February 9th, 2016

My Brothers

Involvement & How We Create Supportive Spaces

Student involvement allows students to engage with their peers & explore areas of interest. But as men of color, we may have to hold...

February 10th, 2016

"Seurat's Machine"

Marnin Young, Yeshiva University

Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday on the Grande Jatte" (1884) was first shown at the eighth Impressionist exhibition in 1886. It was...

February 11th, 2016

Mah-Jongg

Learn This Ancient Chinese Game

Mah-Jongg is a Chinese game resembling Gin Rummy, but played with colorful tiles instead of cards. It is easy to learn and it can become...

February 12th, 2016

Phondi

Explicit Articulatory Cues for Novel Category Formation: Emily Cibelli

Adult learners of a second language often have difficulty with novel phonological categories, showing a bias towards existing (L1) category...

SoConDi

Johannes Angermuller: The Many Voices of Political Discourse. The Perspective of Enunciative Pragmatics

This contribution presents enunciative pragmatics as a methodological orientation to account for how written texts are contextualized in the...

February 13th, 2016

Saturday Morning Physics

Gravitational Waves - Einstein's Audacious Prediction / Keith Riles, Professor of Physics (U - M)

A hundred years ago, Einstein realized that his General Theory of Relativity implies that gravity propagates like light. These gravitational...

February 14th, 2016

February 15th, 2016