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Roast Beef Dinner
"Learn how to make a flavourful dish for less than £1.70" -- Becky Butler (University Residential Life"
Evensong “The Water is Wide”
"The Water Is Wide" is a traditional folk song with deep roots in the British Isles, particularly Scotland and England, before it became a beloved American folk song. Its origins are complex, as it evolved through oral tradition, with variations in lyrics, melody, and title across regions and centuries.
Abiit sed non oblitus | Concordia
The Board of Regent's acquisition of the 140-acre Geddes Road landmass of the former Concordia Lutheran University later this month will give the Ann Arbor campus a shoreline on a major Southeastern Michigan river system and --104 miles downstream the Huron River Water Trail -- direct access to Lake Erie.
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. 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 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
The Philanthropist’s Dilemma
American philanthropists who amassed fortunes through innovation, risk-taking, and market competition frequently channel hundreds of millions into university capital campaigns. They seek the immortality of a named building—a library, business school, or engineering center—yet confront an academy overwhelmingly skeptical of the capitalist system that enabled their success.
Innovation and Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence
In May of this year NIST renamed and expanded its former "AI Safety Institute Consortium" into the NIST "Artificial Intelligence Consortium". This shift moves the focus from primarily safety toward AI measurement, innovation, adoption, and U.S. competitiveness. NIST is actively seeking new members. Participation involves a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Letters of interest are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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.
Sport News
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." — Earl Warren (American jurist and Chief Justice, often misattributed but widely quoted in sports contexts)