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SOURCE Web site, Symposium, and Summer Funding

The following e-mail was sent yesterday:

To: Case Students, Faculty, and Staff,

At last! SOURCE (Support of Undergraduate Research & Creative Endeavors) has a Web site: http://www.case.edu/provost/source

You also can find it quickly by linking onto the "Research at Case" on the home page and then linking onto SOURCE.

STUDENTS: I ask you to please help me recognize your accomplishments in research and creative endeavors by sending me updates, and I will insert them in the "recognition" section. As always, if you want individual assistance, please contact me. I am happy to work with you.

FACULTY & STAFF: I also encourage you to inform me of our students' accomplishments. I invite you to share your own experiences with undergraduate research and creative endeavors either as a mentor OR as an undergraduate.

I want to call your attention to the Symposium link. This year's Symposium and Poster Session, Intersections, will be on April 20, 2006. The deadline for abstracts is March 20, 2006. I encourage all of you who are involved in senior capstone projects and other research and creative projects to present your work. I want to especially encourage humanities and arts students to consider presenting your work. You don't have to present a poster. Meeting rooms are reserved in Thwing Center for you to present your capstone (and other) papers. I also want to work with performance students about possibilities for presenting your work.

SOURCE summer funding applications will be online after January 1, 2006. The deadline for applications for SOURCE summer funding is Wednesday, March 8, 2006.

If you have additional questions or require more information, send e-mail to:sheila.pedigo@case.edu

The following e-mail was sent today:

To: Case Students, Faculty, and Staff,

At last! SOURCE (Support of Undergraduate Research & Creative Endeavors) has a Web site: http://www.case.edu/provost/source

You also can find it quickly by linking onto the "Research at Case" on the home page and then linking onto SOURCE.

STUDENTS: I ask you to please help me recognize your accomplishments in research and creative endeavors by sending me updates, and I will insert them in the "recognition" section. As always, if you want individual assistance, please contact me. I am happy to work with you.

FACULTY & STAFF: I also encourage you to inform me of our students' accomplishments. I invite you to share your own experiences with undergraduate research and creative endeavors either as a mentor OR as an undergraduate.

I want to call your attention to the Symposium link. This year's Symposium and Poster Session, Intersections, will be on April 20, 2006. The deadline for abstracts is March 20, 2006. I encourage all of you who are involved in senior capstone projects and other research and creative projects to present your work. I want to especially encourage humanities and arts students to consider presenting their work. You don't have to present a poster! Meeting rooms are reserved in Thwing Center for you to present your capstone (and other) papers. I also want to work with performance students about possibilities for presenting your work.

SOURCE summer funding applications will be online after January 1, 2006. The deadline for applications for SOURCE summer funding is Wednesday, March 8, 2006.

If you have additional questions or require more information, send e-mail to mailto:sheila.pedigo@case.edu

The differences:

• In the main paragraph, the phrase "consider presenting his work" was changed to "consider presenting your work"
• The e-mail address as the very end was corrected to work properly

Oops! I made a grammar error when I sent an e-mail. I guess the whole campus needs to see it again. Seriously, somebody with some common sense needs to have their finger on the trigger button that sends these things to the entire campus. Two identical e-mails in 24 hours. Wow.

You can ping this entry by using http://blog.case.edu/gps10/mt-tb.cgi/4561 .

And to think, if it was posted to blog.case.edu supplying everyone with an RSS feed, they could have updated the content and no one would have known the difference.

As long as people are not aware of the blog and/or the use of RSS feeds, we will continue to seem these mass campus emails. As a librarian, I am invited to lecture in various classes throughout campus. When I mention RSS feeds, I get dumb stares from more than 90% of the students and faculty. I think a campus-wide effort needs to be made to increase awareness of these technologies. I plan on offering a CaseLearns class this spring semester about how to use RSS feeds in order to increase awareness and keep your email box empty.

I wonder if Case and other organizations do not make some announcements by RSS feed for security reasons. Anyone can subscribe to a RSS feed, but emails are directly delivered thus suggesting a message is for "your eyes only". Just a thought. Can RSS feeds be password protected, so only Case faculty, staff, and students would be able to read the posts?