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'Clickers' let professors quiz big classes instantly

Handheld devices that resemble TV remotes are catching on in large University of Wisconsin-Madison lecture halls, a professor says. But that doesn't mean students are kicking back and watching Comedy Central the 'clickers,' which usually have about a dozen buttons, let them respond instantly to multiple-choice questions posed by their professor. The anonymity is an encouragement to some...

The Creative Class from my perspective

Rich Florida has taken a lot of crap from the academic community for the theory he vetted in his best-seller, The Rise of the Creative Class. To summarize, Dr. Florida says that a citys predisposition for Talent, Tolerance and Technology are indicators of economic boomtowns. Some of Richs indexes are controversial. For example, Rich shows that the higher a citys concentration of gays, t...

RNase Activity in Mouse Tissue: Classification, Hierarchy, and Methods for Control

RNase activity varies dramatically across different tissues. A comparison of total RNase activities for 8 different mouse tissues showed that total RNase activity spans a 181,000-fold range from pancreas to brain (Figure 1), which highlights the level of RNase control required for succ...

Screening and classifying hazardous waste samples

Timely and accurate analysis of hazardous materials is fundamental to environmental protection. In addition to the obvious necessity of identifying a suspected contaminant, a detailed analytical profile can help trace the source of a dangerous material and contribute to selecting the best containment and cleanup strategy. <P>A substantia...

World Class Life Science and Pharmaceutical Companies Leverage DoveBid s Global Reach for Asset Management and Disposition

), the global leader in capital asset auction and valuation services, announced today it will be conducting its 50th global Life Sciences / BioPharma Exchange auction online, on August 15, 2006. The event...

Early Stage, Step 8: Misclassifying workers brings risk

- Wisconsin's unemployment insura...

Healthcare software addresses "90 million" misclassified Americans

Then imagine employers basing their health plan buying decisions on the often inaccurate information contained in that tool. Employers don't have to imagine such a scenario because they have been living it, unbeknown to them, for yea...

Classroom projects translate into immediate workplace gains

In the final semester of his University of Wisconsin-Madison master's degree, Bob Aloisi didn't just earn a letter grade in his quality engineering class: He saved his company $50,000. It wasn't the typical classroom outcome, but then this classroom wasn't typical. As a student in "Quality Engineering and Quality Management," Aloisi accomplished a major class project in quality improveme...

Group promoting classified research elects officers

The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium held an organizational meeting last week to name its leadership. The group will try to bring classified research to Wisconsin institutions. Tom Hefty, former co-chairman of the Governor's Economic Growth Council, is president of the board of directors. He is now with law firm Reinhart, Boerner and Van Deuren. <a href="http://www.engr.wi...

Sonic Foundry discounts Mediasite for classrooms

The E-rate program is designed to provide discounts between 20 and 90 percent to schools and libraries for the...

Gaming technologies alter classroom, textbook models

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Graduating class includes biotech networkers; cell-phone recycling

Congratulations to this year's graduating class including 20 students in the Master of Science in Biotechnology program. They worked nights and weekends in this two-year professional program to build up diverse business skills. Also: need something to do with your old cell phone? Recycle it with the UW-Madison police department. <a href="/me...

Firstlogic a finalist in DM Reviews World Class Solution Awards

Source: Saab Cars USA 's 2004 World Class Solution Awards. The nominated solution is an imple...

Wisconsin Virtual School selects eClassroom to power its program

Tomahauk, Wis. The , the K-12 division of eCollege, to power its online program starting in August for the fall term. WVS, in its fifth year, is a statewide online program based in Tomahawk that serves students in ap...

The cultural impact of best practice and world class theories

When senior management use phrases like best practice or world class, Ive seen employees cringe! While this may be no more than an observation of a specific management team, Ive seen the same reaction in every organization where those topics come up. Unless you want to dismiss your entire staff as slackers, it makes sense to pay attention to this adverse reaction. Because each business is unique,...

Video-Games in the Classroom

MADISON - Tapping the potential of using video games in the classroom, in such varied fields as physics, Revolutionary War history and environmental engineering, is the aim of a new project being led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Education Arcade is an initiative that hopes to raise teacher awareness o...