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META LAB and the DLC are collaborating to provide a series of Excel workshops throughout the Fall 2014 semester to support the MIIS community.  Learning sessions will progress from introductory topics to more advanced tools and functions. Your facilitator will be META Lab graduate assistant and Data Analysis Teaching Assistant:...

This week Erich Pacheco, Manager of the Ocean Health Index at Conservation International, and Ben Halpern, Professor of Marine Biology at UC-Santa Barbara, will give the talk “Ocean Health Index Regional Assessments: A Tool to Inform Decision-Making and Maximize Sustainable Ocean Productivity.”  The series is open to all students and any member of the public interested...

Silent meditation with Julie Johnson, every Wednesday from 12:30-1:00 in CF 452

I wish my first foray into Spanish was a little more profound than “I need to take a language, let’s give Spanish a shot,” but it really wasn’t. I was coming back to the US for the first time in almost ten years after living and working on four different continents doing a variety of […]

As I stepped onto the tarmac at Muscat International Airport to begin a summer long Arabic program, I became enveloped by a heavy miasma of humidity. I couldn’t wait to grab my luggage, head to my air-conditioned hotel room, and change into lighter clothing. Little did I know that these simple desires would never come […]

I remember the day that I had my first encounter with a piece of Japanese culture. It was a crispy afternoon in my hometown of Dorado, P.R.  I turned on the T.V. set, and that’s when I saw my first peek of what I would later find out that goes by the name of animé. […]

The Library has just added these new DVDs to its collection: Page One: Inside the New York Times Nueva Reinas/Nine Queens (Argentina) Fresa y chocolate/Strawberry & Chocolate  (Cuba) Amores perros (Mexico) El Aura/The Aura (Argentina) Guantanamera (Cuba) Los Olvidados (Mexico) Weapons Races Bill Moyers: God & Politics All of these new DVDs are available for 3-day checkout @ the Library!