VIDEOCONFERENCE TACKLES SOCIAL ILLS
Technology unites thinkers at nine schools
A year after Hurricane Katrina, rebuilding efforts are moving forward along the Gulf Coast. Another constructive mission is also under way: a three-day summit with nine participating colleges and universities — including BU — to discuss critical social issues exposed by the hurricane...
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=40785&template=4&from_email=true
STORM PREDICTION CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE ON TAP FOR KATRINA SUMMIT
A year after Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Louisiana and Mississippi region, rebuilding efforts are finally moving forward. But it's the remaining, deeper tears in the region's social fabric that will be the main focus of a unique series of dialogues and events at the University of Illinois designed to engage the researchers, technologists, artists, activists and community members in critical conversations about issues that arose in Katrina's wake...
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/918518.html
FOUR-DAY KATRINA 'SUMMIT' AT U. OF I.
Four-Day Katrina 'Summit' at U. of I., elsewhere, strives for positive change
The four-day summit “Katrina: After the Storm – Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology” is scheduled to take place Sept. 27-30 at various venues on and off the U. of I. campus. Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and several campus units, the free summit is being organized to engage the public in critical conversations about issues that arose in Katrina’s wake, including social justice and equity, broken connections and the need for community healing....
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0914katrina.html
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, did African Americans get fair treatment from the media?
If you watched any television, listened to any radio, picked up a newspaper or visited a news website in the days that followed Hurricane Katrina last year, you probably were witness to the result of dozens of on-the-spot editorial decisions made by news managers around the country...
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1471224,00.html
THE LOWER 9th WARD LIES IN RUINS
The Times Picayune
THE LOWER 9th WARD LIES IN RUINS
Aug. 25, 2006
By Gwen Filosa
A year after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures nearly obliterated his historic residential neighborhood, Herbert Gettridge Sr. hasn't given up on his home in the Lower 9th Ward....
http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1156485491218950.xml?NP1&coll=1
PROFESSOR SEES INEQUITY, LITTLE CHANGE, IN POST-KATRINA SCHOOL REFORM
UI News: New Orleans Schools
Today's News from the University of Illinois News Bureau
Aug. 23, 2006
The state took over most of the New Orleans schools and began an effort to reopen as many as possible as charter schools. The result is 'one of the most massive experiments in urban education ever conducted,' says Luis Miron, education professor at Illinois. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0823schools.html
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NATURAL-DISASTER RECOVERY EXPERT HOPEFUL ABOUT NEW ORLEANS PLAN
UI News: New Orleans
Today's News from the University of Illinois News Bureau
Aug. 18, 2006
As an urban planning researcher who studies how cities rebuild following natural disasters, Rob Olshansky has kept his scholar's eye keenly focused on redevelopment plots and subplots surfacing this past year in post-Katrina New Orleans. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0818neworleans.html
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