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Bowling Green State University opens a new business facility designed for the ways students learn in the 21st century.
The brick Business Administration Building at Bowling Green State University in Ohio was built in 1972 to support the traditional style of faculty-centered teaching. As in other higher educational institutions of the 1970s, BGSU faculty used lectures to disseminate their materials, wrote on blackboards to highlight main points, and assessed student learning through rote memorization tests. Teachers imparted their expertise to students through a one-way flow of knowledge.
All that changed in the 21st century, when evidence-based research proved that a student-centered approach to education leads to deeper, more impactful learning. Organizations like AACSB recognized this trend by developing new standards that measure learning outcomes and effective teaching practices. To meet revised AACSB standards and upgrade their own teaching, BGSU’s Allen W.
FYI about GSI: The Recipe for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Success
New research highlights some of the ways planners can increase the social benefits and public acceptance of green stormwater infrastructure. Share
Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) has become an increasingly common way for cities to rely less on traditional gray infrastructure such as curbs, gutters, and drains to mitigate flooding and stormwater runoff. GSI is especially useful in legacy cities, usually older and often shrinking in population, with combined sewer systems (CSS) that manage both stormwater and sewage and are easily overburdened during heavy rainfall, forcing polluted waters to divert into nearby waterways.
February 23, 2021
February 23, 2021 | Shortly after his appointment as the CIO for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2003, Mike Tartakovsky renamed the NIAID Office of Technology and Information Systems. Rechristened the NIAID Office of Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), the name change reflects the realization that information technology has become a fundamental research tool for the biomedical research community. As he put it in a conversation with
Bio-IT World earlier this year: There are no non-computational disciplines left.
NIAID was doing its part to share that message by training collaborators and sponsored researchers in Africa, India, and around the globe in advanced bioinformatics. But, Tartakovsky remembered, the institute was missing the mark.
Understanding the Unthinkable
In the night of 14 April 1912, the unthinkable happened. The mightiest ship afloat, the brand new White Star Line ship
Titanic, was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. The ship was advertised as unsinkable. And, if unsinkable, why should there be adequate lifeboats for all of the passengers and crew? The ship departed from Southampton on 10 April. Less than five days later, it was at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. More than 1,500 people perished within three hours of striking an iceberg, which ripped the bottom out of the ship.
How this happened is a story told many times. Human hubris, unswerving trust in the infallibility of technology, and the commercial impetus of fast Atlantic passages all contributed to the loss of the ship and the accompanying loss of life. Even as the ship was settling in the waters of an icy North Atlantic, some survivors reported that there was a belief among many passengers that the ship was the