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Registration – Spring 2012

Registration for the Spring 2012 semester begins in a few weeks. This is an important step in your life as a college student, and taking control over the classes you take, their time and date, and the professors you’d like to have are all steps in this process.

October 11, 2011

Implications of Fast Neutrinos

In her Spotlight presentation Monday, September 26, Dr. Sutherlin referenced a discovery made by scientists in Italy that neutrinos (sub atomic particles that are found throughout the universe) fired at a receptor 500 miles away arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than light would have. Here is an excerpt of an article from Reuters News Service that…

September 27, 2011

Thinking critically about advertising

Monday in Cornerstone Kristina Campos shared a Chrysler advertisement that we unpacked together. She discussed the 2011 Super Bowl commercial and the set of cultural assumptions and implications that would have provided its original context. In her process, she walked through three key steps: Check Assumptions – what are the underlying assumptions or biases that…

September 8, 2011