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These presentations were given by four students, many of which were funded by the NIH Bridge Grant, at Daytona State College in Room 134 in Building 410 at 2 P.M. on Friday, 2008 October 24. I wasn’t there to take photos, but I took a few anyway.
Dr. Backer saying hello to friends and students.
Dr. Backer explaining the pizza, which was given out before the show.
Students acquiring the pizza. There were two types: pepporoni and mushroom. I ate a slice of mushroom pizza and drank …
Daytona State College is holding 6 open houses this month: 1 at each campus. All of them are 2 hours, from 5-7 P.M. The first one is this evening at the Flagler / Palm Coast campus.
There will be some kind of food and drinks. The dates and locations were announced here. Here’s a copy of that list:
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Flagler/Palm Coast Campus
Bldg. 2, Rm. 106
3000 Palm Coast Parkway S.E., Palm Coast
Thursday, Oct. 9
New Smyrna Beach-Edgewater Campus
Bldg. 2, Rm. 109
940 10th Street, New Smyrna Beach
Tuesday, Oct. 14
DeLand Campus
Bldg. 7
1155 County Road 4139, DeLand
Thursday, Oct. 16
Deltona Campus
Fathi Hall
2351 Providence Blvd., Deltona
Tuesday, Oct. …
Check out the Physics page I added, with a practice test for tomorrow’s physics test, with answers. I’ll add new stuff there before test 3, and throughout this and the spring semesters.
9:15 P.M. EST 2008-11-15:
Sorry this is late. The test is Monday 2008-11-17, keep studying these problems: 10.3, 7, 11, 20, 33, 39, 43; 11.3, 14, 23, 33, 41, 44, 46; 12.5, 15, 26, 30, 36, 44, 48, 55.
Problem 3 on the practice test is the hardest. #5 and #6 assume you know Kepler’s 3rd law, the mass and radius of the earth, G, and the black hole formula. I showed them in the solutions above. Dr. Tulsian should write those on the board during the test, if he picks …
Just got word of this article from the News-Journal. Daytona State College is working with the Rocky Mountain Institute to improve energy efficiency, but three of eight of the board members are against it because RMI supports global warming. The decision went through with a majority vote, and DSC will take $1500 from RMI and send three staffers there for training ($3000 cost).
The article notes about Peter Mallory, one of the board’s members:
He specifically quoted the institute’s mission statement, which says, in part: “There is now overwhelming evidence that human activities are changing the world’s climate.” …
Mallory suggested
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Remember last week’s voting event for the new Daytona State College logo? The winner has been announced as the logo with the college seal, but without shadowing. Out of 2718 votes, 1500 students and faculty chose this option:
If you’ve forgotten, these were all the options. The winner is third down:
I wanted the bottom one, with the shadowing, to win. It didn’t look good on the voting page (all blocky because of the way they scaled it). That’s why it lost. The one you all picked would’ve been my second choice, though. 
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Hi everyone! I’ve been busy on my personal development blog, the Tweet This plugin for WordPress I made, and my Daytona State College classes. But I want to share these photos from the DSC welcome party last week (August 27).
People at the party, enjoying the cool Florida weather. 
Dr. Michael Flota (left) and Steve Pruitt (right), of Phi Theta Kappa. Pruitt is the student president of the Daytona State’s Mu Rho chapter, and Flota is on the board of directors. Dr. Flota teaches sociology (fall) and economics …
I saw this on the Daytona State College home page when I went there today; an event called Pick Our Logo:
“DAYTONA BEACH, FL (Aug. 25, 2008) – Pick Our Logo is a unique opportunity for Daytona State College students, faculty, staff and the community to have a voice in our new logo.”
The college is allowing students to vote their favorite from one of four prototypes for the new DSC logo.
Click the image above to see a bigger version, or go here on the college’s website to see them all.
The immediate problem on the college’s …
MVSmith asked this question over in the Daytona State College forum:
Virtual College
Where did it go?
I’m signed up for Sociology via online with the VC and not only have I not yet heard from the professor, but the links I have to the VC no longer work. On top of that, I’ve been searching the new site for DSC and there’s nothing there (that I’ve found anyways).
So, if we have a class online, how do we get to it?
It’s a good question. The new virtual college is confusing. My Physics professor, Dr. Gajendra Tulsian, asked a student to log …