With classes looming just around the corner, many of us are starting to think (and worry) about how we're going to afford our textbooks. This article shows many tips on how to get textbooks for good deals, or even for free!
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I just read this article, entitled, "Missouri Outlaws Student-Teacher Facebook Friendship." Again, it seems like these discussions about social media effects and applications seem to gravitate towards me. But, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts. As new technologies develop, new laws sprout up governing the use of such technologies. Don't believe me? Is sexting inappropriate? Would making it illegal be an infringement of privacy? What about spam? Shouldn't it be protected under the 1st ammendment? What if the one doing the spamming resides outside the United States? I had the pleasure of exploring these topics a few semesters ago in my Media Law & Regulation class. Neat stuff, right?
Corrine Price, an undergraduate senior, worked as an intern at the Saartijie Baartman Centre for Women and Children, a domestic violence shelter in Cape Town, South Africa. The trip was sponsored by the University of Kentucky and was in conjunction with the Kentucky and South Africa Initiative: "Different Lands, Common Ground."
Energy will be a central focus for new assistant professors, who will find a second home at UK's Center for Applied Energy Research.
I dig musician/songwriter Bill Callahan. He's been at it for a long time - working under the "Smog" moniker for many moons before shedding that skin and performing under his own name for the past few years. He's run the gamut from lo-fi home recording (long before GarageBand) to his current, more polished sheen. "America!" from his new album Apocalypse is filled with great imagery of a nation past and present - shifting gears from name dropping some of his songwriting heroes, to pop-culture references to war and the political.
Just watched the video and it really struck me with its lyrical style and amazing visuals - separately unique, but also equal to Callahan's songwriting. It's the kind of piece that I hope that the talented people here at A&S can explore making - a great example of blending cool illustration/animation with narrative. Not only complemeting it, but enhancing it to new heights. It's pretty inspiring stuff - to me at least. Major props to the team behind this - Okay Mountain/Dave Bryant.
Opulence and squalor usually seem worlds apart. Country clubs usually don’t border low-income housing, designer clothing stores purposefully keep access to their goods limited to only a certain clientele (if you haven’t seen the movie Pretty Woman, watch it and you’ll get the reference), and the checking accounts that most people take for granted are a privilege offered only to people who have quality credit. Yet, I just experienced an exception to this rule.
I just landed in Kunming, which is a town in southwestern China. My hosts Xinyue Zhou, Ding-guo Gua, and I flew here to attend the biennial Asian Association of Social Psychology conference. (We’re usually in a town called Guangzhou, which is located in south central China.)
History professor Karen Petrone's new book unearths a wealth of buried stories from the Soviet state about the memory of World War I.
Mark Kornbluh, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, wants A&S students to succeed. One way they can stay on track is to take summer & online courses. The latest UK at the Half segment focused on course offerings for Summer 2012. Carl Nathe, host of UK at the Half, interviewed the Dean for the radio program, which airs during each UK basketball game.
Nathan DeWall is one of three co-directors of A&S Wired, a residential college which will open its doors in August 2011. In this interview, he discusses options for learning opportunities inside and out of A&S Wired.
GIS (Geographic Information System) merges cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology with the purpose of storing, analyzing, and displaying geographic information to inform decision-making. Because of the demands of interdisciplinary research applications, Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s premier academic institution, has constructed an integrated GIS-based application infrastructure within the spatial extent of China, in the timeframe of Chinese history, and with the contents of Chinese civilization. Speaking from his extensive experience with this project, Dr. I-chun Fan will discuss the connection between GIS and Interdisciplinary research.
Presenter:
Dr. I-chun Fan is a Research Fellow, at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan as well as the Executive Director of the Center for Geographic Information Science, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences. His areas of expertise include Chinese Economic History and the Historical Geographic Information System (GIS). He received his PhD in History from Stanford University.
Host Center:
Through its Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP), Academia Sinica is collaborating with the Vis Center to preserve ancient documents while unlocking the knowledge contained in them. Combining the technical strengths of the Vis Center team with the cultural knowledge and goals of Academia Sinica creates the opportunity to preserve history while at the same time developing new technology that is pushing the boundaries of existing digitization techniques.
