The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part Two)
William Mitchell opens this session by describing MIT as an “enormously critical place.” The Stata Center, during its design and construction, fed the campus “attitude of not taking anything for granted and rethinking premises.” So it’s no surprise that debate and some sparring ensue during this spirited panel.
Global Resources and the Built Environment
With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world’s resources, setting the stage for global crisis. Yet Fernandez counters his own bleak picture with some bright examples of design that could help humans live within thei
Video: “Live Art: Learning to Cry on Cue”
Assistant Professor of Art Amelia Winger-Bearskin started out as a performer for opera, dance and theatrical performances in film and stage before becoming an artist. She still draws much of her inspiration for her artwork from the world she experienced “behind the scenes.” Winger-Bearskin will literally teach the audience how to cry on cue, using herselfkeep reading »
Thoreau at Creekside
Thoreau's cabin at Walden was only 1 1/2 to 2 miles from Concord, Mass. Most people, however, when they read the book, believe that he hid himself miles from civilization in the middle of a natural nowhere. In order to correct his misconception in the minds of his students--and to expand their knowledge of Transcendentalist philosophy generally--Dickinson College English professor Ash Nichols walked his students from campus to his house at Creekside. At Creekside they met Thoreau himself in a re
Madrigal Singers-Every Gift Matters
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Dance at UMass Amherst
The UMass Amherst Dance Program believes in a strong cross-understanding of dance forms, and so it emphasizes jazz dance, African dance, and other world forms, in our curriculum, alongside intense training in modern dance and ballet. The program helps students pave the way towards a healthy, balanced life, in whatever field (performing, therapy, teaching, technology) that they happen to follow.
You Kiss by the Book': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet presents "star-cross'd" lovers whose plight has become the subject of many of today's novels, plays, films, and television dramas. Explore with your students the techniques that Shakespeare uses to capture the magic of the couple's first meeting and to make that meeting so memorable. This lesson plan complements the study of plot and characterization in Romeo and Juliet in its focus on lyrical form and convention that heighten the impact of the action on the stage.
MSUToday: Mohammmed's view
Iraqi boy Mohammed takes us behind-the-scenes during his time in Michigan to receive life-change medical care from Michigan State doctors.
MSUToday Show #22: Complete show
Michigan State's Smart Microsystems Lab and assistant professor Xiaobo Tan explain the 'Robofish'; Mohammed takes us behind-the-scenes; Oscar winning composer John Corigliano visits MSU; and MSU College of Engineering's State Racing Baja program gets muddy.
General Information About Cervical Cancer
Cerival cancer: Stages of cervical cancer, recurrent cervical cancer, treatment options overview by stage, learn more about cervical cancer, risk factors. This sites also lists Possible signs of cervical cancer, discusses cervix invasion (malignant cancer cells), and explanation of examinations used to diagnose cervical cancer.
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Prime Time in Transition
Fear not, fans of character-based TV fiction: reality shows will not obliterate tales featuring “transactions between human beings – the Jane Austen end of things,” as John Romano puts it. This veteran of some of TV’s finest cop dramas (including Hill Street Blues and Monk) sees wrenching changes in
