Questions & Answers with Roy Plotnic
1) Q: Where do you work?
A: I am professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
2) Q: When did you decide to teach paleontology?
A: I first became interested in paleontology when I was a freshman in college.
3) Q: What are you teaching right now?
A: I am teaching an introductory course, called Global Environment Change.
4) Q: What college did you attend?
A: I went to Columbia University for my bachelor's degree, University of Rochester for my masters, and received my PhD from the University of Chicago.
5) Q: Would you reccomend the profession of paleontologist to just anyone?
A: No, I would not. There is a long training process and not that many jobs.
6) Q: How many classes do you teach?
A: I teach one formal course per semester, plus a lot of time advising and working with students.
7) Q: Why would someone want to be a paleontologist?
A: Paleontology is a science that combines laboratory work with great research in the outdoors.
8) Q: Do you get to work with fossils?
A: Of coarse, that is what we do! But I don't work with dinosaur fossils.
9) Q: Have you ever got to go on a dig?
A: I don't conduct "digs". Instead I do "field work".
10) Q: How big is your biggest class?
A: I have about 175 students right now.
A: I am professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
2) Q: When did you decide to teach paleontology?
A: I first became interested in paleontology when I was a freshman in college.
3) Q: What are you teaching right now?
A: I am teaching an introductory course, called Global Environment Change.
4) Q: What college did you attend?
A: I went to Columbia University for my bachelor's degree, University of Rochester for my masters, and received my PhD from the University of Chicago.
5) Q: Would you reccomend the profession of paleontologist to just anyone?
A: No, I would not. There is a long training process and not that many jobs.
6) Q: How many classes do you teach?
A: I teach one formal course per semester, plus a lot of time advising and working with students.
7) Q: Why would someone want to be a paleontologist?
A: Paleontology is a science that combines laboratory work with great research in the outdoors.
8) Q: Do you get to work with fossils?
A: Of coarse, that is what we do! But I don't work with dinosaur fossils.
9) Q: Have you ever got to go on a dig?
A: I don't conduct "digs". Instead I do "field work".
10) Q: How big is your biggest class?
A: I have about 175 students right now.