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PhD Complete! I successfully defended my Doctoral Dissertation: Predicting War, Predicting Peace in early May.
Teaching for Fall. I will be teaching the two large (250 student) sections of Political Science 1113: American Federal Government during the fall semester at OU.
Summer Teaching. I will be teaching Political Science 2503: Relations Among Nations during the first half of the summer session at OU.
Conference Paper Presentation. My paper "Playing From Memory" was presented to the Political Psychology panel at last April's Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.
I got a fellowship! I was just selected to attend the Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Training Program, which is held at the University of California, San Diego. The workshop is being hosted by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Free Software for Starving Students! No joke, no "gotcha". The Coalition for Software for Starving Students has put together a pretty good compilation of free (not adware, not trialware, free) software for students. Lots of great open source tools, including Open Office, drawing and web design tools, music and video players, useful utilities, and even some games. You can go to the site, or just use this torrent file for the Windows version, or the OS-X version. Highly recommended.
For you Linux fans, I highly recommend the "Education" version of Ubuntu, edubuntu. Free, and open source. And, with the live CD, you can just boot off the CD without affecting your windows installation. It's a great way to experiment with Linux.
Note: The mainstream version of Ubuntu: 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope ", can be found at http://ubuntu.com. This version now comes with the live CD, plus now it includes the Wubi installer so you can run Ubuntu under Windows without having to do anything to your hard drive. Wubi and Ubuntu cost absolutely nothing (free as in beer), but yet provide a state of the art, fully functional, operating system that does not require any activation and does not impose any restriction on its use (free as in freedom). Highly recommended!
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