Sandy Pearce, English, presented a paper at the James Joyce International Symposium in Dublin this June. After a week of scholarly presentations and plenary lectures, the Symposium ended with hours of festivities on June 16th, Bloomsday, the day that Joyce’s fictional character Leopold Bloom walks the streets of Dublin.
Because of the new Minnesota Conference of Undergraduate Scholarly and Creative Activity (MNCUSCA) and the special constraints that it places on the application process, there will be a two-stage application window for the Student Academic Conference. The early window is only for those students wishing to be considered for MNCUSCA. Because a large number of MNCUSCA projects were multi-semester projects, […]
Dr. Benjamin Smith, Languages and Cultures, attended the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory sponsored by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) at St. John’s University and the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota from June 3-8. He spent most of the week working on a manuscript fragment from a 13th century copy of St. Isidore’s Etymologiae, a sort […]
Linda Winkler, Physics and Astronomy, attended the “Machines of the Future” workshop the week of Aug. 13-16. This workshop, held at the NDSCS Center for Nanoscience Technology Training in Fargo, gave participants working knowledge of microelectronic machine fabrication techniques as well as pedagogical teaching modules.
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended HI-TEC (High Impact Technology Exchange Conference) held in Denver July 23-26. He attended the pre-workshop “What’s in Your Genes?” on the nano-technology behind DNA microarrays and similar technology. He also presented a touch-screen pedagogical module he developed with Carrie Leopold, NDSCS, that is being adopted by the Southwest Center for Microsystems Education at the […]