Ohio's $71 Billion Spending Plan, OSU's BYOD Student Engagement, Yale's Library Saving Old Chipotle Cups and More

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 12:45pm (updated Monday, May 9, 2016 - 1:17pm)

Panel of Budget Negotiators Seek to Finalize Details of Ohio's $71 Billion Spending Plan

Daily Journal, June 24, 2015

A negotiating panel of Ohio lawmakers is looking to finalize the details of the state's spending blueprint. The sweeping budget proposal would increase taxes on tobacco, freeze tuition at state universities and eliminate state taxes for certain small business income…

 

The Ohio State University Rolls Out BYOD Student Engagement Tool

Campus Technology, June 10, 2015

With a focus on creating an active learning environment in the classroom, The Ohio State University is deploying the Top Hat classroom engagement system to nearly 65,000 students and 7,000 faculty members…

 

Ed Seidel Presents: Supercomputing in an Era of Big Data and Big Collaboration 

Inside HPC, June 20, 2015

In this video from the NCSA Blue Waters Symposium, Ed Seidel from NSCA presents his thoughts on supercomputing in an era of big data and big collaboration…

 

Yale's Rare-Books Library is Saving Old Chipotle Cups

The Atlantic, June 23, 2015

Yale’s rare-book library has acquired a complete set of the Chipotle “Cultivating Thought” series—the series of short, “two-minute” essays and stories printed on the side of the company’s disposable paper goods…

 

Kasich Proposal Could Eliminate Landlines

Mansfield News Journal, June 23, 2015

Gov. John Kasich and Ohio lawmakers want to make it easier for companies to eliminate landlines used by as many as 700,000 Ohioans, who don’t have access to a cellphone or broadband network…