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Professor Google and those left wing academics

How can undergraduates with little exposure to a discipline or subject be expected to criticise their lecturer or tutor before gaining an understanding of the discipline or subject itself, asks Irfan Yusuf.

Half of Cambridge Students Cheat, Use Facebook, Google As Plagiarism Tools

A report published today by Varsity, Cambridge's Student Newspaper, found out that nearly half of Cambridge's undergraduates have "admitted to cheat" while only one in ten of the lot would get caught.

Peabody Museum hosts Harvard relics

At Monday’s opening of the “Digging Veritas� archeological exhibit, shards of 400-year-old wine jugs and shattered tobacco pipes showed that current undergraduates might have more in common with Harvard’s earliest alumni than they think.

Science writing, video production courses tell nanoscience stories

(Nanowerk News) The Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) at Johns Hopkins University strives to be integrative and multidisciplinary. With 170 faculty and more than two dozen graduate students and undergraduates with backgrounds as diverse as physics and computational medicine, the institute has sought to broaden skills and foster collaborations among its student body and its faculty members. That collaboration now extends to the relationship between science and the mass media through a course called Communication for Scientists and Engineers, which aims to give INBT’s graduate students hands-on experience in learning how to communicate complex ideas to non-technical audiences.

REVIEW | Hack Attack: Darren Lynn Bousman's "Repo! The Genetic Opera"

A helpful shortcut for negotiating the heaps of texts in this modern world: all attempts to give something familiar or antique a self-consciously edgy, gritty makeover can be, de facto, written off as terrible. Reassuring American songbook standards ("Over the Rainbow," "What a Wonderful World," etc.) performed in breakneck pop-punk style? Terrible. Movies set in centuries past where actual rules of comport are ignored and everyone acts like frisky undergraduates with ruffled collars? Terrible. Steampunk? Terrible, terrible, terrible.

Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science?

ruheling writes "From yesterday's New York Times: ' What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?' In many US universities, over the past decade, there has been deliberate effort to integrate and encourage women and girls to get more involved in the 'hard' sciences, engineering, and math. However, instead of the proportion of women to men increasing, in Computer Science the opposite is actually true. Specifically, in 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. Now many computer science departments report that women now make up less than 10 percent of the newest undergraduates. What's going on here, folks?"

Claremont Gradaute University Arts Management Program Expands With New Leadership

Claremont Gradaute University Arts Management Program Expands With New Leadership - Revamped program is the only of its kind in California, and it aims to keep Los Angeles' creative talent in the arts and nonprofits local. A recent study indicates that the arts and culture are the second-largest generator for the LA economy. As head of a municipal agency that funds 300 arts organizations each year, Zucker has long been concerned with the quality of leaders in the field. In 2000 she spurred the County to begin funding the largest arts internship program in the country in conjunction with the Getty Foundation. Close to 300 undergraduates are paid to work in Los Angeles area nonprofit arts organizations each summer.

Has the Joe Boat Sailed? Wanted: HPC Mascot

The concept of the "democratization of HPC" is not a new one, but in recent months it appears to have taken on a life of its own. Our own editors and Tabor Research analysts have alluded to it many times, including twice within the last week (see Michael Feldman's blog and his recent interview with Bob Graybill). It's a concept that has been leveraged by or associated with nearly a dozen vendors in the last few months, including Sun, Cray, Microsoft, Bull, AMD, Platform, Penguin, Red Hat and IBM. It's becoming de rigueur as a concept among researchers, academicians and industry, if you can judge from some of the excellent programs out there, including the Blue Collar Computing Initiative from OSC and the impressive Cluster Challenge for undergraduates hosted by SC.

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