This goes under the, ‘of course, why didn't I think of that’ category. Facebook is building a data center near the Arctic circle. They’ll use artic air to help keep all those servers nice and cool. Which brings up two questions: Will the heat generated from all those servers effect the local climate? And, can you like Facebook on Facebook?
http://gizmodo.com/5853819/facebook-data-center-goes-arctic-for-chilling-effect
Since 2006, Wei Jiang has been a member of a team developing a series of online Chinese Language & Culture courses, taught through BlackBoard, aimed toward high school students. Once the curriculum is completed, courses will range from Chinese I to AP Levels I and II. These are currently available to students, and level III is in development.
This podcast was produced by Stephen Gordinier.
Indian New Year festival to be held at the Singletary Center.
At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Steve Davis is an assistant professor in the Department of History. Davis’s area of focus is the history of South Africa, particularly the history of the anti-apartheid struggle. He examines the uses and misuses of oral history in state narratives by comparing interviews with ex-combatants with the official narratives of the state.
Ambassador Amy Bondurant was inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame on October 21, 2011 at an event at Keene Barn at Keeneland in Lexington. This is a video biography of the UK alumna.
This Thursday at 6:00pm in room 249 in the Student Center (by the Credit Union), the Student Activities Board will be hosting the fourth installment of the James Baker Hall Writer Series. Come explore careers in writing through a panel discussion with Buck Ryan, Laura Ungar, Marc Jennings, and Rob Theakston! The evening will also include free refreshments.
For more information, please see the Facebook page or contact Shannon Ruhl at culturalarts@uksab.org.
About the panel:
Buck Ryan, director of the Citizen Kentucky Project at the University of Kentucky’s Scripps Howard First Amendment Center, is a tenured associate professor of journalism at UK’s School of Journalism and Telecommunications. He won the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2003 after serving eight years as director of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications. Ryan is the creator of the Maestro Concept, an innovative approach to story planning, writing and newsroom organization for newspapers, which debuted in a video and report to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1993, and has since reached audiences worldwide. Ryan has written three books Writing Baby, Editing Dog & You: A Friendly Place to Begin Improving Your Writing, The Editor’s Toolbox, A Reference Guide for Beginners and Professionals, an editing textbook with co-author Michael O’Donnell; and Wordwise, a language skills guide, also with O’Donnell. Ryan has produced four Kentucky Educational Television programs, including “Citizen Kentucky/Citizen China: Hope for a New Century,” “Beyond O.J.: A Public Journalism Forum on Domestic Violence,” “More Than Free Speech,” and “Citizen Kentucky: Democracy and the Media” which won a national Telly Award in 2002 for public affairs programming. Ryan also has more than 12 years of newspaper experience, working for the Niagara Falls Gazette, the Buffalo Evening News, and the Chicago Tribune.
Laura Ungar is the medical writer at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, a position she has held since 2004. She was born and raised in Connecticut and has been a journalist for 21 years, previously working as a reporter at The Hartford (Conn.) Courant and The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal. She has written major projects on cervical cancer in India, Kentucky's poor health, the prescription drug abuse crisis and cancer in Delaware, and has won more than 20 national, regional and local awards for her work -- as well the international Croly award for the India project. She also freelances, and has been published in The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.
Marc Jennings grew up in New York and Louisville, Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, he has worked in publishing for Prentice-Hall and F&W Publications, the publisher of Writer’s Digest books; for three advertising/marketing companies; and in public relations for the American Heart Association. He has written ads, collateral materials and press releases; TV and radio spots, which he also produced, cast and directed; book jacket copy; Web content; and newspaper and magazine articles. Writing assignments have taken him to explore the history of a house as old as the Constitution, behind the scenes at the Kentucky Speedway, and to the Gulf Coast for the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina. Jennings is now a freelance writer and editor in Oldham County, Kentucky.
Prior to his current job as Assistant Director for Events and Marketing at the UK Student Center, Rob Theakston was an Associate Editor for All Music Guide (allmusic.com) for seven years. His work has been published in URB, XLR8R, Big Idea Magazine, several other places with acronyms, and Detroit Free Press. He currently is a Senior Resident Advisor at the William C. Calcutt Foundation for Mapping and Metaphor Research and the 2009 recipient of the Joseph A. Talia Award.
The second Math and Pizza Meeting for the Fall 2011 semester
will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011, from 4pm to 5pm, in room CB 212.
Dr. Nick Kirby, from the Department of Mathematics, will give a talk titled How to make the best slide ever!
Abstract: Suppose you want to make the fastest slide connecting two points.
What shape should you make it?
In this talk, the mathematics of finding such shape will be described along with related
questions. Our friend, the derivative, will make an appearance and will be set to zero.
As usual pizza will be served.
For more information about the UK Math Club activities, please visit the website http://www.math.uky.edu/~mathclub.
As part of the College’s Year of China events, A&S is excited to welcome internationally renowned filmmaker Carma Hinton to campus this week. Keiko Tanaka, sociology professor and Director of the Asia Center, will show the documentary, “Morning Sun,” in her class, “Passport to China: Global Issues & Local Understanding.” "Morning Sun" is a psychological history of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place from 1964-1976. The film provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes — and reflected in the hearts and minds — of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Hinton was born and lived in China until she was 21. She received a doctorate in art history from Harvard University and has lectured on Chinese culture, history, and film at various educational institutions around the world.
The film will be shown on October 25 at 5:00pm in room 118 of the Whitehall Classroom Building. The discussion of the film with Hinton will be held on October 27 at 5:00pm also in room 118 of the Whitehall Classroom Building.
UK is one of America's first universities to receive students from the southwest Asian state of Oman in a five-year scholarship agreement with the nation's Ministry of Higher Education.
Dr. Kirk Hazen from West Virginia University discusses Fading Appalachian Dialect Features. This is part of the linguistics program speaker series.
