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A Humanitarian and A Scholar

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2013Educationanatomy lab course, certified, community college, emergency medical technician, emt, ethical implications, fulbright scholar experience, human biology, humanitarian, humanitarian work, iowa, lesa nord, life sciences, linguistics, Mexico, north hennepin, scholar, school biology, spanish, twin cities campus, united kingdom, university of manchester, visible heart lab

U alum Lesa Nord talks about her Fulbright Scholar experience

Lesa Nord was one of two U students on the Twin Cities campus to receive a highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship this year to the United Kingdom, where she is completing an interdisciplinary degree in humanitarianism and conflict response at the University of Manchester.

Nord began her college education at North Hennepin Community College before transferring to the U and receiving a bachelor of individualized studies with high distinction from the College of Liberal Arts. Along the way she has become a certified Emergency Medical Technician, and she’s already served as a volunteer interpreter and technician on medical mission trips in developing countries. (more…)

Higgs Boson Discussion Launches UChicago Discovery Series

By Guest PostFebruary 20, 2013Education, Science17 miles, accelerator, aircraft, argonne physicist, atlas, calibrate, cern physics laboratory, circumference, critical mass, david logan center, detector, donald levy, elementary particles, fermi, gigantic machines, higgs boson, high energy physics, internet, Large Hadron Collider, lch, lightening arresters, louis block professor, marcela carena, mark oreglia, mass, national accelerator laboratory, particle, particle beams, patricia mcbride, physics, protocol for communicating, sterilize milk cartons, switzerland, theoretical physicists, time, tom lecompte, toroidal lhc apparatus, uchicago discovery series, universe, university of chicago, virtual audience, young kee kim

The long-sought Higgs boson—the particle that endows all elementary particles in the universe with mass—was elusive no longer when scientists at the CERN physics laboratory in Switzerland, discovered it last summer.

The July 4, 2012 announcement of the discovery appealed to both the general public and the media: Fifty-five media organizations and more than one billion television viewers made it an event that couldn’t be missed. Time even dubbed the Higgs boson “Particle of the Year.” (more…)

Digitization with Google

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Education, Technologybook online, cliff haka, dayna topalian, digital library, digitization with google, Google, google books website, google project, hathitrust, human memory, library, midwestern universities, msu, nancy fleck, public domain, steven sowards

Books from the Michigan State University Libraries will soon be digitized by Google to become part of the Google Books website.

Google Books has digitized millions of titles from university libraries and indexed the contents so users can search across the entire set. MSU’s participation is part of Google’s contract with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of Midwestern universities. (more…)

In Conversation with: Elizabeth Bradley, College Master with a Global Reach

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Elizabeth Bradley started her career on the faculty at Yale in 1996 and currently serves in a variety of roles at the University, including professor of public health, faculty director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute, and master of Branford College.

Her research focuses on strengthening health systems and has contributed important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the hospital, nursing home, and hospice settings. She has been involved with several international projects including research in China, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Bradley spoke recently about her work on campus and around the world, and the many other items on her “to-do” list. (more…)

Survey: More Freshmen than Ever Say They Go to College to Get Better Jobs, Make More Money

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The current economic situation in the United States has a major influence on first-year students’ decisions about which college to attend and is reflected in their reasons for pursuing higher education, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA’s annual survey of the nation’s entering students at four-year colleges and universities.

The survey, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), is administered nationally by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Two out of three first-year students (66.6 percent) surveyed said they believe current economic conditions significantly affected their choice of college, up from 62.1 percent just two years earlier, when the question was first asked. (more…)

Vocabulary Instruction Failing U.S. Students

By Guest PostJanuary 29, 2013Educationbennett woods, elementary school in okemos, elementary school journal, hysterical, kindergarten classrooms, low reading comprehension, low vocabulary scores, meaning of words, michigan state university, naep test, students, susan neuman, tanya wright, vocabulary instruction, vocabulary words

Vocabulary instruction in the early years is not challenging enough to prepare students for long-term reading comprehension, argues a study led by a Michigan State University education researcher.

The study, which appears in Elementary School Journal, analyzed commonly used reading curricula in U.S. kindergarten classrooms. It found that, generally, the programs do not teach enough vocabulary words; the words aren’t challenging enough; and not enough focus is given to make sure students understand the meaning of the words. (more…)

Technology in the Classroom

By Guest PostJanuary 25, 2013Educationcampaign ads, classroom, election campaign, facebook group, information, ipads, it transformation grant, karl rove, new york times, paul brewer, presidential election, public opinion polls, ralph begleiter, road to presidency, robert gibbs, rove gibbs debate, Technology, traditional media, university of delaware, washington post

UD students use iPads to study the presidential election

Ralph Begleiter and Paul Brewer, professors in the University of Delaware’s Department of Communication, wanted to see if students enrolled in their Road to the Presidency class would pay more attention to the presidential election if media were at their fingertips 24/7. Through a UD Information Technologies (IT) Transformation Grant, iPads were distributed to students enrolled in the course.

“There is something about a student laying their finger on the iPad and discovering what event occurred to make a jump in public opinion popularity occur. It’s that interactivity that makes it a personal experience for the student,” Begleiter observed. (more…)

Is Social Media an Effective Instrument for Qualitative Education?

By Guest PostJanuary 16, 2013Education, Technologyatmosphere, cross cultural, drug, dynamic tool, education, educative goals, Environment, evolutionwriters, Facebook, globalized world, google hangouts, homework writing help, ict, identity fraud, interactive, internet databases, knowledge base, learning networks, negative facets, network, online project, online resources, online stalking, qualitative study, scamming, self, social media, societal awareness, team networking, Technology, tentacles, video chat, younger generation

Learn about the reasons why social media can be efficient and easy tool in education process!

Students breathe social media; it’s like a drug spreading its tentacles over the younger generation. However, parents and teachers have begun to realize the importance of social media for the younger generation. For instance, they use the Internet databases and social media collaboration as homework writing help tools.

In fact, here is a latest Infographic released by Project Information Literacy on how college students rely on online resources for qualitative study. (more…)

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