NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2007-15

FRIDAY HUMOR

A treat for the end of your week ~ this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the editors of Motto magazine have come up with a list of “the 10 best college mottos” while casting critical aspersions towards the selection of Stanford’s “The wind of freedom blows” for being somewhat vulnerable to mockery. Following in the tradition of light night talk shows, the Chronicle then speculates on those that might not have “made the cut?” My personal favorites:

“Catering to ‘C’ students since 1987”
“Where the ill informed become somewhat-less-doltish”
“Now with fewer books!”

Check it out at:

“Dept. of Bad Ideas”
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i03/03a00701.htm

“The Top Ten College Mottos”
http://www.whatsyourmotto.com/Blogs/2007/08/08/college_mottos/
RESEARCH ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

If you haven’t seen it, you’ll want to check out “What Good Is Undergraduate Research, Anyway” in the 17 August Chronicle of Higher Education. Author Lila Guterman notes that “In the past few years, a small cadre of social scientists have, with grants from some of the largest supporters of undergraduate science research, begun systematically studying the effects on students. Three large studies verified some widely held notions about undergraduate research but challenged other assumptions.”
What Good Is Undergraduate Research, Anyway?
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i50/50a01201.htm

Research on Undergraduate Research
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i50/50a01401.htm
AROUND THE STATE

The 7 September Chronicle reports that a “major biotechnology center in a downtrodden North Carolina mill town (Kannapolis) will test supporters’ beliefs about economic renewal. Read all about it at:

Building a New Economy With Biotechnology
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i02/02a00101.htm?=attw