Blog #2 From Indy

The Proof is in the Pudding: So just want does goes into hosting a wrinkle free international sporting spectacle?

Weather: It is no secret that Indy get it share of winter storms. The first weekend in February last year held an ice storm that put many people out of power for days. Indy officials and the Host Committee had its fair share of anxiety concerning the unknown weather factor. However, Indy has experienced an unusual warming trend with weather in the 50s. This temperatures are supposed to drop as the week progresses, but the sheer absence of a blizzard is enough to alleviate major weather concerns for folks responsible for ensuring a positive experience in Indy.

Blog #1 From Indy

Hoosier Hospitality is the image Indianapolis wants to portray while hosting their first Super Bowl. The city has worked for years to land what is the Big Fish of sporting events. In May of 2008, it was announced that Indy was finally given this honor. Since that day (or years before depending on how much of this blog you read wink, wink) the city has worked diligently to host the most fan friendly game in Super Bowl history.

Recent preparations included everything from volunteers knitting Blue and White Super Scarves to building the flagship hotel the JW Marriot to purchasing and install $1,200 devices to prevent manhole covers from blowing off.

Looking further back, Indy has been working toward this week for half a century. In the 1960s Indianapolis was known as sleepy, stinky, and scary ‘nap’ town. People worked downtown in the government, finance and business sectors and then ‘got out of dodge’ as quickly as possible. For good reason as there was nothing to do downtown except dodge the droppings of the rampant pigeons.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

A talk by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Ponoma College and Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association. What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it's clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and the scholars that comprise it change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.

Date:
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Location:
Room 211 Student Center

Biology Seminar - Genomic Patterns of Hybridization and Adaption in Annual Sunflowers

 

WHO: Jared Strasburg, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Indiana University

WHAT: “Genomic Patters of Hybridization and Adaption in Annual Sunflowers”

WHERE: Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 107

WHEN: 3:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.

Date:
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Location:
Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 107

Biology Seminar - The Evolution of Vision in Mantis Shrimp

 

WHO: Megan Porter, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland

WHAT: “The Evolution of Vision in Mantis Shrimp: A Multifaceted Approach

WHERE: Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 116

WHEN: 4:00p.m. – 5:00p.m.

Faculty Host: Vincent Cassone

Date:
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Location:
Thomas Hunt Morgan Building Room 116

EES Seminar - John Holbrook

 

WHO: John M. Holbrook, Texas Christian University

WHAT: Large mid-continent earthquakes are a thing of the past: The facies proxy record of Holocene deformation events in the New Madrid Seismic zone courtesy of the Mississippi River

WHERE: Slone Research Building, Room 303

WHEN: 3:50p.m.

Date:
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Location:
Slone Research Building Room 303

EES Seminar - From Bug to Basin: Along-strike Variability of Shallow-Marine and Coastal Plain Strata

 

WHO: M. Royhan Gani, University of New Orleans

WHAT: From bug to basin: Along-strike variability of shallow-marine and coastal plain strata

WHERE: Slone Research Building Room 303

WHEN: 3:50p.m.

Date:
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Location:
Slone Research Building Room 303
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