ALWAYS ON
Avinu Malkeinu
Settlements that bring young men and women together repeatedly around a common purpose create possibilities for friendship, courtship and family formation that atomized digital life does not. Student choirs are among the oldest and most beautiful examples: people first learn to listen to one another.
ראש השנה
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown Friday, Sept. 15 through Sunday, Sept. 17 as the birthday of the universe, and the Jewish New Year. The holiday is celebrated with candle lighting in the evenings, festive meals with sweet delicacies during the night and day, prayer services that include the sounding of the ram’s horn on both mornings and desisting from creative work.
Spiritual But Not Religious
What happens when young people retain the desire for meaning, ritual and belonging -- to merge for family creation -- but lose the institutions that once brought them together?
History of Western Civilization Told Through the Acoustics of its Worship Spaces
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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.
Sacred Spaces
In many educational settlements, chapels and churches were built first -- even before libraries and classrooms -- a home for christenings, weddings, graduations and solemnization. Chapels remain a gathering place for communal reflection upon the meaning of our longing.
DNA Clues to Monarch Migration
D. André Green studies Monarch DNA to find clues to triggers that lead to the butterflies epic migrations.
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.
Overnight Guests
"A resident may have overnight guests, limited to one guest per resident at any one time with approval of all roommates/suitemates. Overnight guest privileges are limited to a maximum of three consecutive nights and a total of seven nights per resident per quarter. A guest is defined as any person who does not have a contract to live in a given space." -- University Residential Policies