PHOTO NIGHTS FOR CHARITY FEATURES WHNPA PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR http://photonightsforcharity.wordpress.com/ Speaker: Jahi Chikwendiu, The Washington Post When: 7:30PM start with drinks and socializing, 8:15 begin speaking Where: Love Life Images Studio, 8600 Foundry St. Suite 217C Savage, MD (20 mins outside of DC, on Rt. 95) Charity: Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (ASTT), Healing Images With a donation

On Wednesday July 2nd, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Dr. Gina Lambright (you might also know her as Chip Somodevilla’s wife and Eloisa’s mom) and I will be giving a lecture with a slide show on the importance of nonprofits in Uganda at the Sewall Belmont House & Museum at 7:00 p.m. The

You know things are going nuts when a country whose majority is NOT overweight is run amok with “fat watchers” and they make NO attempt to disguise it as anything other than what it is: GOVERNMENT BULLYING!!! I found this little gem over at the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF): Federal Limits On Pants Sizes? Over the

After the (very mild and minor) fuss about me using a laptop at last week’s Making Connections, I said we have a mountain to climb in embedding technological change across the university.  It’s reassuring in some ways to see that our mountain is not, perhaps, quite as huge and daunting as some other people’s.  The

Today’s sermon was given at the American Muslim Center in Dearborn, MI.  Second portion of the sermon discusses speaking out against Islamophobia and the recent hijab situation in Detroit at the Obama rally. http://share.ovi.com/media/DawudWalid.public/DawudWalid.10102

Many of you know that my number one academic interest is wisdom literature.  However, I have not posted anything of consequence on said topic.  So I plan to post various book reviews that deal with the wisdom literature as I finish reading them.  Recently I finished:  Ronald E. Clements, Wisdom in Theology.  The Didsbury Lectures. 

Via DataWrangling, Here is one of my best finds since i took to blogging. While browsing i came across this post that makes up a comprehensive list of publicly available video lectures on various topics on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Neuro-Science etc. Peter Skomoroch almost writes my story at the start of the post i made a

Going by my convention of posting, this may be considered as an annexe to the previous post. I have been thinking of writing about the open course ware given by the IITs as part of a program that had been conceived quite a few years ago, probably inspired by the MIT OCW. However i have

___ Raandesk Gallery of Art presents: “Feminine Continuity- Collage Paintings by Carla E. Reyes,” was on view from February 8 through April 18, 2008 at In Good Company, 16 West 23rd Street, 4th floor, viewing hours: Monday through Friday, 9am- 8pm, and by appointment. ___ Thanks to those who joined the artist for an afternoon viewing and

First year students in computer science at UoM, will see some new changes in the programming modules. A better programming language will be used, so that it is easier to learn the programming paradigms. One of the programming language ‘en vogue’ is PYTHON. So, let’s dive into python now… I am sure students will find