It’s coming together. All text and data are in place - all that’s left is the editing and formatting on my first conference paper submission. Cutting down size is the prime challenge now, with the current length at 9.75 pages and a maximum length restriction of 8 pages (but we may be able to get [...]

Madison residents may be interested in this list of proposed projects to be funded by President-Elect Obama’s ‘Main-street Stimulus Package’.
http://www.usmayors.org/mainstreeteconomicrecovery/stimulussurveyparticipantsdata.asp?City=Madison&State=WI
Notable: $2 Million for “train stations to serve high-speed rail”.
I don’t know if this is part of the Midwest Rail System, which was supposed to offer transport between cities like Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Minneapolis, or [...]

I went through another semester’s teaching training today. One of the elective sessions I attended was called Culture Shock, and was related to the problems that international students have adjusting to live in the US. I felt interested in this session because a had been having talks with a colleague and a student who seemed [...]