MacArthur Foundation's Connie Yowell Speaks about Children

Florrie Fisher speaks about life on drugs

The controversial Giuffrida amendment that was attached to the Senate approved $35,000 allocation to the Student Union requiring the Academic Commis­ sion to seek Senate consent be­ fore inviting a speaker costing more than $300 was recon­ sidered at last night’s meeting. Another vote was taken and the amendment failed. Steve Novak, an off campus Senator who had originally voted no and then yes...

A consumer speaks to psychiatrists about advocacy.

A Researcher Speaks to Ombudsmen about Workplace Bullying

Workplace bullying is repeated and prolonged hostile mistreatment of one or more people at work. It has tremendous potential to escalate, drawing in others beyond the initial actor-target relationship. Its effects can be devastating and widespread individually, organizationally and beyond. It is fundamentally a systemic phenomenon grounded in the organization’s culture. In this article, I ident...

Formal Foundations for Reasoning about Evolution

Designing software systems is difficult. Designing systems that are capable of evolving is even more difficult. Often the system evolves in an unforeseen direction. Practice shows that software systems grow in small evolutionary steps. An evolution usually influences the behavior and the structure of the system. However, it is not desired that the evolution influences one or more modules of the...

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