On QC Mailer, December 27, 2007:

City University of New York High Performance Computing (HPC) Enterprise Technology Initiative

A training course on the use of high performance computing in research will be conducted during the week of January 21 at the CUNY Graduate Center (5th Avenue and 34th Street, New York, NY), Room C196.03.

Topics covered will include the following:

• Use of the CUNY HPC systems/li>
• FORTRAN and C Review
• HPC Systems Architecture
• MPI
• Alternative programming models
  • OpenMP
  • UPC and CAF
• Application Examples
• Visualization
• Future of HPC

The training course will include hands on exercises on the CUNY HPC systems.

Attendance is limited to 12 individuals. Prerequisites include prior experience in UNIX/LINUX and familiarity with either Fortran or C.

To register for the course, please send an email and include your contact information to
HPCHelp@mail.csi.cuny.edu. A confirming email will be sent back to you.

Thank you,
Michael E. Kress
Vice President for Technology Systems
College of Staten Island
718-982-2350
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Best practices for developing and using rich-media audio & video podcasting in teaching and learning

Calling all Queens College faculty interested in participating in a pilot project that focuses on instructional uses of audio and video podcasting. A CUNY-wide initiative aims to examine best practices. From the application:

CUNY has an opportunity to develop and evaluate best practices involving the use of academic podcasts. Determining the value of podcasts as a pedagogical tool will require the engagement of faculty led teams supported by Academic/Instructional technologists and Centers for Tech-nology and Learning across CUNY.

Apple Computer’s iTunes U audio and video file hosting service is one element among many other innovative and challenging technologies that will be made available for use in this pilot project.

The pilot project will provide faculty participants with a controlled environment in which to design and implement podcasting into their courses and to build a body of best practices, useful tech-nologies and work process that support teaching. To accomplish these objectives the project will rely on Blackboard, the collaborative tool that faculty and students use today that will link to a podcasting storage system such as iTunes U.

Deadline for college (team) applications is January 23, 2008. If you're interested, please contact the Queens College Center for Teaching and Learning as soon as possible, by emailing Eva Fernández or Melinda Miller.

Read the application: MS Word, PDF

The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY invites applications for two full-time residencies, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and eight release-time fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year. Mellon Resident Humanities Fellows will receive full release from undergraduate teaching to spend the academic year at the Graduate Center, pursuing their research and helping to coordinate an interdisciplinary seminar comprised of the other Fellows.

Application: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Humanities/sacredannouncement.pdf
Center for the Humanities website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Humanities/mellon.htm

Applications are due Tuesday, January 16, 2008.

At a meeting on January 29, 2008, Eva Fernández, Director of the Queens College Center for Teaching and Learning, discussed ongoing work by the Center, focusing on faculty development and the new General Education curriculum.