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Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria

By BlogArenaJuly 16, 2014Culture, Education, Interview, Mediaaustria, baban mohamed, bicultural acquisition, bilingualism, child code switching, code switching, community, kurdish immigrant, kurdish immigrant children

Baban Mohamed received his Master’s degree in English and American Studies (General/Applied Linguistics) from the University of Salzburg in Austria. He has B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Sulaimania (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Since 2005 Baban is living and studying in the beautiful Mozart’s City of Music, Salzburg. His research interests cover the areas of bilingual/ bicultural acquisition, child code-switching and sociolinguistics. (more…)

Effort to Enforce HIV ‘Health Threat’ Law Raises Questions

By Guest PostFebruary 1, 2013General, Healthadvocates, blood draw, community, database, diagnose, epidemiological data, health threat law, hiv positive woman, hiv surveillance technologies, hiv-positive, local jurisdictions, medical information, michigan health officials, people, policymakers, public health policy, sex, sexual partners, sexually transmitted diseases, stakeholders, trevor hoppe, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — Michigan health officials are using HIV surveillance technologies to assist in enforcing a “health threat” law that makes it illegal for HIV-positive people to have sex without disclosing their status.

A new University of Michigan study reveals that health officials employ the state’s names reporting database, alongside partner services referrals, for law enforcement purposes. However, this is bad social policy for a variety of reasons, says Trevor Hoppe, the study’s author and a doctoral candidate in sociology and women’s studies. (more…)

A Tradition is Born

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2012Educationafrican american, african studies, allan kerandi, barflaan tedoe, black, career, community, cowboys, dead end, eric dormoh, film, giants, halloween, hay ride, horace huntley, huntley house, jasmine omorogbe, kohlman thompson, male student, minnesota, morrill hall, nfl, patrick troup, pharmacy, profit idowu, sanford hall, spike lee, university, walt jacobs, wyoming

At Huntley House, black male students find companions and support

It’s not every day you get to meet somebody who’s made history.

That happened in September for the young men of Huntley House, a section of Sanford Hall for black, male first-year students.

The students met Huntley House namesake Horace Huntley, who in 1969 took part in the takeover of Morrill Hall and occupation of the president’s office. The action called attention to the situation of black University of Minnesota students and led to the creation of what is now the Department of African American & African Studies. (more…)

Oracle and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Java Innovation through OpenJDK

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2010Technologybusiness software, community, hasan rizvi, ibm, Java, java community process, java development kit, java environment, java investments, java runtime environment, java se development, jcp, jdk, jre, mobile applications, open source, openjdk, openjdk reference implementation, oracle, rod smith, web, write once run anywhere

REDWOOD SHORES, CA & ARMONK, NY – 11 Oct 2010: Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the companies will collaborate to allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK community to develop the leading open source Java environment. (more…)

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Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria

Effort to Enforce HIV ‘Health Threat’ Law Raises Questions

A Tradition is Born

Oracle and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Java Innovation through OpenJDK