1.2.1 Background information The city of Liverpool has seen the growth of a variety of religious and ethnic communities since the latter half of the nineteenth century. The north-west of England has had a strong tradition of Author(s):
Honors Colloquium: "Race, Identity and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age"
Speaker Duana Fullwiley is a Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University.Co-sponsored by the URI Multicultural Center.Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. URI's Fall Honors Colloquium will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters.
I Survived Melanoma
Founder of survivingskin.org and National Spokesperson for the American Academy of Dermatology, Meghan Rothschild speaks about her struggle with Melanoma.
Homecoming Honorees: Academic Spotlight
Each year the Missouri State University Alumni Association recognizes several individuals for their extraordinary achievements.
This year the award of appreciation for retired faculty and staff members was presented to Karen Horny, who served as the head of the Missouri State Library for almost 15 years. The outstanding young alumni award was presented to David Foley, Deputy Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service for the U.S. General Services Administration.
The outstanding alumni award
21L.701 Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare (MIT)
How does one writer use another writer's work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What difference does it make if she's a groundbreaking twentieth-century feminist and the writer she values has come to epitomize the English literary tradition? How can a novelist borrow from plays and poems? By reading Virginia Woolf's major novels and essays in juxtaposition with some of the Shakespeare plays that (depending on one's interpretation) haunt, enrich, and/or shape her writing
Laws of Power 46: Unleash Human Potential
Thunderbird Professor Karen Walch, Ph.D., continues her 48-week series on the Laws of Power for 21st Century Global Negotiators. Learn more at http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/worldcafe/
Laws of Power 47: Design for Rights and Intersts
Thunderbird Professor Karen Walch, Ph.D., continues her 48-week series on the Laws of Power for 21st Century Global Negotiators. Learn more at http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/worldcafe/
Chris Marshall, curator of the OSU Arthropod Collection
Chris Marshall from OSU's College of Science and curator of the university's arthropod collection takes us on an early morning journey to find an elusive scarab, a northwestern rain beetle.
These beetles only appear during the first winter rains in the Pacific Northwest, spending the bulk of their lives underground.
Join Chris and see if he can locate a rain beetle burrow.
Bolivia fuel hike sparks protest
Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of La Paz to protest against the government's decision to slash fuel subsidies, sending prices soaring.
The Future of Aid: changing paradigms and challenges in 2010 at ANU
Dr Patrick Kilby, Dr Colin Filer and Professor Stephen Howes take part in this discussion entitled 'The Future of Aid: changing paradigms and challenges in 2010', at The Australian National University on 12 October, 2010.
The rise of China as a major aid donor has challenged the very relevance of Australian aid operations. Particularly, Papua New Guinea has been embracing China's dominance as a way to remove itself from Australian Aid. Further, the backlash against the IMF and its structural ad
Quest Software's Azure Services In this interview, Dmitry Sotnikov (Director of Cloud Solutions) and Einar Mykletun (Security and Compliance Architect) from Quest Software discuss building Quest’s new OnDemand product line – cloud-based IT management services to help IT professionals manage their on-premise Active Directory and server infrastructure. We talk about what it took to build the services on top of the Windows Azure platform, focusing specifically on security. Quest is an early adopter of the Windows Azu
Stephen Toub: Task-Based Asynchrony with Async Stephen Toub goes deep into the design and architecture of the new Async features in C# and VB.NET, which rely heavily on .NET’s Task Parallel Library. You can get an early look at this new async programming model, available as the Async CTP, today!
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Mads Torgersen: Inside C# Async Mads Torgersen, C# specification lead, describes the new C# features to improve asynchronous development. You can get an early look at this new async programming model, available as the Async CTP, today!
Presidents attend Kirchner wake
South American leaders pay respects for former Argentine president, Nestor Kirchner
Retailers try early holiday start
American retailers are offering discounts weeks ahead of the traditional start to the holiday buying season in a bid to lure shoppers earlier than usual.
The British Museum: Ancient India
A site mainly geared to upper grades or middle school but very useful for early undergraduate classes, too. Provides excellent overview of Chinese culture with lots of visuals and interactive lessons.
British Museum: Ancient China
A site mainly geared to upper grades or middle school but very useful for early undergraduate classes, too. Provides excellent overview of Chinese culture with lots of visuals and interactive lessons.
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.
Improving the Sales Force
Professor Lynette Ryals discusses research, carried out in collaboration with Silent Edge, relating to improving the sales force, linking sales meeting behaviour to sales success.
