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Nitro Cold Brew
"The cold brew — made by steeping coffee grinds in cold water for multiple hours — is dispensed from a stout tap, similar to what you’d find at your local bar." Link to audio clips produced at 890 Commonwealth Avenue Brookline featuring Matt Hartings, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the American University in Washington D.C.
Faculty & Student Standards Research Grants
The voluntary consensus standards system invests in its future participants. An update of our tabulation of funding opportunities.
Schenkingen
The world's most efficient business model: "Give me your money". Today at the usual hour we scan ad hoc guidelines, standards and regulations covering charitable giving and receiving (receiving, say, a herd of buffalo). We title these sessions with the Dutch mnemonic for the same which--phonetically--sounds like the English word "shakedown".
Crain Memorial Research Grant
Standards development is itself a field of scholarship. The organizations that write technical standards depend upon a continuous stream of new researchers, and many are willing to support that work financially. The GASB awards grants of up to $10,000 each for projects undertaken by graduate students that inform its standard-setting activities. The award honors Gilbert W. Crain, whose work helped establish governmental accounting as a rigorous academic discipline.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Endowment Standards
Marquee US universities like Stanford, Vanderbilt, Duke, Carnegie Mellon and others were built upon industrial fortunes. The pattern continues to this day because of the scale of recent personal private sector wealth and reduced government support. Today at the usual hour we update our past coverage with a question about how long the build-out of higher education settlements that depend F-1 income can continue.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Ryan Fieldhouse
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