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Trumix.com listings available of DIGERATI UNIVERSITY Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Tracy Kidder, Feb. 9, 2007 Tracy Kidder is well known for his powerful and inspiring book Mountains Beyond Mountains. In this book he tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a single-minded physician bent on improving the health of some of the poorest people on the planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill '74, Feb. 16, 2007 Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill '74 head of the U.S. delegation to the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, spoke at Common Hour Friday, February 16, 2007. Hill discussed recent developments in the talks during his presentation entitled "A Report from the Denuclearization Talks in Beijing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evan Wolfson, Nov. 3, 2006 Evan Wolfson is the Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Mr. Wolfson worked for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York City, where he represented several gay marriage cases in front of the Supreme Court. In 2000, Wolfson was honored by the National Law Journal as one of "100 most influential attorneys in America." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuba's Favorite National Pastimes: Baseball and Politics Was a young Fidel Castro scouted by a major leage baseball team? Find out as Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History, regales an audience of Bowdoin Trustees with an animated tale of baseball's intriguing, politically charged history in Cuba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psychologist Probes the Origins of Temperament Assistant Professor of Psychology Samuel Putnam is in the forefront of new research on toddler temperament. He discusses Bowdoin's Toddler Temperament Laboratory and new insights his work is shedding on personality development and parenting styles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Franco American Symposium - Nov. 15 Bowdoin College honored its own French roots with the three-day symposium Celebrating the Franco-American Heritage of Maine co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Multicultural Affairs Program and the departments of Government and Romance Languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Franco American Symposium - Nov. 14 Bowdoin College honored its own French roots with the three-day symposium Celebrating the Franco-American Heritage of Maine co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Multicultural Affairs Program and the departments of Government and Romance Languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Franco American Symposium - Nov. 13 Bowdoin College honored its own French roots with the three-day symposium Celebrating the Franco-American Heritage of Maine co-sponsored by the Bowdoin College Multicultural Affairs Program and the departments of Government and Romance Languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President Barry Mills Introduces the Bowdoin Campaign Bowdoin College President Barry Mills '72 speaks about the goals of the Bowdoin Campaign. He discusses how these priorities reflect the most important aspects of the College and its mission: Financial Aid, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Annual Giving, and Building projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reunion Lectures 2006: Church&State During Reunion Weekend 2006 Paul Franco, professor of government, discussed the relationship between religion and politics, and examined the implications and complications of the separation of church and state in the context of recent Supreme Court cases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reunion Lectures 2006: Media&Society How does the media influence our reactions to events at home and abroad? During Reunion Weekend 2006 Lawrence B. Lindsey '76, president and CEO of The Lindsey Group, and Jane R. Seagrave '76, vice president for new media at the Associated Press, examined this question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Paul Franco, Sep. 8, 2006 Mr. Franco is a Professor of Government with teaching responsibilities in the history of political philosophy and contemporary political theory. Mr. Franco is the author of The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom, and most recently Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College 205th Convocation Bowdoin College's 2006 Convocation ceremony, marking the official opening of the 205th academic year. Bowdoin College's President Barry Mills welcomes Bowdoin Students and their families followed by the Convocation address delivered by Cristle Collins Judd, Bowdoin College's Dean for Academic Affairs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President's Welcome to Parents Bowdoin College President Barry Mills and Cristle Collins Judd, Bowdoin College's Dean for Academic Affairs, welcome familes and guests of first year students at Bowdoin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Franklin Burroughs, “Compression Wood" In a 2001 recording at Bowdoin College, Burroughs reads the full text of his award-winning essay "Compression Wood," originally published in The American Scholar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unlocking the Secrets of Lobsters Neuroscience Chair Patsy Dickinson studies the physiology of neurons in lobsters, specifically, those involved in its stomatagastric system. It is a relatively simple nervous system that is helping scientists understand more about motor patterns in humans, such as respiration and locomotion. She discusses recent breakthroughs and discoverie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Excerpts of the 2006 Commencement at Bowdoin College Excerpts of the 201st Commencement beginning with an address by President Barry Mills and featuring student speakers David Duhalde-Wine '06, Alexandra Yanikoski '06, and Senior Class President Harry Jones '06. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Careers in Advertising Jason Moyer '97, Vice President and Account Director at Young & Rubicam, and Stella Grizont, Brand Planner at Young & Rubicam, discuss how to get into the career of advertising. Young & Rubicam is one of the world's leading marketing communications companies with a global network of 163 agencies in 81 countries around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China Lecture Series: "China's Real Energy Crisis" Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edward S. Steinfeld specializes in the political economy of reform in socialist and post-socialist systems. His book, Forging Reform in China (Cambridge University Press, 1998), explores the process of state enterprise restructuring in China and attempts to illuminate the institutional drivers of economic behavior in the Chinese system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin College Baccalaureate Ceremony '06 The Baccalaureate ceremony marks the official close of the academic year and the coming together of graduates and their families. The ceremony includes music, Readings from Bowdoin's past by Dean Craig Bradley, speeches by President Barry Mills, Ely Delman '06 and honorary degree recipient, Beverly Daniel Tatum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China Lecture Series: "The Story of Hong Kong and Shenzhen in Multiple Dimensions" Peter Yum Tak-Shing is the Dean of Engineering and Professor of Information Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joins the lecture series as the 2005-2006 Hong Kong Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, which is sponsored by the Hong Kong Government Information Services Department and the U.S. Department of State. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China Lecture Series: "Elections and Chinese Understanding of Democracy" Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University, Tianjian Shi specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on political culture and political participation in Chinese politics. He is the author of Political Participation in Beijing (Harvard University Press, 1997). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helping to Spread Prosperity to the "Other Maines" David Vail, Bowdoin’s Adams-Catlin Professor of Economics. Discusses past efforts – and promising new ones – to stimulate rural economic development in Maine’s “rim counties,” which face chronic economic and social distress. He is joined by Lauren Withey ’06, who discusses her field research in Maine’s Katahdin region, which has been affected by the declining paper industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website College Life Outside the Classroom A discussion about dorm rooms, roommates, social life, and how to make college life outside the classroom a rewarding experience. Participants include Bowdoin's Director of Residential Life Kim Pacelli, and Bowdoin students Kristen Van Der Veen '07 and Sam Kamin '08. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Pearl, Nov. 19, 2004 Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. His first novel, The Dante Club, a New York Times bestseller, is being translated into over a dozen languages around the world. He wrote the first draft while attending Yale Law School, where he received his J.D. in 2000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sonata in Bb, K.454 Mary Hunter, violin & James Parakilas, piano perform Mozart's Sonata in Bb, K.454 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Charles Johnson, Feb. 10, 2006 National Book Award winner Charles Johnson is a storyteller who ingeniously braids history, philosophy, and imagination in making post-modern fiction. A philosopher, literary critic, cartoonist, essayist, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, his books include "Middle Passage", "Dreamer" and "Dr. King’s Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin's Composer of Note Nationally recognized composer Vineet Shende, Bowdoin assistant professor of music, talks about what inspires him to write, the state of classical music today, and his recent works – including a film score, an opera, and the highly rhythmic romp, “Throw Down or Shut Up.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Upward Bound at Bowdoin Bridget Mullen, director of Upward Bound at Bowdoin College, talks with Scott Hood about the challenges of raising college aspirations among low-income high school students, preparing these students for success in college, and the specter of federal budget cuts that could eliminate Upward Bound programs nationwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Service Learning at Bowdoin Bowdoin students Eliza Hutchinson '06 and Colin Beckman '07 join Susie Dorn, the Director of Bowdoin's Community Resource Center, for a conversation about making a difference in the community, alternative spring breaks, and balancing a heavy academic load at Bowdoin with a call to serve the common good. The program host is Scott Hood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doris Kearns Goodwin, Nov. 2, 2001 Former Harvard professor and White House fellow under Lyndon Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of bestsellers The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. Her articles on political issues have appeared in leading national publications, and she is a regular panelist for “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” In 1995, she received a Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Goodwin has r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Hour: Robert Reich 10/25/02 Robert B. Reich is university professor and the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University and its Heller Graduate School. Before joining the Brandeis faculty, Reich served as the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor during President Bill Clinton’s first term. Prior to joining Clinton’s cabinet, Reich was on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and served as an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Ford Admin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Approach to Acting Visiting artist J.Ed. Araiza, from the internationally acclaimed SITI Theater Company, teams up with Bowdoin student Theo Salter '07, to discuss a new approach to acting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovering the Mandaens Associate Professor Jorrun Buckley, the world's leading scholar on the Mandaens - an endangered Middle Eastern religious sect - talks about how she became involved in human rights work on their behalf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NCAA Women's Basketball (Bowdoin vs. Brandeis) The Bowdoin College women's basketball advanced to their sixth-straight "Sweet Sixteen" with a hard-fought 59-56 victory over Brandeis University in an NCAA Second-Round contest at Morrell Gymnasium. The Polar Bears (25-2) set the New England basketball record with their 70th straight victory at home, breaking the mark formerly held by the University of Connecticut women's team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NCAA Women's Basketball (Bowdoin vs. Colby-Sawyer) The Bowdoin College women's basketball defeats Colby-Sawyer in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament 73-54. With the win, the Polar Bears tie the New England basketball record with their 69th straight home victory - a mark set by the University of Connecticut women's team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bowdoin Cable Network: BCNews Featured Stories: Recyclemania Progress Winter Carnival President’s Day Salmon Rushdie Update Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Aid Myths Scott Hood, Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Bowdoin College, speaks with Steve Joyce, Director of Student Aid at Bowdoin College, and Gary Weaver, Associate Director of Student Aid and Certified Financial Planner at Bowdoin College about some of the myths surrounding college affordability and financial aid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Sense of Financial Aid Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digerati University: Special Edition CLICK TO LISTEN TO DIGERATI UNIVERSITY SPECIAL EDITION or LISTEN IN iTUNES ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW: Bill Klingensmith, Assistant Professor at the School of Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, takes us on a digital image journey crossing the country on the Drive Project: A digital documentation of driving six days from Seattle, Washington to Rochester, New [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Introduction An introduction to Bowdoin College's Peary-MacMillan Arctic museum. Discussions with Susan A. Kaplan, Director, Genevieve LeMoine, Curator/Registrar and Emma Bonanomi, Curatorial Assistant for Exhibitions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Audio Guide Project Discussion Bowdoin College's Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum has developed an iPod based audio tour that is also available as a free podcast allowing users to download the tour that displays images of exhibits and archived materials to enhance their experience of the museum. This podcast is a discussion about the project with Emma Bonanomi, Curatorial Assistant for Exhibitions, Genevieve LeMoine, Curator/Registrar and Susan Kaplan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of The Peary-MacMillan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Audio Guide: This Extraordinary Paradise Take a virtual tour of the gallery from home or download the tour and visit us on the Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick, Maine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Educating Women in Rural China A specialist and activist in the field of gender, Wu Qing has been the leading figure and voice for the interests and education of women in rural China. With her sincere concern for the educational and economic problems rural women are facing and her determined mission to change their situation, Wu Qing has been working on the frontlines of gender realities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digerati University #12 CLICK TO LISTEN TO DIGERATI UNIVERSITY #12 or LISTEN IN iTUNES ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW: House keeping, what’s coming from Apple, monkey heads, upcoming interviews, photo-blogs and what to look for in a web designer. SHOW NOTES: “Alive” Chimpanzee Head (Sharper Image), Bowdoin College Podcasts, New England Indies, MEMAP.ORG Forums, Wi-Fi iPod article on the Register (Wi-Fi Ipod over 2 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese Scrolls Project Bowdoin College's Asian Studies department worked with Information Technology to build an innovative online scroll viewer to showcase the scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan. This podcasts explores the development of this project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese Gardens Project Bowdoin College's Information Technology worked with Professor of Art History Emeritus Clif Olds to develop a website dedicated to the gardens of Japan, and more specifically to the historic gardens of Kyoto and its environs. The site is designed to provide the visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it, to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn something of its history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digerati University #11 CLICK TO LISTEN TO DIGERATI UNIVERSITY #11 or LISTEN IN iTUNES ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW: A special thanks to Mario Vercellotti of Vermario.com for modifying his new WordPress theme ‘Cloudy’ just for MEMAP.ORG’s blog and Matt LeClair talks with game designer Dan Brakeley of Sucker Punch Productions. SHOW NOTES: Dan Brakely is a 25 year old Seattle-based rigger for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digerati University #10 CLICK TO LISTEN TO DIGERATI UNIVERSITY #10 or LISTEN IN iTUNES ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW: Tech news from the world of digital media, listener email and a our podcast listening pick of the week. ( VOTE FOR US @ PODCASTALLEY.COM ) SEGA OPENS COMPUTER GRAPHICS STUDIOS Next-generation pushes Sega to expand visual operations. The next-generation of gaming is approaching fast. As [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digerati University #9 CLICK TO LISTEN TO DIGERATI UNIVERSITY #9 or LISTEN IN iTUNES On this week’s show: Tech news from the world of digital media, Mark mispronounces Cinelerra, and we answer listener email bag. NOTICE: MEMAP.ORG will have a booth at the Maine Family Arts Festival. The festival has relocated due to weather to the Brunswick Junior High School (Google [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website