schools, colleges and universities will be spreading the word about earthquake preparedness throughout Southern California.

A week of special events featuring the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history, "The Great Southern California ShakeOut," has been organized to inspire Southern Californians to get prepared.

On Nov. 13, SDSU will activate its Campus Emergency Operations Center to participate in an exercise that will simulate the steps necessary to manage an incident such as an earthquake.

All members of the SDSU campus community are encouraged to periodically review earthquake preparedness information, including "Drop, Cover and Hold On" protocol, and help spread the word. Being prepared may prevent a disaster from becoming a catastrophe. Additional SDSU emergency preparedness information for students, faculty and staff may be found online.

Earthquake Simulations at SDSU
Kim Bak Olsen, Professor Department of Geological Sciences at San Diego State University, California discusses earthquake simulations.
Originally posted by SDSC on SDSC's CI Channel at: www.cichannel.org