11. New Senior Transitions Topical Module (28:18)

Date:
2015-10-29
Main contributors:
Angie L. Miller, Amber Dumford
Summary:
Do you have data from the new Senior Transitions Topical Module? Interested in administering these items in the future? NSSE Analysts Angie Miller and Amber Dumford offer some insights on this popular 2015 module during this pre-recorded webinar. They provide a background on the rationale and development of the module, an in-depth look at the content, and highlight some intriguing findings from the aggregate data. Several suggestions for looking at data on your own campus are included as well, to help you get the most from customizing your NSSE participation with this valuable Topical Module.

12. Joseph Angotti, BS'61, MA'65 (02:24)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Angotti, Joseph
Summary:
Joseph Angotti’s career took him from student news director of Indiana University’s WFIU newscast to senior vice president for news at NBC and the chairmanship of the broadcast program at Northwestern University. Born a bakery manager’s son in Gary, Indiana, Angotti received his undergraduate degree in education from IU in 1961. He had taken a few journalism courses as an undergraduate, and he cultivated his interest in journalism further by earning his master’s degree in telecommunications at IU. In 1962, Angotti landed his first job in television at WHAS-TV in Louisville. From that point on, his rise in the industry was rapid. In 1966, he moved to WMAQ-TV, Chicago’s NBC-owned affiliate, where he was both producer and on-air reporter for its Gary bureau. In 1968, he became an NBC network producer, covering the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he was tear-gassed during the street protests. In 1972, Angotti was promoted to a producer slot in New York City with NBC Nightly News. He soon became executive producer of the weekend newscast with anchor Tom Brokaw. Angotti was awarded a national Emmy in 1975 for co-producing a series about world hunger and was chief political producer for the network’s election coverage in 1976. Working with John Chancellor, anchor of the weeknight NBC Nightly News, Angotti was the newscast’s executive producer from 1977 to 1980. Angotti later was named the senior vice president for news at NBC, overseeing coverage of presidential conventions and debates, space shuttle launches and landings, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In June 1989, Angotti was in Bloomington for IU professor Richard Yoakam’s retirement party, but had to rush off to return to New York to oversee NBC’s coverage of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He was an early protégé of Yoakam, who had developed and launched IU’s broadcast journalism program. In 1992, Angotti left NBC and formed his own company, which produced coverage of events such as the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote, filmed and edited a series of programs in Eastern Europe, From Marx to Markets, which were filmed, edited and broadcast in Eastern Europe. Next, Angotti took his knowledge to the classroom. From 1993 to1998, he was the chair of communication studies for the University of Miami’s School of Communication and was founding director of its Center for Advancement of Modern Media. In 1999, Angotti was named chair of the broadcast program at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and taught there for the following six years. He also founded the Northwestern News Network, which produced weekly newscasts for Chicago area TV stations. He continues to teach journalism at Monmouth College in Illinois. In 2006, he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.

13. Bibliography's Place in Modern Humanities Research: A Case Study from The Chymistry of Isaac Newt... (50:44)

Date:
2015-04-15
Main contributors:
Beck Sayre, Meridith
Summary:
Over the course of the 20th century, scholars took up categories of knowledge constructed through classification work done in the library and archive, but methods of analytical bibliography were never well integrated into the academy. As scholars increasingly read and work with digitized texts, however, there is renewed and critical need for bibliographical skills in order to understand how texts have changed over time, especially vis-à-vis their material form. In addition to making a case for bibliography as an essential skill for the modern humanities scholar, I will describe my recent work on creating a TEI bibliography of Isaac Newton's alchemical sources. This project, part of "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton" seeks to reconstruct a comprehensive list of the hundreds of alchemical texts that Newton read and employed from over 5000 fragmentary citations in his manuscripts. Because Newton was a lifelong and extensive alchemical reader, reconstructing a bibliography based on his annotations provides an ideal test case for how alchemical texts were studied in the seventeenth century. As such, this bibliography will be a substantial contribution to modern scholarship on Isaac Newton and the history of science more generally, underscoring the argument that bibliography has an important place in modern humanities scholarship.

14. Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior (1:34:51)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Blei, David
Summary:
Probabilistic topic models provide a suite of tools for analyzing large document collections. Topic modeling algorithms discover the latent themes that underlie the documents and identify how each document exhibits those themes. Topic modeling can be used to help explore, summarize, and form predictions about documents. Topic modeling ideas have been adapted to many domains, including images, music, networks, genomics, and neuroscience. Traditional topic modeling algorithms analyze a document collection and estimate its latent thematic structure. However, many collections contain an additional type of data: how people use the documents. For example, readers click on articles in a newspaper website, scientists place articles in their personal libraries, and lawmakers vote on a collection of bills. Behavior data is essential both for making predictions about users (such as for a recommendation system) and for understanding how a collection and its users are organized. In this talk, I will review the basics of topic modeling and describe our recent research on collaborative topic models, models that simultaneously analyze a collection of texts and its corresponding user behavior. We studied collaborative topic models on 80,000 scientists' libraries from Mendeley and 100,000 users' click data from the arXiv. Collaborative topic models enable interpretable recommendation systems, capturing scientists' preferences and pointing them to articles of interest. Further, these models can organize the articles according to the discovered patterns of readership. For example, we can identify articles that are important within a field and articles that transcend disciplinary boundaries. More broadly, topic modeling is a case study in the large field of applied probabilistic modeling. Finally, I will survey some recent advances in this field. I will show how modern probabilistic modeling gives data scientists a rich language for expressing statistical assumptions and scalable algorithms for uncovering hidden patterns in massive data.

15. Earl Blumenauer Original Interview (28:27)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Blumenauer, Earl
Summary:
Congressman Blumenauer describes how the Go 19 movement grew from a groundswell of public opinion in Washington State, discusses in-state activism and the political climate of the time.

16. The Don Yoder Lecture in Religious Folklife: "A Subtle Thing Withal”: Reflections on the Ineffab... (1:18:04)

Date:
2015-10-15
Main contributors:
Brady, Erika, Kruesi, Margaret, Primiano, Leonard Norman
Summary:
Many years ago as a graduate student studying William Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman, I came upon what was evidently a popular scatological riddle pertaining to a profound theological teaching. Since that time I have continued to ruminate over the role of humor—especially sexual and scatological humor—arising from within vernacular Catholicism. In this talk, I will consider the serious play of such forms of expression and their significance for folklorists concerned with the nature of belief in the sacred.

18. Del Brinkman, MA'63, PhD'71 (02:09)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Brinkman, Del
Summary:
Del Brinkman has had a distinguished career in journalism and university teaching and administration. He began his career in 1954 on the staff of The Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gazette and retired in 2002 as dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also helped shape journalism education through work with an accrediting organization and with a national journalism foundation. Brinkman was born in Olpe, Kansas, and earned his bachelor’s degree in English and social science from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. After writing for the Emporia paper, Brinkman taught at Leavenworth (Kansas) High School and was on the journalism faculty at Kansas State University in Manhattan. He taught journalism at Indiana University and was a tenured faculty member at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Brinkman was on the faculty at University of Kansas for 23 years starting in 1970, served as dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism there for 11 years and was vice chancellor for academic affairs for seven years. He left KU in 1993 and served seven years as director of journalism programs for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida. In this role, Brinkman was responsible for managing an annual grant budget, screening grant requests, evaluating funded projects and developing new initiatives and projects. In 2001, Brinkman left this position and began his duties as the dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Throughout his career, he also was active in journalism education curriculum development and national accreditation policy-making. He was president of the accreditation committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He served as president of the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award club in 1986. Brinkman was honored several times for his work. In 2003, he received the Dean’s Award from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications. In 2012, Brinkman was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. Brinkman earned his master’s degree in journalism and political science from IU in 1963 and returned to Bloomington in 1971 for his doctorate in mass communications and political science. During his time at IU, he was a counselor for the High School Journalism Institute and has said in interviews that he enjoyed taking theater courses. He was awarded the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1971. Brinkman lives in Bloomington with his wife, Carolyn, and remains involved in IU Journalism activities. He is a member of Rotary International, the Ernie Pyle Society, Bloomington Press Club, IU Journalism Alumni Board and the IU Student Publications Board.

19. Mike Lowry, Sam Reed, Mark Brown, and Wendy Holden Group Interview (56:42)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Brown, Mark, Holden, Wendy, Lowry, Mike, Reed, Sam
Summary:
Mike Lowry and Sam Reed discuss their efforts as co-chairs of the Vote 19 campaign in Washington State. Wendy Holden describers her role in a prior effort to lower the voting age in the state. They describe legislative lobbying and dynamics in state government. Mark Brown provides archival news from the time period.

20. What’s So Special About Sir William Osler? (1:01:00)

Date:
2015-11-18
Main contributors:
Bryan, Charles S.
Summary:
Inaugural lecture in the Leo J. McCarthy, MD History of Medicine Lectureship. Presented by Charles S. Bryan, MD, MACP at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library on November 18th, 2015.