Thomas Lee, graduate from Northwestern University, a student in one of my web design classes, ex-NUAMPS student employee, has been dedicated to becoming a top photo-journalist since leaving NU. This week, his work is featured on line and in the magazine with his photos about the tuna industry and the impending population crash and environmental disaster from eating and harvesting too many Bluefin Tuna. Congratulations to Thomas on the great feature on a very important topic.

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From Dries Buytaert:

Whitehouse.gov using Drupal

Big, exciting news! The flag ship website of the U.S. government, Whitehouse.gov, just relaunched on Drupal. This is a big day for Drupal, and for Open Source in government, and something all of us in the community should be very proud of.

The Dries Buytaert site make a pretty broad linkage to Drupal and the Obama administrations dedication to”open and transparent government”.

I guess I’d rather say they are using Drupal because they are really smart.

A tip of the hat to NUL’s Bill Parod for alerting us to this .

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One of the numerous web projects that NUAMPS has been working on has officially launched!

We’re Northwestern University’s newest online publication for research computing.  We’re here to bring you information and stories regarding the wide range of computational science activities that are underway at the University.

Check us out!   The quality of research done at Northwestern has been recognized around the world for many years running.  The degree to which Northwestern’s research advances often depend upon innovative computational practices…well, that has often been overlooked.   Not anymore.

Check out the site here, and if you have a NetId at Northwestern, login and post in the forums.

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This short clip, edited and shot by the NUAMPS video team can currently be seen on the main University web page, with other video, audio and written articles about the great series of events staged for Mortie Schapiro’s inauguration as the incoming 16th president of Northwestern.

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As part of the inauguration festivities, today, tomorrow and Friday, the New NU president Morton Schapiro is on live video chat with the NU student community.

http://www.hersongroup.com/nw/live.cfm

NUIT is supporting the infrastructure for the getting this presentation to the network, but it is designed and implemented by the Herson Group event planners.

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A friend of mine and fellow web developer informed me that today is nation Comic Sans Day, so in that spirit I have embraced the day and put my loathing of the font aside…

Read about it on John Wilker’s blog.

Oh, and if you want to learn about the origin of the world’s most hated typeface, read up on it here.

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Just a reminder that the NUAMPS production, “Making the Waa Mu Show 2009,” will be premiering soon on the Big Ten Network! Making the Waa Mu Show 2009 follows co-chairs Julie Beck, Kaitlin Fine, Cara Rifkin, Eugenio Vargas, and Director Dominic Missimi through the process of how one of the most celebrated and well respected college productions is transformed from an idea to the stage.

The schedule for all upcoming NUAMPS programming on the Big 10 Network is below.

September 30, 2009
9:30 am – Concerto for Piano, D Major – Maurice Ravel
3:00 pm – Waa-Mu 2009 (Performance)
3:00 am – Handel’s Joshua

October 14, 2009
9:00 am – Making the Waa Mu Show 2009 ***Premiere
3:00 pm – Making the Waa Mu Show 2009
3:00 am – Making the Waa Mu Show 2009

October 16, 2009
9:00 am – Waa Mu 2009 (Performance)
3:00 pm – Waa Mu 2009 (Performance)
3:00 am – Waa Mu 2009 (Performance)

October 28, 2009
9:00 am – Off the Chart, Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra
3:00 pm – Off the Chart, Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra
3:00 am – Off the Chart, Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra

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Harlan and I have returned to Dunhuang to follow-up with the Dunhuang Academy team on the implementation of techniques presented at our digitization training here last June.  Arriving without much in the way of progress updates from the DA team, we were very pleasantly surprised to see that they have been hard at work during the last three months, shooting caves, stitching a large volume of files, and managing data.  The work they are doing is markedly improved when compared to what we viewed on the planning trip 14 months ago.  They are truly becoming a world-class production studio, and we are very pleased to have had the opportunity to teach and work with them on this project.  There is one additional follow-up trip planned for this grant in the spring.  Harlan and I look forward to seeing even greater progress in both production work and international communications over the next six months.

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The third annual meeting of the Oncofertility Consortium will be held next week, September 13-15, in Chicago, Illinois. Over 150 participants from the U.S. and abroad will discuss the latest breakthroughs in the science and clinical applications of fertility preservation methods for cancer patients. More information on the event, including a meeting agenda, can be found here.

NUAMPS is doing a three camera shoot as well as broadcasting the conference using Adobe Connect. Mark Skala is directing and Mike Curtis is providing support for Adobe Connect as well as coordinating the presentations.

Tune into the conference using Adobe Connect here: http://nwuniversity.na3.acrobat.com/oncofertility/

For more information about the Oncofertility Consortium check out: http://oncofertility.northwestern.edu or http://blog.oncofertility.northwestern.edu

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