The First Year Seminar

The First Russian Seminar on Science Communication

The standards of scholarly publications are evolving to meet the ever-growing demands of digital communications globally. Current authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers face numerous challenges, which can be overcome through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) aimed at advancing skills in research reporting and communicating with the global scientific community. The best scientific t...

Integration of Ethics across the Curriculum: From First Year through Senior Seminar†

The Fisher College of Science and Mathematics (FCSM) at Towson University (TU) has integrated authentic research experiences throughout the curriculum from first year STEM courses through advanced upper-level classes and independent research. Our observation is that training in both responsible conduct of research (RCR) and bioethics throughout the curriculum was an effective strategy to advanc...

Designing a First-Year Honors Seminar with A Whole New Mind

First seminar in Grenoble : a warm welcome

Starting from a denotational semantics of the eager untyped lambda-calculus with explicit runtime errors, the standard collecting semantics is defined as specifying the strongest program properties. By a first abstraction, a new sound type collecting semantics is derived in compositional fixpoint form. Then by successive (semi-dual) Galois connection based abstractions, type systems and/or type...

The First International Research Seminar on Ayurveda (2014), Birstein, Germany

A total of 150 delegates representing 19 countries attended the IRSA which was held on 14 and 15 of September 2014. A major outcome of IRSA 2014 has been the establishment of an IRSA Research Network of individuals and institutions across the globe to promote, initiate and coordinate research activities in line with the White Paper for Ayurveda Research, which is being finalized for publication...