Written by Jade Nowland on November 10, 2011.
Skeeter Bird, Northwestern Foundation CEO, announced the Northwestern Foundation fiscal year 2011 closed with a record amount of dollars received in support of the university and its students. More than 800 donors, including 54 percent of faculty and staff, gave $3,555,356.17 during the last fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011.
“As we celebrate this accomplishment, I hope that we remain focused not on the number of dollars we raise but instead on the number of lives we change,” Bird said. “We thrive with the purpose of changing the lives of our students—an incredibly worthwhile endeavor.”
Support gathered in fiscal year 2011 surpassed the previous record of $3.3 million raised in fiscal year 1998. At the end of the fiscal year, the Northwestern Foundation’s total assets added up to $19,412,239.84.
The Northwestern Foundation’s endowment also saw record returns with a 20.2 percent return on investments. Bird commended the Foundation’s Investment Committee—Donovan Reichenberger, Jason Claborn, Bert Mackie, J. Michael Rauh, Mic
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Written by Jade Nowland on November 4, 2011.
In my game theory course, we are working through many ways of ascertaining the optimal decision-making given the constraints of game rules on the decision-making context. We are learning the many different types of games and how the games are played. We are engaging sequential and synchronous games. We are looking at various conditional contexts. We are drawing game trees. We are engaging normal and strategic table structures. We are using various algebraic equations to figure out expected utilities of certain players within payoff matrices.
Remembering Notation Precision
These endeavors are all very fun and precisely rigorous. I have to make sure that when I solve an equation (yes, back to 7th grade), I have to make sure not to introduce error. I have to ensure that I’m carrying numbers correctly. Revisiting algebra is almost like re-learning a foreign language with which one has a history—there is that degree of symbolism and abstraction. Tha
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Written by Jade Nowland on October 26, 2011.
Unless youve been on a deserted island or maybe in a very long meeting this morning (and the past week), you know that some very lucky 500+ higher ed web professionals are having a blast in Austin at the High Ed Web Conference (hey, you might even be one of them 
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This year the conference fairy didnt let me go (even though I had a blast last year in Cincinnati, OH). Instead she sent my wallet which is definitely having fun in Austin as my professional development company, Higher Ed Experts, is sponsoring this year again the opening keynote of the conference, a keynote about Web Accessibility, this time, presented by Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach Coordinator at the W3C.
We decided to do another video (as we did last year for the keynote by Steve Krug), because video is a pretty good medium when you cannot be there 
This year, however, this isnt a Todd Sanders production. His LA-based agent didnt even return my calls. I guess this is normal now that Todd is a big shot driving a Mercedes Benz (to be fair, Todd told me he was already crazy busy the code word for no way, Jose, right?
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Written by Jade Nowland on October 18, 2011.
A view of the ACRE/SFs logo outside during the party.
Last night, Refinery29 hosted a grand opening extravaganza for ACRE/SF at the stores location in Telegraph Hills Union Street area. ACRE/SF, sister store of the designer boutique Acrimony located in Hayes Valley, is a coffee and clothing shop all in one where fashionistas/fashionistos can get their clothing and caffeine fix in one stop. Genius!
Fashion forward party-goers posing inside of the store.
Emphatic sounds of the live band could be heard down the block and crowds of some of San Franciscos most fashionable were posted outside of the shop mingling and sipping on some of the complimentary drinks served.
As if the drinks didnt scream party enough, the display windows outside were covered with steam and as soon as you walked in, a thick wave of heat engulfed you, welcoming you to the party.
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Written by admin on October 13, 2011.
In order to get information regarding Medical billing and Medical coding you must use the link aboutmedicalbillingandcoding.org. This will guide you and give you all the knowledge regarding the colleges that offer the courses in this field and their location. It also tells you about the colleges located near your locality.
Medical billing and coding is fast emerging as a successful career option these days. It is attracting more and more people interested in going in the health care sector. Medical Billing is the process in which the interaction between the insurance companies and the health care service providers is mediated when the healthcare service provider contacts the insurance companies for reimbursement of payment and fees. Read more…