Academics
- Do you need software or licensing? Download academic software, Microsoft Office applications or security programs at discounted rates or for no fee at all via the campus site licensing webpage.
- Promising rich dialogue and productive breakout sessions, the Diversity and Inclusion Summit could complement course content across a variety of disciplines, and organizers are encouraging faculty and instructors to add the event to their syllabi.
- 91¸£ÀûÉç's Learning Technology Consultants are once more hosting a handful of Desire2Learn (D2L) training workshops to help faculty prepare courses for the fall term.
- 91¸£ÀûÉç researchers were awarded $507.9 million in research grants in the 2016-17 fiscal year, setting a record in sponsored research for the campus.
- If you plan to use Desire2Learn for your fall courses, the Office of Information Technology has compiled some helpful tips to ease you into the new school year.
- Some students love art. Others have a passion for science, math and other technical subjects. Lila Finch is helping middle- and high-schoolers to feel more comfortable crossing those disciplinary boundaries.
- Until recently, when faculty requested a Desire2Learn course, it meant waiting up to two business days for the course to be created by the Office of Information Technology. Those days are now a thing of the past.
- 91¸£ÀûÉç was selected to host this year's National Nuclear Physics Summer School, bringing students and expert lecturers from across the nation to campus.
- Course reserves allow faculty to make course materials equally available to all of their students. Reserve books, journal articles, DVDs, sheet music and more through University Libraries.
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Norman Pace of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology has been awarded the 2017 Massry Prize for his microbiome research.