Assignment for March 30, 2009

Read Chapter Ten (10) of the required text, Kraft-Furlong.

Anyone who has not handed in his/her 2d short, written assignment should do so immediately.

I shall be giving the 3rd and final, short, written assignment at the beginning of class tomorrow. It will be due April 13, 2009

Assignment for March 23, 2009

Read Chapter Nine (9) of the required text, Kraft-Furlong.

Anyone who has not handed in his/her 2d short, written assignment should do so immediately.

Four (4) class members received “incomplete” for their midterm grade because they did not hand in one of their short, written assignments.

Early Warnings were sent to these individuals.

LabCast: City Car

The City Car is a stackable electric two-passenger city vehicle. The one-way sharable user model is designed to be used in dense urban areas. Vehicle Stacks will be placed throughout the city to create an urban transportation network that takes advantage of existing infrastructure such as subway and bus lines.

Click on the link for more video.

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Thanks to Mr. DeLuca!!

Stem Cells and the “Truth”: Ethics, Fraud, and the Politics of Science

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Length: 39 minutes

Gareth Cook, science journalist for the Boston Globe, presents a lecture on the complex relationship between science and politics in the stem cell debate. Cook was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his investigation of stem cell research and its scientific, social, and ethical ramifications.

Cook is introduced by Kevin Bedell, chairman of the physics department and Rourke Professor of Physics at Boston College.

Presenter(s): Gareth Cook

Date: February 8, 2006

Location: Higgins Hall 300

Sponsor(s): Boston College Physics Department

URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/gcook/

The information on this page is accurate as of February 2006

Assignments for 3-16-09

Please read Chapter 6 of Kraft-Furlong, the required text.

Please hand in your  2d, short, written assignment at the beginning of class.

Assignments for 3-09-09

Please read Chapter 5 of Kraft-Furlong, the required text.

If you have not yet done so, hand in your 1st, short, written assignment at class.  Partial credit is better than no credit at all.

Your 2d, short written assignment will be handed out and explained.  It would be a good idea to be present.

MIT– Stackable CityCars – The Boston Globe

Read short Boston Globe article on stackable CityCars from MIT.

See MIT video for detailed explanation of “shared use” concept of CityCars.

MIT CityCar

Assignments for 3-02-09

Please read Chapter 5 of Kraft-Furlong, the required text.

If you have not yet done so, hand in your 1st, short, written assignment at class.  Partial credit is better than no credit at all.

Please be sure that you have identified your paper topic and submitted it via e-mail to me by March 2nd, 2009.

Dunkirk Observer: Tuition hike protest planned

Dunkirk Observer: Tuition hike protest planned

The chant “1, 2, 3, 4 – We won’t pay you any more!” was heard loud and clear during a December 2008 protest on the Plattsburgh campus. Today on the SUNY Fredonia campus, you may hear something similar resonating from the Williams Center as hundreds of students are planning to protest Gov. David Paterson’s tuition tax proposal. “I’m delighted that the students are speaking out; they recognize that placing a tax on tuition is an inappropriate thing for the state to be doing,” SUNY Fredonia President Dennis Hefner said Wednesday. “For them to come together in this rally, I think, will send a clear message to Albany that this should stop and stop now.”

Recovery.gov

Home | Recovery.gov

Recovery.gov is a website that lets you figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going. There are going to be a few different ways to search for information. The money is being distributed by Federal agencies, and soon you’ll be able to see where it’s going — to which states, to which congressional districts, even to which Federal contractors. As soon as we are able to, they’ll display that information visually in maps, charts, and graphics.
Read the full text of the Bill:
The President recently signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. Read the full bill here.