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Easy Greek Salad
Molly Poffenbarger, health educator with the WVU Extension Service Family Nutrition Program, shows how it is done.
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.
Colloquy (June)
Open agenda; Not Too Organized. Whatever anyone wants to talk about. We do this once every month. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Summer Hours at our Eisenhower Parkway Office: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Join us for lunch 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM every Third Wednesday of the month at the University of Michigan Golf Course Restaurant.
Standards June
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
2025-2026 Student Paper Competition
ANSI's Annual Student Paper Competition with the topic ""Imagine a World Without Standards or Rules—What Would Happen?" closed on June 5th. The winning papers will be announced sometime in August. We will cover them here. Also linked here: catalog of past winning papers,
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.
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.