This Week @Minnesota: Weisman Art Museum, Bike Center and iPhone App
In "This Week @Minnesota" for the week of September 26-30, we go behind the scenes of the new Weisman Art Museum expansion, take a look at the newly-completed U of M Bike Center and play a mobile app designed by a U faculty member.
Pass it Forward
Pass it forward video from 2011
Robert Sabuda and the Pop-Up Book
In this video, a student interviews Robert Sabudo, a famous pop-up book engineer and artist. He describes how he became interested in pop-up books, how he designs his books, and demonstrates making a simple pop-up book. ( 4:19)
Discussion for September 22, 2011
Discussion about research-related ethical issues and behavior genetics.
UW Video: TV Lunchbox
Join us for the first summer session of the UW Video Lunchbox! In this upcoming session we will present information to help you find a great story and create a polished presentation with PowerPoint, as well as a how-to on displaying your slides and presenter together.
The Pattern That Connects
While patterns have a spotty history in architecture, their definitions and uses in other fields offer new possibilities for design. This paper examines those definitions and uses?including theories put forward by architectural theorist, Christopher Alexander; art educator, Gyorgy Kepes; chemist, Ilya Prigogine; and anthropologist, Gregory Bateson. Of particular interest is the shift from eternal, essential, universal, and fundamental patterns to fleeting, superficial, specific, and incidental v
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Mount Fuji
This three minute video is about this mountain and data about it and its celebrated status in Japan.
Act of Union Debate, House of Lords
A recreation (and reimagination) of the debates over the passing of the Irish Act of Union, 1799-1800. This is a 4:30 long video and may be difficult for students to follow unless they have good knowledge of what went on before hand.
Research & Communication Skills (RCS) Weekly sessions (2011/12)
Research & Communication Skills (RCS) Weekly sessions (2011/12)
Changing Fortunes: income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Stephen Jenkins, Professor Simon Burgess, Professor John Hills | Stephen Jenkins launches his book, Changing Fortunes: income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain, a comprehensive and original study of how people's incomes change between one year and the next. Stephen Jenkins is professor of economic and social policy at LSE. John Hills is professor of social policy and director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at LSE. Simon Burgess is professor
3.8 Moon40: Apollo 14 station H The panorama was collected by Edgar Dean at station H. Alan Shepard is to the left of the lander aiming the TV camera at the MESA. (QuickTime, 500KB, note: this may take some time to download depending on your connection speed) Valpo Campus Overview Adam Riess - Nobel Press Conference Mother Nature and the Earthworm Bernanke testimony shows slight shift in tone: Allen Sinai 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Graduate skills IDS336 Session 5 Fall 2011
This video provides an overview of Valparaiso University which enrolls about 4,000 students from most states and more than 50 countries, constituting an international, interconnected community. Valpo offers five colleges for undergraduates — the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Business Administration, College of Nursing, and Christ College (honors college) — as well as graduate studies and a law school.
Valparaiso University is an independent Lutheran instit
Johns Hopkins University professor and researcher Adam Riess was named a 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Astronomy for his study of "dark energy" and its role in the expansion of the universe.
This brief clip from Sesame Street explains the relationship between the earthworm and a tree. This video clip could be used to compliment the story Earthworms by Claire Llewellyn. (01:06)
Oct. 4 - Decision Economics Chief Global Economist Allen Sinai says Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before Congress shows a subtle shift in whether the Fed should act, or wait out the economy.
Announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 4 October 2011. Read more about the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Physics, Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess on http://www.nobelprize.org/
Graduate Skills is one of the series of Futures workbooks, which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio.
The aim of this workbook is to introduce you to the concept of graduate job skills and enterprise, looking at which career path you decides to follow. It’s not j
IDS336 Jazz in the Modern Era Session Five 10/04/11 Chet Hanley
