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Spectrum, Volume 53, Issue 6
Full text linkHighlights include: SHU Receives $3 Million Grant for Education Program - ZTA Thinks Pink - SHU “Thrive(s) Together” at First Annual Event - WGSS Program Advances SHU’s Course Offerings - Puck Drops on New Season for Women’s Ice Hockey - Women’s Bowling Finishes Second in First Tournamen
Spectrum, Volume 53, Issue 3
Full text linkHighlights include: SHU Students Hack the Constitution in Annual Event - Big Red Wants You to Vote - 63’s Gets Summer Makeover, -Matt Oestreicher: The Maestro of the Community Theatre, - Intramural Sports Open for Registratio
EngiNews Fall 2022
Full text linkIn this issue: New Engineering professor, Okechukwu ‘Okey’ Ugweje Business Minor S-STEM Grant, National Science Foundation Embedded Systems course Engineering Explorations course SHU Innovate club Formula SAE Go-Kart Road Kill Recent faculty publications and press release
Man Shu, piano, February 27, 2016
Full text linkThis is the concert program of the Man Shu, piano performance on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 4:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894 by Franz Schubert, Le tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel, Années de pèlerinage, Book I, S.160 by Franz Liszt, and 3 Preludes for Piano by George Gershwin. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund
Pan Ku, the Hsiung-nu and "Han Shu" 94.
No full textI set myself three interrelated tasks in this dissertation. The first is to examine the historical method and purpose of Pan Ku (A.D. 32-92), one of China's greatest historians, as revealed in selected chapters of the Han Shu, his history of the former Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 23). I emphasise Han Shu 94, the chapter devoted to the Hsiung-nu, a nomadic people who lived beyond the northern and northwestern frontiers of the Former Han empire and represented the greatest external threat to its peace and stability. I argue that Pan Ku shaped his presentation of Former Han-Hsiung-nu relations into an argument against the policies for managing the Hsiung-nu adopted and maintained by the first three emperors of the Later Han, rulers in whose reigns he lived and worked. For him to have done so was fully in accord with the Chinese belief that history could and should provide sure guidance for one's own time. My second task is to focus attention on the extremely successful policy of barbarian management based on the principle of chi-mi or "loose rein" that had been formulated by the eminent scholar-official Hsiao Wang-chih, adopted by the Chinese court in the 50's B.C. and not ab and oned by it until A.D. 9. Pan Ku held this policy in high regard as the only sound basis upon which to order China's foreign relations. His regard for chi-mi as implemented in the Former Han was not shared by later statesmen and historians with the result that the policy has since been ignored or misrepresented. This occurred because chi-mi seemed "to bring Heavenly constants into disorder." Not only did chi-mi not dem and the formal submission of the Hsiung-nu to China, it actively discouraged it. My third task has been to evaluate and criticise recent interpretations of Han foreign policy on the basis of close reading of the relevant Han Shu chapters. In this, as in all other aspects of this dissertation, I have sought to approach my text, the Han Shu, with as few preconceptions as possible.PhDAsian historyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/161983/1/8821663.pd
A Case Study of Global Project Collaboration between Three Universities from Three Countries
No full textIn early 2013, Sacred Heart University (SHU)’s Welch College of Business began to revamped its undergraduate curriculum in response to the business climate of the 21st century. Through the processes, a global experience was identified as one of the critical success factors for our undergraduate program. While SHU offers several business courses in Luxemburg, Iceland, and China, many students cannot afford to take these classes. The impact of a global experience is limited to a small number of students. For global experiences to touch the majority of our students, they need to bring global experiences into the classroom. The WCOB faculty came up with the idea that they could bring the global experience to the classroom. The logic behind this idea is that the globalization phenomenon increasingly requires collaborative work to be conducted online through advanced telecommunication technologies. Without traveling overseas to have a physical meeting to get work done, employees/business associates are required to work together over long distances and overcome barriers including culture difference, language, and time. It means that business communication skills required to overcome language and cultural barriers over telecommunication media would be increasingly important, and they are necessary for business students. Through a connection of their own international faculty, SHU contacted the School of Business Administration at Bangkok University (BU) to discuss the possibility of developing a Global Experience Project (GEP) together. BU showed strong interest in the idea of a joint-effort GEP. Two instructors from Sacred Heart and BU volunteered to develop a global experience project and pilot in their classes in the fall of 2013. What interesting is that both classes did not teach the same subject. Sacred Heart’s class was the introduction to management information systems, while BU’s class was the database management. BU’s class was more technical oriented and their business students had stronger technical skills than Sacred Heart’s. To overcome these challenges, they came up with an idea of supply chain activities. SHU students’ role would be a business owner and BU students’ role would be a system developer. SHU teams would outsource BU teams to develop database systems to support their business operations in the US. SHU teams would come up with a detailed business operation and effectively communicate with BU teams. BU teams would deliver database systems that reflected the business requirements from the US. Eight SHU-BU teams were paired. SHU students were required to contact BU teams in Thailand through email, an instant messaging application called Line, and Skype. Both instructors closely monitored the SHU-BU-team conversations through the Line app. Two weeks before the final project due date, BU teams delivered their database systems to the SHU teams for the final feedback. The SHU students reported that they had great experience working on the GEPs and even developed friendships with their collaborators in Thailand. The success of the first GEP led to three more collaborations from 2014-2016. In 2015, the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland joined the GEP with SHU and BU. SHU-BU teams competed with SHU-UCC teams. The success of this three-university collaboration led to the second collaboration between three universities in 2016
Spectrum, Volume 39, Issue 2
Full text linkHighlights include: Dr. Steven Michels, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences since 2002, has been appointed Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning --SHU listed as #4 on US World News Report list of the Most Innovative Schools in the North --Are You Autism Aware? Club gathered on the 63’s patio for a “Puzzle-a-thon” to raise awareness and promote acceptance for those affected by autism --Second Agape Latte with guest speaker and Director of Campus Experience, Rob Gilmore --SHU students react to DACA --Hurricanes Harvey and Irma: The aftermath --Tell us uour story: Junior Hector Gutierrez (photo) --Alumni spotlight: Susan Magnano, who graduated from Sacred Heart in 2003 with a degree in Media Studies --Haywire: A chronology of the 2016 presidential contest, by Dr. Gary L. Rose --Five SHU cross country runners honored by NEC (photo)--New football quarterback Kevin Duke starts season with success (photo) --Hiring of William Boe-Wiegaard as the men’s and women’s tennis head coach (photo)
Principles before Profits: An Interview with S. Truett Cathy
Full text linkInterview of S. Truett Cathy with Miles K. Davis and Leyland M. Lucas.
Since 1946, S. Truett Cathy, founder and chairman of Chick-fil-A Inc., has run his enterprises based on his understanding of Christian principles. In the following interview, S.Truett offers his perspective on why focusing on principles is more important than focusing on profits and what he thinks it takes to succeed in business and in life
Robust stabilization of uncertain T-S fuzzy time-delay systems with exponential estimates
No full textBased on sliding-mode-control theory, we develop a fuzzy controller design method for a class of uncertain time-delay systems that can be represented by Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models. In terms of linear-matrix inequalities (LMIs), we derive a sufficient condition for the existence of stabilizing sliding-mode controllers. We show that the sliding-surface parameter matrix can be characterized in terms of the solution of the LMI-existence condition. Our LMI condition does not require stabilization of the pair of the state and input matrices. Thus, our method can be applied to a broad class of uncertain systems. We also give an LMI-based algorithm to design a switching feedback-control strategy so that a stable sliding motion is induced in finite time. Finally, we give a numerical-design example to show that our method can be better than the previous result
Fan Ye's Biography in the Song shu: Form, Content and Impact
No full textIn the centuries after Fan Ye's death many literati praised his Hou Han shu, but at the same time a surprising number of them also criticized the historian's character. This paper argues that Fan Ye's biography in the Song shu, which depicts the historian as a weak and despicable man, was the primary source for many of the accusations made by his critics. The biography's influence can be explained by its careful narrative modeling. The Song shu authors highlighted certain aspects of the life of Fan Ye, while simultaneously obscuring others, with the goal of depicting him as an unfilial and despicable rebel. This paper is an attempt to retrace their steps in order to offer an alternative way of reading the otherwise strangely neglected text
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