University Ratings

Does any of the top Universities in US offer admission for PhD in engineering in other than the fall term?

Look at specific Universities‘ admissions. This site is like the worst place to go for questions like this.

Some undergrad programs are more into psychologie or biology. I am looking for the best University in the US with a clear orientation towards information behaviour and wayfinding/findability.

You may do better trying to find this program at a more science-oriented university, then. See if they offer what you’re interested in at the following Universities:

-Carnegie Mellon
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-University of California, Berkeley
-Georgia Institute of Tech
-Cal Tech
-Rensellaer Polytechnic

I’m thinking you’re most likely to find it at the first three schools I mentioned.

My roommate keeps saying that most CA universities are better then Oregon’s, particularly University of Oregon. Does anyone know where I could see the ranking? Does anyone know the ranking of U of O vs. CA public university?

Generally, the CA Universities are high ranked (higher than U of O), although it varies by the specific institution (i.e. UCSB vs. UC-Berkeley, etc.).

According to this list of Best Colleges 2010 at usnews.com, The UnivUniversity of Oregon is rank #57 and almost all of the UC schools rank in the top 15. However, U of O is still an excellent school.

I might be attending the UW this fall and I was wondering which dorm was the best. I will be a first-year college student.

Im looking at the same thing.
Ive been researching and asking around… ive heard that for freshman, Lander/Terry are the better social environments.
McCarty is the newest, but heard it is not as social. Same with Haggett.
What sort of room are you looking to get? (single/double/triple)
Lander/Terry rooms are best suited for 2 people, 3 is pushing the limit
McCarty is a bit larger and suits 3 people much better.
McMahon has a private cluster environment, where you share room with a limited number of people. If you want to focus on your studies a little more, I would go for this one.
Whatever you do, dont go to mercer! Ive only heard bad reviews on this one.
Good luck and Ill maybe see you in the fall =)

for being too ill? Some one I know claims she was kicked out for being ill. She doesn’t seem that sick to me, but she says the program is really competitive. I think it probably is, but why would a college kick anyone out if they are still receiving payment? I’m starting to think her grades weren’t good and she’s just to embarrassed to admit it. She is an over achiever type.

Yes, they can kick you out for being ill, but usually there are circumstances involved. If she can’t keep up, she goes on academic probation. If she can’t fulfill those requirements, she is out. Perhaps she has mental illness or a drug problem that she chooses not to share.

Many very ill people don’t seem that sick to others because you only see them on ‘good’ days. They stay home on ‘bad’ days.

Thousands of organizations and businesses are going the extra mile and spending the extra dollar to buy utility-scale energy from renewable resources. So much so that the United States E.P.A. (Environmental Protection Agency) compiles a quarterly list of the top green power companies from their Green Power Partnership program which came out in July 2008.

Some businesses take diminutive steps towards a green campaign, but these companies are proving their allegiance to a greener environment by voluntarily spending millions of dollars on clean energy.

1. Intel purchased 1.3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in January 2008. This compensates for 47 percent of the companies overall energy use.
2. PepsiCo purchased 1.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2007, the equivalent of powering 90,000 homes for an entire year. This accounts for 100 percent of their annual energy use. PepsiCo was named Green Power Partner of the Year in 2007 by the E.P.A.
3. U.S. Air Force has already purchasd 9 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year as of July 2008. They have invested in a number of biogas, biomass, geothermal, solar and wind energy providers.
4. Wells Fargo has purchased 5.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity from wind energy providers thus far in 2008. They are also a Green Power Partner of the Year in 2007. More than green energy, Wells Fargo has made a number of other commitments to their green campaign including LEED certifying their buildings and offering online account statements.
5. Whole Foods Market, the past two years has purchased enough green energy to compensate for 100 percent of their energy use, totalling to over 5 million kilowatt hours annually. The company is also investing in multiple other efforts to reduce their carbon footprint on the environment.

Other organizations ranking high on the E.P.A.’s list are Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson and The UnivUniversity of Pennsylvania.

Nick Tart
http://www.articlesbase.com/causes-and-organizations-articles/top-5-green-energy-companies-from-2008-728430.html

Could a tsunami hit Southern California? The answer to that question is a resounding yes. The whole area is geologically very active, so it is certainly a possibility. This is the premise behind Gordon Gumpertz’s new book Tsunami.

I enjoyed this novel a great deal, Gordon has done a very good job of building his characters and also developing the plot. The heroes are knights in shining armor, and the bad guys are straight from the loins of Satan, this is what a true adventure/thriller/action novel should be.

Our heroes are Dr. Leilani (Lani) Sanches a seismologist who is convinced by her computer model that a huge seismic event is going to occur offshore, and cause a colossal loss of life. Unfortunately Lani finds herself at odds with other leading researchers and her University, who for a variety of reasons, not least of which is monetary, would prefer to down play the issue. Our other hero is Coast guard Commander Dave Steel, who also believes Southern California is in imminent danger.

Our bad guys are a motley assortment of thugs and criminals. most notably George Hacker international shipping magnet and gun smuggler, his main hit man Ho Kai Fat who seems to have been loosely based on the James Bond villain Oddjob, and Harley Wamp, a greedy land developer.

Gordon Gumpertz has done a great job of intertwining what are really three separate stories into one. We have the ‘disaster’ aspect of a predicted tsunami, we have David Steel trying to solve how huge amounts of cheap illegal weapons of Asian origin are finding their way to the west coast of the US, and we have Harley Wamp who stands to make or lose billions of dollars on a land development in Camp Pendleton. For those of you not familiar with Southern California, Camp Pendleton is a huge marine base that lies between Oceanside and San Clemente, should the marines ever move out, this would indeed be 26 miles of very prime beach front real estate!

Tsunami is a tsunami from page one. Gordon Gumpertz wastes no time, the story starts with a bang, and the reader is off on a 300-page wild adventure. Will a caldera form offshore, will the source of the gun smuggling be found, and what will happen with the land speculation?

I will not give the plot away, but I will say this. Using a very subjective guide, the Simon system of book rating, you can determine how good a book is by the total elapsed time that it takes me to read it. Most books I read 50 pages, and go do something else, read another 50 pages, go do something else, so the normal book takes a couple of days. With Tsunami I sat on the porch, and read it cover to cover in about 4 hours! I could not put it down. I know this is a cliché, but I have to say it anyway, Tsunami is a page turner.

You can pick up your copy of Tsunami from Amazon.

Simon Barrett
http://www.articlesbase.com/writing-articles/book-review-tsunami-by-gordon-gumpertz-687234.html