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The Student Version of an English Breakfast
Early morning meal recipes from students of Europe's largest specialist university for art, design, fashion, communication, and performing arts.
College Bowl Games
College football bowl games originated in 1902 with the Rose Bowl (initially the Tournament East-West game) in Pasadena, California, as part of the Tournament of Roses Parade to boost tourism. Michigan dominated Stanford 49-0, but the lopsided score paused football until 1916, when it became annual—nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All."
Banished Words 2025 (And words that refuse to be banished)
"All language is an imperfect translation" - Franz Kafka
Wild Swimming
"In Michaelmas 2021, Jesus 2nd-year students Ellie Ford (Experimental Psychology) and Daniel Bazely (Physics), along with Somerville College 2nd-year Ruby Cooper, founded Oxford University Wild Swimmers to raise awareness of the mental health benefits of cold water swimming."
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Standards Curricula Program
Every year the National Institute of Standards and Technology issues grants to academic programs that introduce students to the necessary reciprocity of innovation and standardization in growing the U.S. economy. The University of Michigan is a past recipient of one such grant. We should see application specifics for the 2026 grant cycle fairly soon. We will post updates here.
2025-2026 Student Paper Competition
ANSI's Annual Student Paper Competition was paused last year; but now resumed with the topic ""Imagine a World Without Standards or Rules—What Would Happen?". Word limit ~2000. Receivable before June 5, 2026. Cash prizes are non-trivial and can involve a travel stipend attend ANSI's Annual Conference to receive the prize. Additional details -- including the papers to previous winning papers -- are linked herein.
Entertainment Occupancies
Education communities have the largest installed base of publicly-owned performance facilities. By getting you quickly to the transcripts of the most recent revision cycle of the dominant model building code suite in the United States you can sample the original inspiration for safety and sustainability concepts. Comments on the results of the Committee Action Hearings in October Cleveland will be received until January 5th.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).