Archive for September, 2011
U of Florida Gets Serious About Innovation
The St. Petersburgh Times reports that the University of Florida is building a new space adjacent to its campus to foster innovation that will bring jobs and wealth to the Gainesville area. It is a pretty ambitious effort: Situated just a block between the east edge of campus and downtown Gainesville, the development aims to [...]
A New Resource for Higher Education Planning
The Society for College and University Planning has launched a new web portal to keep abreast of the major planning challenges facing colleges and universities. The opening page raises some very fundamental questions that the portal is intended to help participants answer: “Do we still need physical classrooms? Are courses effective when information is fluid [...]
The Geography of the “New Normal”
In case you missed the report in Monday’s New York Times, the last few years may have produced a dramatic change in how various sections of the US fare economically. How dramatic? Here is a quote from an economist who has been looking at these regional changes: “Because the recovery is so painfully slow, people [...]
Mind-reading technology. . .
. . . may be just around the corner, according to recent research at UC Berkeley: Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios within [...]
Looking for Something Else to Worry About?
Let’s see, there’s global warming, the global recession, the capture of one of America’s great political parties by a handful of zealots. . . Anything else we should be worrying about? Oh yes, our electric grid! The Economist‘s Babbage blog has a bleak overview of where things stand, how deregulation was a very mixed blessing [...]
