I was aware that for some time there has been access to recordings of presidential meetings going back to the Kennedy Administration (and ea...

No post to speak of for today or tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm off to Bellevue to present at their Advanced Placement workshop on teaching hig...

Universities are embracing streaming video--for classes, for recruiting, for athletic events, all sorts of applications. Wave of the future ...

Back in April I blogged that Laurel Bandy '07 was a finalist for the Mountbatten Internship, "a carefully designed 12 month traini...

A piece in the New York Times on Salishan, a public housing complex in Tacoma recently torn down and rebuilt as a mixture of market priced ...

Ashley Mills '05, currently on Peace Corps in Thailand, started--then stopped--a blog on her life there. A tough assignment, what with ...

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A number of schools are balking at further participation in the US News and World Report college guides, arguing that it is not a valid surv...

Ruston Way. Bollards along the Dickman Mill site have a poem to describe the place. I like this old foundation of the sawdust burner becau...

This email and pictures came my way. As Torey mentions at the end of the email, we are working to institutionalize this internship so that w...

PG Alum Trevor Anthony '02 has a three part series on saving for the short, medium, and long term. Thoughtful, and worth reading here ,...

Over at Security Dilemmas , Professor Weinberger reflects on some of the issues raised during his recent academic visit to Israel. Interest...

If you've been following the adventures of Jen (Eidum) Zinchuk '03 on her blog--it's over there on the right--you'll know sh...

Professor Sousa emailed me this: http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/poster/ Very nice. A must have for our department hallway, and for that espe...

Today I attended a luncheon sponsored by the World Trade Center Tacoma . The event was WTC Association Day, and representatives from the va...

Finally, I made my way over to the university archives with recent alums Chris Pohlad (who is currently interning with admissions) and Ryan ...

Julia Becker '05, currently pursuing a MPA at Cornell's Institute of Public Affairs, is just starting an internship at the State Dep...

Students--and just about everyone else--find themselves scrounging for boxes when it's time to move. Here's a great new option: htt...

Andrea Tull 02 sent along this snippet from Comedy Central where our own local congressman (and her current employer), Adam Smith, is interv...

A piece in the Wall Street Journal on how some are using technology to start their own businesses overseas, thus avoiding the usual work vi...