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Regis University Online offers accelerated online degrees 0
<p>Regis University Online at a glance:
- Established in 1877 in Denver, Colorado
- Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association
- U.S. News Ranking: 26 th best university in the West
- Ranked as one of the top schools in the western United States for 13 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report
- Accelerated 5 week or 8 week terms offered for those desiring a degree fast!
- Affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church
- Regis University ’s online MBA program has the largest distance learning MBA enrollment in the nation
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What sets Regis University Online apart?
Regis University ’s Jesuit tradition sets it apart from many institutions catering to working adults. Regis University Online holds strong to the Jesuit values of social justice and academic rigor in all of its degree programs. The Jesuit affiliation means that Regis will not sacrifice academic quality to make classes fit into the online format. Prospective Regis students can be sure that they will be challenged by their courses and, upon completion of all credits, truly have earned their degree.
Quality academics are extremely important for working adults who want to enhance their professional opportunities. Employers surely won’t be impressed by a job candidate with a degree but lacking the knowledge to back it up. Regis graduates have done the work necessary to really know there stuff and their degree tops it off. Due to Regis’ dedication to excellence, U.S. News has named it one of the top schools in the West for over a decade.
Regis University Online is a private university and a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The University is comprised of three distinct schools: Regis College (liberal arts), Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions, and the College for Professional Studies. Regis University’s College for Professional Studies is designed to make education accessible for working adults. The College offers adults both classroom-based and online degrees.
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Regis University Online Bachelor’s Degrees:
- BA in Communication
- Bachelor of Applied Science
- BS in Accounting (detailed review of Online Accounting Degree)
- BS in Business Administration
- BS in Business Technology Management
- BS in Computer Information Systems
- BS in Computer Networking
- BS in Computer Science
- BS in Criminology
- BS in Finance
- BS in Human Resource Management
- BS in Marketing
- BS in Public Administration
Regis University Online Undergraduate Certificate:
- Certificates in Technology (12 semester hours)
- Computer Networking
- Enterprise & Web Application Engineering
- E-Security
- Information Systems Security
- JAVAâ„¢ Programming
- Software Engineering
- Certificate in Adult Spirituality (12 semester hours)
- Certificate in Catholic Studies (12 semester hours)
- Certificate in Conflict Management (15 semester hours)
- Certificate in Criminology (15 semester hours)
- Certificate in High Performance Management (18 semester hours)
- Certificate in Homeland Security (18 semester hours)
- Certificate in Leadership (15 semester hours)
- Certificate in Peace and Social Justice (18 semester hours)
- Certificate in Practical Psychology (15 semester hours)
- Certificate in Irish Studies (12 semester hours)
- Certificate in Project Management (15 semester hours)
- Certificate in Psychology of Violence (18 semester hours)
- Certificate in Public Administration (19 semester hours)
- Certificate in Technical Writing (15 semester hours)
Regis University Online Master’s Degrees:
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Science in Accounting (detailed review of Online Accounting Degree)
- Master of Science in Criminology
- Master of Education
- Master of Nonprofit Management
- Master of Science in Organization Leadership
- Master of Science in Database Technologies
- Master of Science in Software Engineering
- Master of Science in Systems Engineering
- Master of Science in Information Assurance
- Master of Science in Information Technology Management
- Master of Science in Software and Information Systems
Regis University Online Master’s Certificate:
- Certificate in Accounting
- Certificates in Technology
- Database Development
- Database Administration with Oracle
- Database Administration with IBM DB2
- Executive Information Technologies
- Software Engineering
- Enterprise Java Software Development
- Systems Engineering
- Information Assurance
- Storage Area Networks
- Certificates in in Organization Leadership
- Executive Project Management
- Executive Leadership
- Strategic Business Management
- Strategic Human Resource Integration
- Executive International Management
- Certificates in Nonprofit Management
- Humane Management and Administration
- Pastoral Administration
- Leadership
- Resource Development
- Program Management
- Social Justice, Peace and Reconciliation
- Certificates in Education
- Instructional Technology
- Educational Leadership
- Literacy
- Adult Learning, Training and Development
- Certificate in Business Administration
- Project Management
- Technical Management
- International Business
- Master of Arts Certificates
- Individualized Graduate Certificates
- Master of Arts in Counseling Certificate
- Post-Graduate Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy
- Post-Graduate Certificate in Counseling Children and Adolescents
Regis University Online Tuition and financial aid
Regis University Online Undergraduates and RHCHP Traditional Nursing charge $888 per credit hour, the College for Professional Studies’ tuition rates vary by program, and the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions - Non-traditional programs’ tuition rates vary as well.
Interested? Take 2 minutes and get complete details (pre-reqs, tuition, scholarship, program details, etc.) from Regis University Online Degrees or Online MBA.
Nature Nanotechnology Cover 0
<p>With the help of the author, I created the following cover illustration for a paper coming out in Nature Nanotechnology….getting to know those people at Nature pretty well, now.
Anyway, we’ll see if it get’s accepted. The submitted abstract is taking advantage of the acoustic qualities of SWNT (nanotubes, single walled nanotubes) for use in molecular imaging. What this illustration is trying to convey is the idea that light shines in, this case a red laser, and acoustic waves, sound, are produced by the SWNT. These sound waves can then be picked up by a specific scanner to produce images.
Perkahwinan Hafiz Hashim dengan Nadzatul Shima Mohd Nazari 0
<p>Men’s singles shuttler Mohd Hafiz Hashim has tied the knot with his long time sweetheart, Nadzatul Shima Mohd Nazari on June 3 and what he has promised that after the wedding he plans to give his all to take his game back to the top. The first tournament that Hafiz will give his full attention after his marriage with Nadzatul Shima Mohd Nazari is the World Championships at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil from Aug 13-19. “I got engaged to Nadzatul on Feb 17. Life will be different for me but not my zeal to take my badminton career to greater heights,” said Hafiz after a training session at the Juara Stadium in Bukit Kiara yesterday. Hafiz dan Nadzatul bertemu di Kejohanan Remaja MSSM Penang, 8 tahun lalu. Nadzatul is an Actuarial Science Diploma holder from UiTM. Perkahwinannya penuh dengan suasana yang menarik. Congrats Hafiz!
NATIONAL BADMINTON PLAYER, HAFIZ HASHIM
Grimspace 2
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Written as a guest reviewer at Enduring Romance for Kimber An. Go check out her lovely, lovely review blog!
I’m curious to know how the name Grimspace came about. While the title obviously comes from the name of the space humans with special J-genes “jump” into to traverse the universe, it fails to capture the joy and addictive ecstasy jumpers get from grimspace itself. Be aware that Ann Aguirre’s debut science fiction novel pulls romance into the fore, though its romantic nature doesn’t displace any action. The romantic overtones aren’t a shock considering Aguirre has written romantic fiction in the past under a different name.
Grimspace is a change from the run of the mill space opera, though, in its tone and perspective. It uses first person present tense narration that brings a kick in the pants along with it, pushing the action into the forefront. It also puts the focus directly onto Sirantha Jax, who is a heroine with loads of attitude.
We first meet Jax right before she’s about to escape from a psych unit with the help of mysterious man March. With her lover and former co-pilot dead, Jax must now make a run for it and make the first jump she has made since that time with a pilot she has never met or bonded to. Soon we’re introduced to the ship’s crew, who want Jax to start a rogue training program for other jumpers so their rebel group can reduce the monopoly her former employers, the Farwan Corp., have on space transport. To do that, they have to find other people with the J-gene. Along the way, Jax must deal with herself, her relationship with her telepathic co-pilot March, save a sentient baby lizard, escape a pirate space-station breeding programme, and dodge an extremely polite shape-shifting bounty hunter.
For a novel like this to succeed, it really requires a likable main character, and Sirantha Jax is that. She’s strong, and someone who acts with loyalty and caring despite herself. And she’s the longest living jumper out there, which speaks to her stubborn nature. I didn’t believe the psychosis that the character kept proclaiming (read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar or even Sarah Monette’s Mélusine if you want crazy done convincingly) and wondered if this was a symptom of Jax’s lack of self-knowledge. Her relationship with March overlaps with her grief from losing her last love, and their relationship grows with each argumentative exchange, fraught with physical attraction and their need for each other. Aguirre’s use of Jax’s voice is almost mesmerizing at times, and is what makes the novel speed forward so quickly.
And I’m aware of his hands on the controls as I never have been. I could almost fly the ship if I had to, because we’re not him and me, we’re…we, and then I sense his astonishment, sharing my mind’s eye as we gaze outward to grimspace.
Maybe I gave him some sense of it before, but this time, he sees completely and I know he does: the glory, the colors, and the almost-manifest monsters that writhe along the hull. The Folly ploughs through liquid fire; the world without is a conflagration of possibility, ideas and dreams barely conceived and waiting to be given form.
But March and yes, it’s the March-me spinning my mind’s eye away from the beacon. He’s doing it and I didn’t even know this was possible. He’s trying to show me-
Shit. There’s a ship coming up fast behind us (p. 148).
Grimspace was clearly designed as a “non-stop thrill ride” of action and romance, and Aguirre accomplishes that goal very well. Its rapid plot turnover helped make my nit-picky science-oriented self back off from the book’s logical inconsistencies. Most notably, a swamp planet that had planet-wide seasonal change and an ice planet with an unsustainable ecosystem without humans–who were not native to it (and seem to willingly live there despite creatures that go crazy at the scent of ANY human blood). Though there is speculation here, it’s more of the social type than the hard-science type, so don’t wrack your brain too hard.
The speed of plot elements hit a wall in the last third of the novel: the story moved too fast, and pulled too much in at once while eliminating some characters in not-so-meaningful ways. The media broadcast moment at the end struck me as too simple a solution, and something that Farwan conceded to far too easily. I have to say that the last couple of paragraphs just smacked me in the face with a corniness that seemed out of character for the novel as a whole and really disappointed me.
That said, the book takes an interesting spin on feminine-masculine power relationships, both in relationships between characters and in the societies that Jax and her fellow crew visit. “Mother Mary” is the expletive of choice, which ties into the reproductive politics explored, and the idea of exploiting women for their reproductive power. Though religion remains a mostly unexplored depth for Sirantha, she dips in her toe. It seemed to me as though later volumes have the potential to go somewhere very interesting with themes of genetic and reproductive politics entering the fray, especially if religion is bound into it all.
Ann Aguirre’s Grimspace is the kind of book that you can kick back with and enjoy the ride, as long as you don’t think too hard about it. It’s got enough humour and action to preoccupy you for a few enjoyable evenings, and its sequel, Wanderlust, is due to hit shelves in August 2008, with two more books in the series currently contracted. I’m looking forward to them.
Aguirre, Ann. Grimspace. New York: Ace Books, 2008. 326 pages. $7.99 (Canadian), paperback.
See also: selected reviews by Grasping for the Wind, Fantasy Café, Dear Author, and FantasyBookSpot.
Quick DIY Portable iPhone 3g Charger 0
<p>I’m going to the desert for a week and wanted a way to recharge my iPhone. I bought a zap rx4-c, which works with most of my other devices, only to learn that it’s not compatible with the iPhone. Zap’s customer service was friendly but they should change their description in two ways: One, you can use regular AA batteries with it for living out in the field for a long time (yay!), and two, it’s not compatible with the iPhone or iPod Touch (boo.). The iPhone requires a 2.4V and 2.8V reference signal on the data pins for it to charge…Crafty Apple! Zap is coming out with a cheap adapter for the Rx4 but I needed something right away.
There are circuits out there for converting the 5V to the proper data pins and voltage, but I already had a 12V car adapter that would supply them. So instead, the goal was to supply 12V to my car adapter with batteries.
The solution:
2 6V lantern batteries
Alligator Clips
Female Car Adapter
iPhone Car Adapter
Cardboard Box
If you wire the batteries in series you get 12V. It works fine, though the adapter whines pretty loudly which worries me a little. Also, I am aware that batteries encased in paper and cardboard are a slight fire hazard. I’m only going to charge this outside while I’m watching it. (Any advice is appreciated, this isn’t much different than how the iPhone charges in a car is it?)
Thanks to Fred for his help conceptualizing this.
Saga of a dinosaur CAT scan 1
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I made a rare foray into daily news over the weekend, with a story posted at Wired online about the discovery of a dinosaur “mummy.” (In quotes as it’s a naturally preserved dino, not mummified in the sense of ancient Egypt; so don’t get excited you old-earth creationist folks.) The short piece was actually many months in the making, although it might not look it. I found out about the discovery from National Geographic Television over the summer but have had to keep it under my hat since then.
Back in June, I flew down to Boeing’s research office, in the hills outside of Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, to observe the dinosaur heading into the company’s giant CT scanner. It didn’t go exactly as planned. The researchers, led by Phil Manning from the University of Manchester, had trucked the body from South Dakota, only to discover that they’d built a frame around it too wide to spin on the CT bed. As a result, most of the day was spent hacking and sawing away at the corners of the dino’s plaster, trying to shrink it enough to fit. (more…)
Weird Science 0
<p>Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them to “create” a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who’s purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.