The British Museum: Mesopotamia
A site mainly geared to upper grades or middle school but very useful for early undergraduate classes, too. Provides excellent overview of Mesopotamian cultures with lots of visuals and interactive lessons.
Fighting for the Future of Medicine
At Notre Dame, one in every ten undergraduates goes on to attend medical school. These pre-med students receive training that prepares them for the challenges of the profession, motivating a commitment to scholarship and love of learning that remains with them throughout their career.
Students like Katie Washington, valedictorian of the class of 2010, obtain valuable skills through undergraduate research activities, learning to use science and medicine as tools to help create a healthier and mo
Building the Brain: Art Installation
Watch as contemporary Spanish artist Daniel Canogar gathers materials that he will use in the creation of an enthralling walk-through installation for the American Museum of Natural History's upcoming exhibition Brain: The Inside Story. Canogar's installation is made up of a canopy of moving lights representing billions of firing neurons inside the human brain.
Brain: The Inside Story is an amazing and stimulating exhibition that will give visitors a new perspective and insight into their own
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They’ll sell it, lose it or abuse it:
Can you trust researchers with your confidential data?
This house believes that clinical research has too few safeguards for consent and confidentiality.
4.1 Scepticism about the External World
Part 4.1. Introduces the problem of how do we have knowledge of the world, how do we know what we perceive is in fact what is there?
17.42 Causes and Prevention of War (MIT)
The causes and prevention of interstate war are the central topics of this course. The course goal is to discover and assess the means to prevent or control war. Hence we focus on manipulable or controllable war-causes. The topics covered include the dilemmas, misperceptions, crimes and blunders that caused wars of the past; the origins of these and other war-causes; the possible causes of wars of the future; and possible means to prevent such wars, including short-term policy steps and more uto
2.2 Collecting and selecting Writers are always on the alert for potential material. A notebook is an essential tool for any writer and has several functions. These range from the jotting down of observations while you’re out and about to an account of daily events, your rants and raves, ideas for poems, single words, clippings from newspapers, responses to books or poems you’ve read, notes from research, all kinds of ‘gathering’. Your notebook is for you, and it needs to contain whatever helps you or fuels
Ownership and trust Car production lines and orthapaedic surgery 2.3 Marketing department marketing It is common practice for an entire organisation's marketing activities, such as advertising, sales and market research, to be grouped together in a marketing department. The department's function is to create marketing plan activities that are designed to increase the customer's understanding of existing products and services. The marketing director manages all specialisms. Marketing is seen as ‘what the marketing department does’. Original Co Improve Your Research Capabilities: UGA Libraries - Books and So Much More Creating Teaching Portfolios: The Who, What, When, Why, and How Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the Sciences, Engineering and Health Care (Part One Alejandro González Iñárritu Masterclass How far did Edward IV restore law & order upon his accession in 1461? Reasons why the Yorkists had won the English Crown by 1461 How serious a threat were The Yorkists to Henry VII? How much support did Richard III enjoy as King? How able a King was Richard III? Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
In unique research, Julian Franks, Professor of Finance has looked back at over 100 years of data on corporate ownership. Relationships of trust are as important as ever
Kamalini Ramdas, Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School, has been helping orthopaedic surgeons learn from her research into how companies manage product quality and the effects of standardisation on quality
Are you new to UGA or a returning veteran? Do you sometimes feel as if the Libraries were a giant maze? Would you like to spend more time FINDING materials than SEARCHING for them? September 22nd all will be made clear.
This lively session is on making more efficient use of the myriad of tools the Libraries have to make your research time more profitable and less exhausting. Discover accessing ebooks and full-text journal articles and software packages to make bibliographies a snap. Libraries h
A teaching portfolio is a collection of teaching materials, including a teaching philosophy statement, that is helpful for improving teaching skills as well as for getting academic jobs. Regardless of whether you plan to apply for academic jobs at research institutions, primarily teaching institutions, or any kind of institution in between, having a teaching portfolio as a graduate student or post-doc can make a difference in whether or not you get a request for information or an interview. This
In Doug Lauffenburger’s view, MIT’s new bioengineering degree program is not merely justified, it is essential. Revolutionary changes in biological sciences—specifically, in molecular biology and genomics—have given scientists the means to understand and control both the building blocks and larger systems of
In a masterclass held in partnership with NFTS and The Script Factory, Alejandro González Iñárritu presents a brilliant and comprehensive account of his approach to filmmaking. An hour in his company reveals an eloquence to match his passion for the medium as he tells the story of his career and his practice. His fertile imagination is allied to a rare ability to animate the abstractions of the creative process through anecdote and metaphor. Watch the whole event at www.bfi.org.uk/live/video/
How far did Edward IV restore law & order upon his accession in 1461? A presentation by Dr. David Grummitt, Senior Research Fellow, The History of Parliament Project, for The History Faculty:...
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
Reasons why the Yorkists had won the English Crown by 1461: A presentation by Dr. David Grummitt, Senior Research Fellow, The History of Parliament Project, for The History Faculty:...
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
How serious a threat were The Yorkists to Henry VII?: A presentation by Dr. David Grummitt, Senior Research Fellow, The History of Parliament Project, for The History Faculty:...
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
How much support did Richard II enjoy as King? A presentation by Dr. David Grummitt, Senior Research Fellow, The History of Parliament Project, for The History Faculty: www.thehistoryfaculty.com.
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
How able a King was Richard III? A presentation by Dr. David Grummitt, Senior Research Fellow, The History of Parliament Project, for The History Faculty: www.thehistoryfaculty.com.
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
After viewing William Mitchell’s presentation, viewers may wish to apply to MIT, or at the very least, take a campus tour, to experience up close the architecture he describes. Mitchell’s talk -- drawn from his recent book, Imagining MIT-- first skims the history of MIT’s classical, industry-minded buildings, then f
