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.
News
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.
We participated in the 2nd
We participated in the 2nd conference of the CFR/WB/WWF on the Great
Restoration of forests. We presented a paper “How much will feeding more
and wealthier people encroach on forests?” All papers are posted on the
project website:
https://greatrestoration.rockefeller.edu
We newly post “Dematerialization,” our
We newly post “Dematerialization,” our 1989 paper that popularized the use
of that word in environmental studies and helped start a wave of research
about it.
Coverage of Columbia’s 1999 “State
Coverage of Columbia’s 1999 “State of the Planet Conference” in the Boston Globe.
*No longer available, contact phe@rockefeller.edu if you wish more information.