[BB] @ The U

You may have noticed the new "@ The U" feature on the Blackboard Home page. I hope you are OK with it. The goal is to help our students, particularly undergraduates from across the various schools and colleges, be aware of the breadth of opportunities to hear great speakers at UM. Hopefully the students will attend some of these lectures or presentations. Either way they will be able to feel good about UM as a center for learning.

For example, I attended the talk today on "Innovation for the 21st Century." It was both educational and inspiring. I wish more people would have been there, beyond the engineering faculty and students. Hopefully that will happen over time.

I am using Google Calendar to manage these items. You can see all the items on the calendar by going to the "News" tab in Blackboard and choosing the "@ The U" sub-tab. If you have events that you think would be appropriate, please let me know.

Guidelines:

* Should be an academic event, such as a lecture or presentation
* Should feature a person of importance (someone who has won awards of some kind or is at least slightly famous)
* Should be at a level that everyone can attend, from first year students on up
* Should be free (at least for students)
* Should be on the UM campus
* Should have a web page with more information about the event

Information Required

* Date of event
* Time
* Location
* Name of speaker
* Title of speech
* Web page for more information

Bill Vilberg