scholarly journals Full steam ahead: Biochemical Society Meeting No. 675 Joint with The Physiological Society, University of York

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Gary Burd
Keyword(s):  
Society Meeting ◽  
Bullet Train ◽  
The University ◽  
Successful Collaboration ◽  
Evening Star ◽  
European Museum

The University of York provided the venue for this highly successful collaboration between the Biochemical Society and The Physiological Society, with over 800 attendees enjoying ten colloquia on subjects relevant to both societies. The meeting dinner was held at the National Railway Museum in York, which holds the award European Museum of the Year 2001. Diners were treated to a fabulous meal in the austere company of some of the country's finest locomotives, including the Mallard (pictured above), Evening Star, a reproduction of Stephenson's Rocket and Eurostar. New at the museum is the first ever Bullet train to be displayed outside of Japan. The report below is only a snapshot of what went on at the York Meeting. For papers from the speakers, take a look at Biochemical Society Transactions 30 (2) to be published in May.

scholarly journals German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session VI

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fenner
Keyword(s):  
Cell Biology ◽  
Society Meeting ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne.Saturday had two more sessions before the end of the meeting. Irina Stancheva from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh ...

cloud physics–prose or poetry?

1967 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 400-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Squires
Keyword(s):  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Cloud Physics ◽  
Weather Modification ◽  
Society Meeting ◽  
American Meteorological Society ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University

A keynote talk given at the American Meteorological Society meeting at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 20th March 1967: some thoughts on trends in cloud physics and weather modification studies.

ETD on a shoestring

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabor Feuer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Successful Launch ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Successful Collaboration

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how, with minimal budget, lots of goodwill, and successful collaboration, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) – at the time Ontario's newest university, could rapidly build an ETD collection. Design/methodology/approach – The project was sponsored by the UOIT library. DSpace was selected as the software platform. The paper describes the collaboration between the library, the faculty of graduate studies and the campus information technology department which resulted in the successful launch of the ETD program, Ontario's first example of establishing a born digital theses program and publishing platform. Findings – Innovative and risk-taking approaches combined with intra- and inter-organizational collaboration were the key factors contributing to success of the library ETD project. Originality/value – This case study emphasizes the value of entrepreneurial thinking. Other organizations can learn from the pitfalls and benefits encountered during the implementation of this project.

scholarly journals Book Reviews for Mathematics Undergraduates: an assignment to enhance reading and writing skills essential for today’s workplace and to promote collaboration between library and academic staff’

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel-Ann Bradshaw ◽  
Karen Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Successful Collaboration

This case-study shows how successful collaboration between colleagues from the University of Greenwich library and Mathematical Sciences department has resulted in increased library usage and an improvement in important employability skills for mathematics students.  It is argued that similar collaborations in other STEM disciplines within the University could have an equally beneficial effect.

The Discoveries at Ur, and the seniority of Sumerian civilization

Antiquity ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 56-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Hall
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The World ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
European Museum

The British Museum, jointly with the University Museum of Philadelphia, is carrying out at Ur ‘of the Chaldees’ what is now, since a slower pace has set in with the work of Evans at Knossos, the most important British archaeological excavation. Nothing like the recent discoveries at Ur has indeed been seen in a European museum since the appearance of Schliemann's finds at Mycenae, and no such rich find of gold objects has been made since the discovery of the wealth of Tutankhamon. Like Mycenae and Knossos, Mr Woolley's discoveries tell the archaeologist a very great deal that he did not know before. They may justly be claimed as the most important work of the kind now being carried on by any British or American museum or society, whether singly or jointly. The personnel is now wholly British, but Philadelphia pays half the piper and calls half the tune. This ‘ fifty-fifty ’ relation of absolute parity between the two museums is as it should be, and the two nations are to be congratulated on their harmonious partnership in the most important archaeological excavation in the world. I stress this for I do not think that the great importance of Mr Woolley’s finds is sufficiently realized. Not merely because they contain a lot of gold, as they do (and since gold of itself doth attract a journalist, this fact has received some public attention), but because they tell us so much that is new, which Tutankhamon, for all his splendour, did not. We may find this fact appreciated now that Mr Woolley’s first provisional publication of this year’s (1927) finds has appeared in the January (1928) number of the Antiquaries’ Journal, to which I must refer my readers for detail.

scholarly journals It’s Not About “Us”: Express Newark Prioritizing the Public Good

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Schaper Englot ◽  
Victor Davson ◽  
Chantal Fischzang ◽  
Tamara Fleming ◽  
Nick Kline
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Value System ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
The University ◽  
Successful Collaboration

Publically engaged scholarship demands new ways of working within and outside of the academy. Systems within the university reward faculty for individual achievements. This approach militates against working on collaborative projects because of the difficulty of explaining and quantifying one’s contribution. The culture of academia further inhibits potential collaborations and undermines even the most altruistic faculty, who are socialized to devalue the experiential, place-based knowledge of a community partner and encouraged to adopt a self-concept as “the” authority.          But if universities are to honor their commitment to the public good, the public must be prioritized in the academic value system, which ought to encourage new modes of thinking that recognize the legitimacy of the expertise of community partners and place value on collaboration with them. From the community perspective, there is often a lack of models for successful collaboration, with engagement by universities more often than not taking the form of exercising eminent domain or parachuting in to “fix” a problem and then abandoning the community. Community members carry with them skepticism that the university’s only use is as a source of hand-outs rather than a source of the kind of agency afforded by true collaboration.

Creating a Strategy for the Implementation of the QUT ePortfolio

2011 ◽  
pp. 410-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Emmett ◽  
Wendy Harper ◽  
Kim Hauville
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Integration Strategy ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Portfolio Design ◽  
Successful Collaboration

This chapter introduces the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ePortfolio project as an example of a successful collaboration and integration strategy within a higher education context. Following extensive piloting and testing, the portfolio was released to all students and staff late in 2004, and by May 2005 in excess of 10,000 portfolios had been commenced. This chapter will present insights into this project which reveal some key collaboration and integration strategy decisions that were taken by both the university and the portfolio design team. In order to support these insights, preliminary student, academic, and employer feedback is provided based on research carried out from 2003 to 2005. The authors hope that this chapter will provide insights that will enable other institutions to enjoy similar success.

Notes on The university of Sydney Pacioli Society meeting.

Abacus ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Boymal
Keyword(s):  
Society Meeting ◽  
The University
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