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Did you ever go on a fun one-day car outing together with senior researchers, students and postdocs all working in your area of research? Scientists working in the tri-state area (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana) will be embarking on one such outing this Spring to participate in CinciNNI. They will be taking a few hour ride to drive to Cincinnati from several different universities in the area. Prof. Carlos Bolech and I co-founded CinciNNI: tri-state quantum condensed matter theory forum in 2010 to form a community of researchers in the states of Oh, KY and IN. It creates a larger supportive network also for students and postdocs. For every CinciNNI gathering we have a theme in which we dive deep into. CinciNNI stands for Cincinnati Near Neighbor Interactions. The inspiration for the name also comes from 1. cincinnus [plural cincinni]  which is a type of inflorescence (that also inspired the logo for CinciNNI) 2. Cincinnatus, a Roman leader (~500 BCE) who became a legendary figure of Roman virtue because he relinquished power after a needed military intervention and went back to being a farmer. The universities that participate in CinciNNI are University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, Ohio University, University of Kentucky, Indiana University IndianapolisI, Indiana University Bloomington, Purdue University. We are hoping that Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University and some other universities will join too! Please connect with me if you are a researcher working in Quantum Condensed Matter Theory and are able to drive for the gathering. Stay tuned to learn about the theme and speakers for the upcoming CinciNNI. 👉 Do you have a similar forum where you live? If not, consider making one! #science #research #postdoc #student #community

I'm loathe to criticize the University of Michigan as I love the university to an unhealthy degree, and I'm still reveling in the football national championship and 3x wins over Ohio. My experiences there shaped me more than anything outside of my family. So it absolutely pains me to critique the new Vision 2034 as a giant pile of focus grouped garbage that says nothing and means nothing. https://lnkd.in/g79MMqAi "Our vision is to be the defining public university, boldly exemplified by our innovation and service to the common good. We will leverage our interdisciplinarity and excellence at scale to educate learners, advance society, and make groundbreaking discoveries to impact the greatest challenges facing humanity." First off, this could be any public (why does it say public anyway, I want to crush Stanford, Notre Dame, and Princeton too) university anywhere in the world. And you know what I'm gonna stop there. There's no point in parsing this ephemeral banality pretending to be a vision. It's forgotten immediately after reading and cannot serve as a North Star since there is no there there. Simply put, a vision cannot and should not be predicated on the viewpoint of others. Nothing groundbreaking, bold, or innovative can ever come from this. DON'T LET OTHERS DEFINE YOU OR YOU END UP AS THE AVERAGE OF THOSE OTHERS. Michigan is not, nor ever has been average. This vision statement, however, falls far short of even reaching average and isn't remotely close to what we should expect from the leaders and best.

Wrapping up the first semester of the doctoral program at the Department of Educational Administration & Foundations - Illinois State University with this quote, “The United States is experiencing profound, unrelenting, and accelerating demographic, economic, and technological change. The country is undergoing a transformation from an industrial to a knowledge economy. New digital technologies have emerged with the power to recast our lives and the world around us.” - Levine and Van Pelt, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future Thanks for all the great work and instruction from my peers and professors Perry Schoon, James Applegate, and Diane R. Dean.

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Check out this awesome project led by Barbara Schneider from Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education at College of Education at Michigan State University

Listening to Pabrai over the years has been a great business education.

We are excited about the new PhD in Business! I will be working on an advanced qualitative research course to be launched next March. One of the things brought home by IILC's keynote, Bob Marks, is that AI cannot ever have true "qualia", or subjective perceptions through the senses. Phenomenology explores the essence of these experiences. I believe qualitative research is that much more important in the age of AI.

Matthew Krivitskiy, University of Maryland Information Science student at USG, appreciates USG’s small class sizes because they allow him to “collaborate closely with dedicated faculty and teaching assistants.” Read more about his journey at bit.ly/Matthew-Krivitskiy.

Our Associate Professor Rino will have a seminar at #Berkeley to show the latest findings of our #Digital #BuiltEnvironment team using #VR #AR #BIM and much more

Did you know that based on the most recent internal review, all our Embry-Riddle Worldwide College of Arts & Sciences nationally and globally distributed online degree programs are now STEM-designated? This underpins our endeavor to serve the core constituency of Embry-Riddle as an Aeronautical University as well as a broader community of learners and advancing leaders in/aspiring to High-Reliability Organizations and low-failure-tolerance public and private sectors. Therefore, for example, our social science and humanities programs are also STEM-designated based on all their curriculum has to offer. // Why not study with the trailblazers? -- https://lnkd.in/gNcjrBW3