April 2006

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Big trend on campus: podcasting

College students who miss a class can go online to keep up with work or other offerings By JAY REY News Staff Reporter 4/25/2006 It used to be college students actually had to go to...

Deans crack down on students to eliminate unfair advantage

By Mat Vross, Senior Writer With the approach of final exams and final project deadlines nearing, some students may turn to technology for an unfair advantage over their classmates. Heather Webb, student affairs specialist for...

The University Channel

Donna Liu, University Channel Director What if the public could listen to the best minds and newest ideas at colleges and universities around the world? What if the academic research and analysis that aims to...

Virtual Office Hours with Blackboard

When approached by their teaching assistants with the dilemma of overly large precepts, two co-instructors decided to be creative with the technology tools available to them. Rather than scheduling office hours to advise students one-on-one,...

Intellectual Property Focus of Campus Conference

The Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies is pleased to welcome all attendees to the Princeton University - Microsoft Intellectual Property Conference, May 18-20. Few areas of law are changing as rapidly...

Getting the Grants: Boost Your Chances!

By John Moore Grants help fill the funding gap at a time when dollars from government coffers—and even some private sources—have dwindled. IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY arena, a number of tech companies offer grants that...

Visualizing Spatial Information in the Classroom

GIS, just another three letter acronym, or an integral part of research and teaching? Today, when students need spatial information, they no longer turn first to paper maps. Rather, they use web browsers to search...

Tim Berners-Lee comes to Princeton University

Wednesday night, April 5, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, shared his vision of the future of the web with a packed house in McCosh 50. Just as a two decades ago...

Challenging Google, Microsoft Unveils a Search Tool for Online Scholarly Articles

By SCOTT CARLSON Microsoft is introducing a new search tool today that will help people find scholarly articles online. The service, which will include journal articles from prominent academic societies and publishers, puts Microsoft in...

Laptop Orchestra boots up in N.J.

By David Patrick Stearns - Inquirer Music Critic PRINCETON - Having long taken pop music hostage, electronically generated sounds often threaten to revolutionize more serious music - why not? - with an infinite variety of...

Dr. Martin Wikelski: Automated Radio-Tracking of Rainforest Animals

Imagine getting an alert on your Blackberry because a two-tied sloth had just died in Panama. The March 29 Lunch ‘n Learn featured Martin Wikelski and Axel Haenssen discussing an Automated Radio-Tracking of Rainforest Animals....