David Devereux, PhD, professor of history, led a conversation on China and the Silk Roads in the first Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies (ICMS) Lifelong Learners course of the semester. This six-week course is held on Wednesday afternoons and is in its second week. The topic was Confucius and philosophy. The Lifelong Learners will begin a new course on Wednesday, October 9 on the topic of Vikings.
There is still time to sign up. Visit the ICMS websitefor registration and information.
Submitted by: Kristina Laun, staff, Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies
The faculty and staff turnout was strong at the Progress Report and Advisement Workshop. Thanks to all who participated!
Submitted by: Jennifer Lodi-Smith, associate professor, Psychology; interim assistant vice president, Academic Affairs
Faculty and staff gathered with their families on Friday evening, September 13 in the Christ the King Chapel undercroft for a potluck dinner and some impromptu yoga before heading to Old Main to watch InsideOut. Look out for more family-friendly events like this one in the future!
Submitted by: Jennifer Lodi-Smith, associate professor, Psychology; interim assistant vice president, Academic Affairs
The campus community is invited to watch The Dome for special “Trivia Wednesdays” which will be published throughout the school year in every Wednesday edition. The first person to respond to pubrel@canisius.edu with the correct answer will win Canisius “swag.” Additionally, once a month on Wednesdays, there will be a special giveaway in which the winner will receive some of the newly-designed Canisius Sesquicentennial gear.
Winners will be announced the following Wednesday
each week along with the correct trivia answer.
This
week’s special giveaway question is:
Where was Canisius
located immediately prior its move to Main Street in 1912?
Answer:
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Congratulations to Sarah Signorino, director of
mission and identity, who was last week’s Trivia Wednesday winner! See below
for last week’s question and answer.
Canisius diplomas were
written in Latin for the last time in what year? 1954
Steve Petersen, PhD, associate professor of philosophy at Niagara University, will present a talk entitled “Machines Learning Values” on Thursday, September 26 at 4:00 p.m. in Old Main 403.
If human beings create superintelligence (an artificial intelligence with a god-like ability to achieve its goals), what guarantee do we have that it will be friendly? Can we design it to learn values like ours? Are our values too complex to program or hardwire explicitly?
The event is free and open to faculty and students and is sponsored by the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science. For more information, contact Philip Reed, PhD, professor of phiolosophy, atreedp@canisius.edu.
This week’s physics/pre-engineering seminar will be on the topic of Electroskip™, a platform for art and innovation created by Jon Mrowczynski ’16.
An interdisciplinary art research project turned medical technology company, Electroskip combines digital media arts, computer science and engineering into a versatile technology. This patented, wearable, wireless, real-time auditory biofeedback system has been used by physical therapists, medical researchers, dancers and DJs to analyze human movement and to convert those movements into music.
The seminar will be held on Friday, September 20 in Science Hall 1028 from 2:10 – 3:10 p.m. All are welcome.
