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EARLY CUNEIFORM ONLINE

UCLA and the Russian State Hermitage Museum are teaming up to make available online the early cuneiform collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg through the campus-based Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, CDLI is sponsored by UCLA, in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Available online will be information on the largest collection of cuneiform in Russia. The CDLI itself is a collaboration of linguists, museum curators and science historians to create online archives, digital documentation and electronic publication of material from cuneiform tablets dating from the earliest phases of writing in Babylonia (around 3350 B.C.) until the beginning of the Christian era. See http://cdli.ucla.edu:591/cdli/erm/hermitage_en.html.

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

UCLA seeks to honor undergraduate faculty from all departments and divisions who are using technology to enrich and deepen students’ educational experiences in innovative ways. The Faculty Committee on Educational Technology is seeking nominees for the 2004 Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology. Any member of the UCLA community may nominate Senate or non-Senate faculty for the award. Sponsors hope it will foster an exchange of ideas and bring together a community of faculty who want to explore creative uses of technology in teaching. The deadline for submission is Dec. 12. You can submit a nomination online at www.college.ucla.edu/edtech/award.htm.

TO PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD

UCLA’s engineering school will hold a symposium to address the technological, environmental, ethical and economic issues involved in protecting the nation’s civil infrastructure. “Homeland Security: Safeguarding Civil Infrastructures” takes place Nov. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Korn Convocation Hall. The symposium brings together engineers, leading researchers from several UCLA-based research centers and policy experts for a coordinated study of the most efficient means to protect against natural, accidental and deliberate threats to the country’s transportation systems, energy generation, buildings, bridges and roadways, as well as the water and food supply. John Cummings, director of Critical Infrastructure Protection R&D, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will deliver the keynote address. To register, go to www.engineer.ucla.edu/symposium.htm.