Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Global Penn State: Kenya
The first episode of Global Penn State follows Penn State students adventures in Kenya as they tackle problems related to health care, unemployment, nutrition and renewable energy. The students design ventures using existing, affordable technologies that target specific problems in marginalized communities while providing Kenyans with economic opportunities.
Penn State student-led ventures include "Mashavu" (Swahili for "chubby cheeked")- connecting doctors to patients in remote villages through an ingenious, affordable system of biomedical devices, cell phones and computer laptops; "WishVast", an Ebay-like social network that connects workers to employers and farmers to manufacturers – improving supply chains and employment through communities built on trust; and "Essential Design" – a class in which students designed and built a biogas generator, a high tunnel greenhouse, and a drip irrigation system using low-cost, locally found components. The work is part of Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship initiative led by senior research associate Khanjan Mehta and Prof. Tom Colledge from the College of Engineering.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
How to Do Stand-ups?
2009: The Photographer of the Year- Darren Durlach, WBFF, Baltimore
The Photographer of the Year- Darren Durlach, WBFF, Baltimore from Poynter Institute on Vimeo.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Gaming the Border
Gaming the Border: a Report from Cochise County, Arizona
Jerry Kammer
Senior Research Fellow, the Center for Immigration Studies
Jerry Kammer began working for the Center for Immigration Studies in 2009. He began his work in journalism in 1974 as a reporter with the Navajo Times. In 1986, Kammer became the Northern Mexico correspondent for The Arizona Republic, where his work was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Award for humanitarian journalism. In 2002 he joined the Washington bureau of the Copley News Service. He he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his work in helping uncover the bribery scandal whose central figure was Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham. He is a graduate of Notre Dame, holds a Masters in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
NYT: Amish Farming Draws Rare Government Scrutiny
Click the link below and watch it. We will discuss how to improve it.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/30/science/earth/20100530_AMISH_FEATURE/index.html