The Department of Commerce has established a new Panel on Ocean Exploration on which Jesse is serving. The work of the panel is described at https://oceanpanel.nos.noaa.gov.
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New essay on the Great
New essay on the Great Reversal of the
destruction of nature on-line.
The ruckus continues over Jesse’s
The ruckus continues over Jesse’s
Millennial energy essay, with
The Industrial Physicist running several letters about it and Jesse’s
replies in its April and June issues, and more to come in August.
Virtual U released! University management
Virtual U released! University management goes high tech.
Culminating 5 years of work, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Jackson
Hole Higher Education Group, and Enlight Software announce the release of
Virtual U, a new software product
that enables a player to preside over a university and provides a compelling
new way to understand and work with the challenges of higher education.
Virtual U was conceived by William Massy and Jesse. Purchase your copy at
the Virtual U web site.
The Census of Marine Life
The Census of Marine Life officially begins with the
announcement of 8 grants involving more than 60 institutions in 15 countries to begin the
creation of the Ocean Biogeographical Information System, as reported in
Science magazine 288:1575-1576 (2 June 2000).
An article about the Sloan-sponsored
An article about the Sloan-sponsored university simulator Virtual-U appeared in the New York Times on 9 April 2000 – Running Things (Into the Ground)
An article about professional master’s programs appeared in The Scientist on 3 April 2000 – Designer Degrees or Academic Alchemy? – Professional master’s programs attempt to teach skills for todays world
An article in Nature magazine
An article in Nature magazine (408:8 (2000)) describes a recent meeting organized by
Jean-Jacques Salomon and Alexander Keynan in Paris on the topic of global scientific
cooperation in a post Cold War era.
Jesse participated in the meeting, and is quoted in the article.
* If interested in obtaining a copy of the article contact phe@rockefeller.edu
Our work on hydrogen is
Our work on hydrogen is reported in the cover story of the Italian weekly newsmagazine
Liberal on 9 December 1999, pp. 9-13, (Vol. 2, no. 48).
The winter 1999/2000 issue of Earth Matters, published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, contains
a synopsis of Jesse Ausubel’s speech, titled
“Resources are Elastic”,
presented at the “State of the Planet” Conference. (see the 17 November 1999
entry in this list for information on streaming audio/video of the conference).
Jesse’s millennial essay “Where is
Jesse’s millennial essay
“Where is energy going?” appeared in The
Industrial Physicist 6(1): 16-19, 2000 (February). The essay had appeared
in Italian in the special millennial edition of the Italian financial
newspaper, Il Sole/24 Ore, on 17 November 1999.
The April 2000 issue of The Industrial Physicist contains
several letters responding to the essay.
Two new articles about Virtual-U©,
Two new articles about Virtual-U©, the
university simulator.