Professor John Collura of Civil and Environmental Engineering was an invited panelist at the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) World Congress, held Oct. 22-25 in Vienna, Austria.
The international panel, which included transportation researchers and educators from Europe and the Asia Pacific regions, discussed the challenges and issues facing the transportation profession around the world in educating and training its workforce to meet the needs of the 21st century.
It may seem like common sense that the quality of online video streaming affects how willing viewers are to watch videos at a website. But until Computer Science researcher Ramesh Sitaraman and collaborators at Akamai developed a way to rigorously study the question, no one had been able to scientifically test the assumption.
Professor Jane Fountain, Political Science and Public Policy, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, which was chartered by Congress in 1967 as an independent body to help government leaders build more effective, efficient, accountable and transparent public sector organizations. Her induction is scheduled for Nov. 15 during the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
This year's Classical Legacy Lecture at the Renaissance Center will be given by writer Alison Brown, author of "The Renaissance, The Medici in Florence: The Exercise of Language and Power, and The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence," on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 4 p.m.
Brian Walsh of Yale University's English department will give a lecture, “Local Reformations and London City Comedy: Middleton’s The Puritan Widow," on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 4:30 p.m. n the Renaissance Center's Reading Room.
Recently a research team led by Wei-lih Lee, associate professor of Biology, identified a new molecular player in asymmetric cell division, a regulatory protein named She1 whose role in chromosome- and spindle positioning wasn’t known before. Asymmetric cell division is important in the self-renewal of stem cells and because it ensures that daughter cells have different fates and functions.
David Katz will discuss one of the Renaissance Center's hidden treasures in a lecture, "The Countess of Pembroke's Hybrid: A presentation on the publication history of Sidney's New Arcadia" on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. in the center's Reading Room.
A Renaissance Games Night is being held Friday, Nov. 16 from 7-9 p.m. in the Renaissance Center's Reading Room at 650 East Pleasant St.
Kidd Pivot, based in Vancouver, B.C. and under the direction of Crystal Pite, will perform “The Tempest Replica” on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.