Five Students: Brittany Smith performs passionately
At age six, dancing came naturally to Brittany. Then she saw the Broadway production, Riverdance. "I was just in complete awe." Her passion for Irish dance continued through high school, when she performed on television and competed worldwide.
http://www.purdue.edu/fivestudents/culture/smith.html
A tribute to Norman Borlaug
The life and accomplishments of Dr. Norman Borlaug were remembered at a Memorial Service at the McNamara Alumni Center at the University of Minnesota on October 8, 2009.
Nancy Pressman Levy: Google Search Strategies PDF
Are you one of those Google searchers who just pop in a word or two in the search box and hope for the best? If so, this presentation is for you. This session covers *basic* Google searching tips which will help you to maximize the power of Google. Find out how you can limit your searches to a particular web site or domain (government, organization, university etc.), limit by file type, search for scholarly articles and books, perform calculations and more.
More info: http://blogs.princeton.
Computing in the Cloud - Part 1: "Introduction" – January 14, 2008
"Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend.
Part 1 includes introductory remarks by H. Vincent Poor, and a survey talk by
Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How the integration of digital tools and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has the potential to add dramatically to the capacity of the humanities to more fully understand and explain the dynamics of environmental change. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/beyond_words_environmental_history_digitization_and_gis.html
Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS PDF
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How the integration of digital tools and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has the potential to add dramatically to the capacity of the humanities to more fully understand and explain the dynamics of environmental change. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/beyond_words_environmental_history_digitization_and_gis.html
Deadly landslides hit Venezuela
Thousands of Venezuelans flee their homes as landslides and flooding kill at least 21 people and threaten to cause more damage.
John Jameson, Shani Hilton: "Blogs, Lulz and Tweets - Social Media Comes to Princeton" - October 14,
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: More traffic comes to Princeton.edu from Facebook, Wikipedia, College Confidential, FARK, and StumbleUpon than any mainstream media news site. Controlling Princeton's image on these social media sites is not always possible, but joining the conversation often is. Using examples from our institutional presence as well as faculty presence on the social Web, we will explore the role social media can take in a strategic communications plan.
For departments and individua
The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World - November 19, 2009
In his lecture, “The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World,” Romano Prodi will examine the benefits and challenges presented by the European Union’s expansion. Although the enlargement of the union has had significant impact on the democratic transition in eastern Europe and has extended European markets, there is no unanimity on issues of security, energy, and foreign affairs. Prodi maintains that if the EU aims to play a key role on the world’s political stage, it will need to develop
Is an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey? – November 30, 2009
Plutarch and Heraclitus believed that a certain passage in the 20th book of The Odyssey (“Theoclymenus’s prophecy”) was a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier sack of Troy around 1192–1184 B.C.E. However, much skepticism remains about whethe
Is an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey? – November 30, 2009
Plutarch and Heraclitus believed that a certain passage in the 20th book of The Odyssey (“Theoclymenus’s prophecy”) was a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier sack of Troy around 1192–1184 B.C.E. However, much skepticism remains about whethe
America's War on Immigrants: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions - December 10, 2009
The President’s Lecture Series was established by President Shirley M. Tilghman in the fall of 2001 to give Princeton’s faculty an opportunity to learn about the work of their colleagues in other disciplines and to share their research with the University community. First proposed by Alan B. Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy, the lectures are presented three times a year and are open to the public.
Lecture 38 - 12/1/2010
Lecture 38
Listen: Interdisicplinary project includes rising star in contemporary classical music
An interdisciplinary research project at Vanderbilt, in partnership with the ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, has commissioned a piece of original music from award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. This fall the piece will be premiered and recorded by ALIAS, which includes musicians from the Blair School.
Lecture 29 - 12/1/2010
Lecture 29
Ecole Européenne d'été 2009 VF - Vers une harmonisation des pratiques et des législations de l'A
Titre : Une harmonisation des pratiques et des législations de l'AMP ?
Résumé : Qu'est-ce que l'AMP ? La législation est très différente au sein de l'Union Européenne. Ne serait-il pas judicieux de tenter une harmonisation et de rechercher des solutions alternatives pour un consensus ?
Intervenant : BEVIERE Bénédicte
SCD Médecine.
Ecole Européenne d'été 2009 VF - Restrictions dans la CE du mouvement des personnes (video)
Restrictions dans la Communauté Européenne du mouvement des personnes en cas de problèmes touchant à la santé par Lukas PRUDIL.
SCD Médecine.
Looking at 20th Century Art through the Eyes of a Physicist
Physicist and art collector Walter Lewin shares his personal insights into major works of art from the first quarter of the 20th century.
Known in the hallways of building 37 for his famous art contests, Lewin succumbs to pressure from students and colleagues to give this lecture as part of an IAP event in advance of trips to t
The Laser at 50
This group of luminaries from the formative years of the laser expresses both wonder and delight at the astonishing ubiquity this technology has achieved in their lifetime. They recount their parts of a 50-year tale, and convey the excitement of scientific discovery and the pleasures of advancing knowledge in a new field.
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