Events Tagged 'Education'
posted by jeffers () at October 17th, 2011
Hello All,
Please join us for our next off campus national speakers
Who: Joe Slade White & Valerie Biden Owens
What: Selling the Candidates: National Agenda 2011 Girding for Battle @UD
When: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 4:30pm slt
Where: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
White is a national media strategist and producer, a thirty-seven-year veteran of over four hundred political campaigns across the nation, with a winning record of over 75%. Clients have included Presidential candidates, U.S. Senators, Governors, Members of Congress, and Mayors.
Biden Owens, is among the first ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at September 29th, 2011
Hello Everyone,
We have 2 events this week on Wednesday, October 5, 2011.
In addition to our regular National Agenda series at 4:30 pm slt, we'll also simulcast the University of Delaware Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 2011 Distinguished Lecturer Series speaker at 1:00 pm slt.
More info on the guest and topics below. Join us if you can!
1. Inquiry-Driven Engineering: One of the Liberal Arts
Lecture present by James Wagner of Emory University
October 5, 2011 @ 1:00 pm slt/4:00 pm et
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
James W. Wagner, president of ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at September 26th, 2011
Hello Everyone,
Please join us for our next off campus speakers in this week's National Agenda 2011, Girding for Battle @UD
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 4:30 pm slt
Chris Lehane & Steven Schmidt: Handicapping the Race
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
Lehane & Schmidt are national political strategists. Lehane is a political consultant and crisis communications expert who has served as a lawyer, spokesperson and expert in opposition research for the Clinton White House. Schmidt is one of the top public affairs and political strategists in the country & was ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at September 19th, 2011
Hello All,
Our next speaker in the National Agenda 2011 series is:
Prof. Phillip Jones: UD Faculty, Political Science & International Relations
Please join us if you can on: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 4:30pm slt
His topic is: Will Congress Be Held Accountable?
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
His teaching and research interests center on issues of representation and democracy in America. In particular, I study public opinion, voting behavior, mass political participation, and their effects on government ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at September 13th, 2011
Hello Everyone,
Please join us on the UD islands for this special event
National Agenda @UD Special Event: Constitution Day
Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States & University of Delaware alumnus.
Friday, September 16, 2011, @ 1:00 pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UD%20Imagination/50/43/26
The Vice President will deliver the inaugural James. R. Soles Lecture on the Constitution and Citizenship and the we will celebrate the gift of Mr. Biden’s three decades of U.S. Senate papers to the University of Delaware library.
The lecture will be sponsored annually by ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at September 12th, 2011
Candy Crowley, CNN: National Agenda 2011 Girding for Battle @UD
Broke... and Broken? Assessing the US Political Scene
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 4:30 pm slt
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
Please join us for our first off campus speaker for this year's National Agenda, Candy Crowley of CNN.
Crowley is among the most honored and respected political journalists in the United States. She is CNN's award-winning chief political correspondent & anchor of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, a political hour of newsmaker interviews and analysis of ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at May 16th, 2011
Come out to University Delaware Island on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 P.M. and listen to a brief presentation by Communication majors Droogan Quartz and Ewing1233.
Their topic is on the importance of foreign journalism during elections and learning about the tactics regimes use to stay in power.
The demonstration will be promptly followed by a discussion that shows the way YOU can be proactive and keep open the doors of democracy!
This event is about an hour long.
IM Firery Broome for help getting ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at May 2nd, 2011
First
Who: University of Delaware Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Presents
What: Professor Richard Baraniuk of Rice University: Compressive Sensing
When: Wed. May 4, 2011 @ 12:00 pm SLT
Where: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/151/26
Professor Baraniuk will overview some of our recent progress on compressive sensing, a new approach to data acquisition in which analog signals are digitized not via uniform sampling but via measurements using more general, even random, test functions. In stark contrast with conventional wisdom, the new theory asserts that ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at April 19th, 2011
Please join us for our next Global Agenda live simulcast Speaker
Marwan Muasher - Apr 20, 2011 4:30pm slt
His topic is: View from the Arab World
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/152/27
MARWAN MUASHER is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment.
In 1995, Muasher opened Jordan’s first embassy in Israel, and in 1996 became minister of information and the government spokesperson. From 1997 to 2002, he served as Jordan's ambassador to Washington, negotiating the first free trade agreement between the United States and an Arab nation. ... more » »
posted by jeffers () at April 6th, 2011
Join us for the live simulcast talk of Noble Peace Prize recipient Rajendrea K. Pachauri.
When: Wed. April 6, 2011 @ 4:30 PT
Where: UD islands in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/151/26
RAJENDRA K. PACHAURI accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007, along with former Vice President Al Gore. He is director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India., and Chair of the IPCC. He will focus on how the cumulative effects of ... more » »
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