Wednesday, October 21. 2009

Education Tidbits

Central Piedmont Community College (NC) and its geomatics program is part of this week's Advanced Technological Education Television (ATETV) episode. ATETV is "a Web-based video series and interactive network designed to connect students and professionals with careers in advanced technology. An Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Project funded in part by the National Science Foundation, ATETV aims to show how ATE is relevant to the modern workplace and to attract students to this growing field."



- via @BKeenan

The College of William and Mary's Associate Professor of sociology Salvatore Saporito received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a database of school attendance boundaries for the country’s largest school districts. He and his students will work for two years to collect data from 800 school districts, about half of the districts in the U.S. It's not clear how the data will be disseminated.

- Flat Hat News (and I heard it on Very Spatial, too)


Wheeler Ruml, assistant professor of computer science at the University of New Hampshire is member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) prestigious Computer Science Study Panel. The yearlong program sends 12 junior faculty from around the country to visit the CIA, the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) among other military sites. Ruml's research's shortest path algorithms. The program aims to point researchers in the directions the military may need and for Ruml included a grant of $99,220 and possible future grants.

- Fosters

Consider the Community Planning Fellowship Program in New York City. It's mostly funded by the non-profit Fund for the City of New York. Each fellow receives a $5,000 stipend and is expected to work 15 hours on a community project.

Grad student Preeti Sodhi was one of a dozen graduate students who was part of it last year. Each fellow is assigned to a community board in Manhattan; Sodhi worked on several projects with Community Board 3 on the Lower East Side.

She mapped liquor stores and her board's district manager says she used it during her testimony on a liquor license application.

- NY1

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Education at 06:36 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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An impressive video.

The correlation between what happens in a community college to what students are going to use "on the job" is amazing. Community Colleges do not have the "academic interference" of Universities that comes from archaic professors who are disconnected to the practical applications, and I've really grown to respect CC's for this aspect.

#1 Tony Hollowell (Link) on 2009-10-21 21:45 (Reply)

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