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Fwd: [CSL] Postdoctoral Fellowship Institute for Advanced Studies Lancaster University
by jeremy hunsinger 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Begin forwarded message: > From: Joanne Roberts <joanne.roberts(a)DURHAM.AC.UK> > Date: June 1, 2004 7:51:27 AM EDT > To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [CSL] Postdoctoral Fellowship Institute for Advanced Studies > Lancaster University > Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society > <CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > > From: Conlon, Ryan [mailto:r.conlon@lancaster.ac.uk] > Sent: 01 June 2004 11:08 > To: Joanne Roberts > Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship Institute for Advanced Studies > Lancaster University > > > Dear Joanne > Could you please forward this to the CSL list? It should be of > interest to readers of the list - possible topics include the > knowledge economy, intellectual property, information and > communications technology, etc. > > Cheers > Ryan > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > Lancaster University > > Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and Social Sciences > > One Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship > £21,640 (Spinal Point 6 Research Grade 1A) > > The Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and Social Sciences > invites applications for one two-year postdoctoral research > fellowship, commencing October 2004. There is no predefined field of > research but proposals should be transdisciplinary within the overall > mission of the Institute (see http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ias for > further information and particulars). > > > To apply or receive further information online, please visit > http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/personnel/jobs or telephone Personnel > Services, quoting reference A278 on answerphone (01524) 846549. The > application deadline is 15th June 2004 > > Further Particulars > > The Institute of Advanced Studies in Management and Social Sciences > > Lancaster University was rated among the top ten UK institutions in > the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise with strength in depth in > management and social sciences. The Institute of Advanced Studies was > established in 2003 to consolidate and develop Lancaster as a leading > centre of excellence for inter-, trans- and post-disciplinary > research, both nationally and internationally. The Director of the > Institute is Professor Bob Jessop and the Chair of the Academic Board > is Professor John Urry. Institute members pursue a wide range of > theoretical and empirical research that challenges traditional > disciplines and fields of study through the incorporation of new > theories, methods, frameworks, and data and the Institute itself aims > to build effective links between the various management disciplines > with broader concerns in political economy and the social sciences. > > The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship > > As part of its overall mission, the Institute is offering two > postdoctoral research fellowships commencing on 1st October 2004 or as > soon as possible thereafter. Their purpose is to offer opportunities > for an outstanding scholar with a recently awarded doctorate (normally > in the last 3 years) to strengthen his/her research profile and > contribute to the mission of the Institute. The positions are open to > scholars from any country. > > There is no predefined field for research but proposals should be > inter-, trans-, or post-disciplinary within the overall mission of the > Institute (see http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ias for further information > and particulars). By way of non-exhaustive illustration, topics could > fall within the areas of the knowledge-based economy, regional > economic development, the professions, security, governance, > intellectual property, information and communication technologies, the > learning society. Potential candidates are invited to discuss > preliminary proposals with the Director, Professor Bob Jessop, by > e-mail (R.Jessop(a)lancs.ac.uk) > > The fellowship is for 24-months (not renewable). The salary scale is > spine point 6 on the Research Grade 1A scale. The Fellow will belong > both to the Institute and to an appropriate department of the > University. The IASMSS is able to make contributions towards certain > research expenses associated with the Fellowship. Fellows benefit from > the advice and support of a mentor from the Institute but no formal > supervision is offered. > > Applicants should submit a CV, a 4-5 page research proposal, and ask > three referees to send references directly to Personnel Services, > Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, quoting A278, without further requests > to do so. Long-listed candidates will then be asked to submit written > work and interviews will take place on 13th and 14th July, when > candidates will also give a short seminar presentation on their > research. The Institute will pay fares and expenses for short-listed > candidates to attend interviews. > > Preliminary inquiries can be made to Professor Bob Jessop, Director of > the IASMSS, by e-mail (R.Jessop(a)lancs.ac.uk) or telephone: (+44) 1524 > 594192. > > Addresses for Correspondence: > > Professor Bob Jessop Personnel > Services > Department of Sociology Lancaster > University > Lancaster University LA1 4YW > LA1 4YL > > > > > > Ryan Conlon > Lecturer in Criminology > Department of Applied Social Science > Lancaster University > Lancaster > LA1 4YL > Tel. +44 (0) 1524 593570 > email r.conlon(a)lancaster.ac.uk > http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/apsocsci/staff/conlon.htm > > Reviews Editor, Critical Discourse Studies > http://www.cds-web.net/ > > > > > *********************************************************************** > ************* Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a > moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the > interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its > manifestations.To join the list please visit: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html > *********************************************************************** > ************** jeremy hunsinger jhuns(a)vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Understanding Media Symposium (Last call for participation)
by Phil Rose 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

http://www.mcluhan.ca/symposium_understanding_media.phtml Understanding Media: The extensions of man by Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canada's intellectual comet, was published in 1964. Forty years later, the McLuhan Global Research Network invites scholars, students, artists, and members of the public to participate in this online symposium on the impacts and relevance of this now classic work. The responses online will be curated and displayed at the Understanding Media Critical symposium to be held in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba (McLuhan's alma mater) on June 4, 2004, 12:30 - 2 PM, as part of the annual Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Congress (Multimedia theatre - Rm. 100, Fletcher Argue). To join the symposium live during that time, visit www.mcluhan.ca for instructions on how to participate virtually. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Forty Years of Understanding Media: A Symposium June 4 At the 2004 Social Sciences and Humanities Federation Academic Congress at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, on June 4th, 12:30 - 2 PM, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and the McLuhan Global Research Network, in partnership with the Association of Media Ecologists North, InSounds McLuhan Oral history project, and other interested participants, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of publication of Understanding Media: The extensions of man, written by one of the University of Manitoba's most eminent alumni, Marshall McLuhan. This will be a multi-media event. Online comments will be accepted for the web-based counter-environment project for this symposium. For information, please contact Liss Jeffrey at the University of Toronto (ljeffrey(a)mcluhan.org) or Phil Rose at York University (prose(a)mcluhan.org) Understanding Media : Quarante ans plus tard Le 4 juin Le programme McLuhan en culture et en technologie de la University of Toronto et le McLuhan Global Research Network, en partenariat avec l'Association Media Ecologists North, le project InSounds histoire parlant, et autres intéressés célébrera le quarantième anniversaire de Pour comprendre les médias, de Marshall McLuhan, illustre ancien de la University of Manitoba. Il s'agira d'un événement multimédia. Veuillez diriger vos questions à Liss Jeffrey : ljeffrey(a)mcluhan.org ou Phil Rose: prose(a)mcluhan.org.

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Question on reputation studies (professional reputation)
by Jan Hauser 31 May '04

31 May '04

Hello All, I am looking for a person, group, or collection of research or researchers that focus on reputation as it applies to a ~individual as a professional~. This can be in the role of employee, consultant, advisor, or other professional role. I am aware of the Reputation Research Network hosted by Paul Resnick et.al. at the University of Michigan: http://web.si.umich.edu/reputations/ http://web.si.umich.edu/reputations/bib/bib.html Can anyone provide me with additional leads? I am a newcomer to this list so please excuse me if there was a previous body of traffic in the past that answered my question. Thanks - Jan Jan Hauser Email jan(a)janhauser.com WWW http://www.janhauser.com

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (june 2004)
by david silver 31 May '04

31 May '04

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: Caterina Davinio, Tecno-Poesia e Realta Virtuali: Storia, Teoria, Esperienze tra Scrittura, Visualita e Nuovi Media (Editoriale Sometti, 2002). Reviewed by Jorge Luiz Antonio Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland, eds., Japanese Cybercultures (Routledge, 2003). Reviewed by Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro, eds., Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (MIT Press, 2003). Reviewed by Nick Mercer david silver The September Project on the net --> http://www.theseptemberproject.org on the map --> http://www.com.washington.edu/september/map.asp

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Re: [Air-l] Educational System and Information Society
by Robert Hassan 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hi Julio, You could also have a look at my own humble effort: The Chronoscopic Society: Globalization and Knowledge in the Networked Economy (2003) New York: Lang. Good luck Robert Hassan >>> jmenesesn(a)uoc.edu 05/25/04 9:33 AM >>> Dear all, I'm looking for some literature about the evolution of Educational Systems at the Network or Information Society. All the bibliography usually available on Education and Information Age is concerning about how multimedia and new ICTs are modifying the learning process at online environments (for example Distance Universities). However, I need to find some references about the evolution of the whole Educational System when it gets into the Information Age, maybe seen from a systemic point of view. Any hints? Any reference or place to start looking for are very welcome. Thank you very much in advance! _________________________________________________________ Julio Meneses Naranjo Investigador del IN3 Doctorando del Programa de Sociedad de la Información del IN3 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Estudis de Psicologia i Ciències de l'Educació Avinguda Tibidabo 39-43 08035 Barcelona (Spain) jmenesesn(a)uoc.edu

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Call for Participation: Mobile HCI 2004/Convergent Media Workshop
by A.C.Roibas＠bton.ac.uk 28 May '04

28 May '04

Deadline extended to 7 June 2004: Call for Participation: Mobile HCI 2004 Site: http://www.handheldusability.com/mobilehci2004 Design for Convergent Media is a full day Workshop for the Mobile HCI 2004 conference in Glasgow, Scotland. The workshop will be held on 13 September 2004. Abstract The workshop intends to explore and analyse crucial issues in the design of the interaction in scenarios of ubiquitous communication. Mobile telephone handsets, still and video cameras, music play, walkie talkie features, and television programming will all be considered. Theme and Interest of Topic The recent developments in communication technologies (3G, iTV, broadband, etc) will strongly enhance and extend communication possibilities in ubiquitous contexts. In this sense, convergent media is becoming one of the main relevant HCI issues. Therefore, new design approaches, HF (Human Factors) studies, behavioural theories and evaluation techniques must arise in order to be able to design interactive mobile products that provide the user with a positive experience. Objectives Development of a HF research agenda for this specific issue, to identify and extend the research community in this topic. Moreover, to sensitise designers to the unique interaction design issues for convergent communication scenarios (learning models, interface evaluation, etc.). Duration and Organization The workshop is designed for one full day of activity with relevant theoretical discussion, ending with a poster design session. After the presentations and discussion, participants will be invited to choose a format of interactive service for ubiquitous contexts and hypothesise a suitable scenario of use that will enhance users' interactive experience with several devices. Each team will be asked to summarize its findings with a poster presentation. Agenda and Schedule The workshops will run from 9am until 5pm on Monday 13th September (the only workshop day). Duration Activity 1:30 Introductions & Paper presentations 0:30 Project discussion & break into groups 1:00 Participatory design and paper prototyping 1:00 User testing and redesign 1:00 Group presentations 1:00 Documentation and Poster preparation 1:00 Poster presentations and group discussion Expected Outcomes This workshop will evaluate the evolution of HCI for convergent media and discuss new challenges for the industry in this field. Posters will summarize findings from groups' works. Results of the Workshop will also be made available on the Workshop's Web site. Authors' Names, Affiliations and Backgrounds Full bios are on http://www.handheldusability.com/mobilehci2004 Dr. Anxo Cereijo Roibás Senior lecturer, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences University of Brighton. Professor of Interaction Design and Multimedia Strategies Faculty of Design, Politecnico di Milano University a.c.roibas(a)brighton.ac.uk Scott Weiss Principal, Usable Products Company Chair, Usability SIG of the New York Software Industry Association Author, "Handheld Usability" (Wiley: 2002) sweiss(a)usableproducts.com Deadline for submissions: 7 June 2004 Site: http://www.handheldusability.com/mobilehci2004 ----------------------------------------------------

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RE: Re: [Air-l] Educational System and Information Society
by Julio Meneses Naranjo 27 May '04

27 May '04

Thank you very much Robert Like, Robert Hassan, Fernando and Irene for your great suggestions that are very appreciated. Cheers, *You might want to look at a paper I presented at AoIR 3.0 *or *in the AoIR Research Annual, "The Effects of New *Communication and Information Technologies on Academic *REsearch Paradigms" _________________________________________________________ Julio Meneses Knowledge Society Program Ph D. Candidate Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3 - UOC) Research Staff Project Internet Catalonia (PIC) - School on the Network Society (http://www.uoc.edu/in3/pic/)

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Re: [Air-l] ethnography and ethics
by Jonathan Marshall 26 May '04

26 May '04

> >Thomas writes: > > > > > "Perception" and "convention" are two different things. Those domains of > > > the Internet that I mentioned below, are public by convention, however any > > > single individual perceives them. The technique that makes the data on > > > www/usenet available does not allow for effectively concealing the data > > > from the general public, once a URI has been published or a posting has > > > been posted. > > > >That is simply not the case. > > How can you say that? What, if I have a different perception of hiddeness? > (scnr) Indeed, that is the point. These things are uncertain, and you do have a different idea of what is public to some other people :) > >Much stuff can be hidden. > > "Being hidden" and "having been concealed" are two different things. There > is, of course, lots of hidden material on the www, but that material has > not been intentionally concealed. I'm not what this does, other than emphasise my point that the web is not always unambiguously public. > >As i was arguing ethical tropes are not inherently persuasive, but depend > >on rehetorical and personal factors. Ethics are ultimately undecideable. > >That you don't find the arguments i said more or less persuased me, is not > >inherently surprising, and indeed I know of know way to make those ethical > >arguments persuasive. > > That's terrible. Does Mr. Habermas know that? Does his idea of > communicative rationality not have enough problems already? It certainly has serious problems if taken as a description of reality, rather than as an ideal prescription. > Seriously: If > you argue that on a purely philophical basis, ethical arguments cannot be > ultimately decided, then that is a truism. Not for everyone. Besides quite a few people object to the idea. And if it *is* a truism, why don't you appear to accept that ethics is uncertain? > That does not mean that ethics > are merely a matter of taste, or that all arguments are equally > persuasive. I have not argued that that because things are uncertain, every argument is equally valid. However what this implies for me is that ethics are an ethnographic question and cannot be assumed in advance by the researcher applying their own standards. It also implies that ethics is a matter of argument, and that persuasiveness is a socially based phenomena. As a minor point, I'm not sure why taste, should be dismissed as a 'merely'. Taste is not something which seems to have been satisfactorarily explained - even by Bourdieu :) By the by you might like to prove your point about ethics being a matter of taste, by suggesting an ethical position in research which could never be ethically approved by anyone, anywhere, in any situation. > > If some people think their blogs or usenet discussion enjoy privacy > > protection, they are mistaken, their *perception* does not reflect the > > actual technical and institutional arrangements. > > > >Again, because you can shoot people does not make it always ethical - even > >if the law allows it. > > That's besides the point. I am not arguing here that the way the Usenet and > the www works is morally good, I am merely describing that communication on > these parts of the internet is publicly available. you seem to be arguing here: 1) The arrangement of usenet and the www is not necessarily morally good and 2) making use of this arrangement for research is morally good. > That is a falsifiable > hypothesis that seems pretty hard to refute to me. So, I challenge you to > falsify it. Well i've just spent some time trying to search for usenet comments by myself under various addresses and identities, and have failed in general. Although occasionally i found posts by me quoted by others :) It is of course difficult for me to prove that many other texts i don't know about are generally unaccesbile. Besides as i keep saying, I'm not disagreeing that that much of usenet is accessible, what i am disagreeing with is the argument that this automatically makes any use of the texts found there by researchers ethical. > >However, perceptions, do reflect social facts and processes, as such they > >cannot be assumed, and it may not be ethical to violate them by fiat. > > Perceptions are certainly not a isomorph reflection of social reality, you > don't have to read Marx (->false class consciousness) to figure that out. Again that I argue that perceptions are a product of social processes does not mean that I argue that they "isomorphically" reflect social reality. But what does that have to do with ethics? > How do you "violate" perceptions? By treating them as stupid or obviously false, and making use of the person's different perception. > > > If you just fell off Mars and would not know, what kind of technique TV [snip] > >If I was studying martians I would find this interesting, and not > >something to dismiss as ignorance or stupidity. > > No offense, but I think that the ETs will become my friends, because I will > be glad to explain them their mistake. If every time you tell someone they have made a mistake, by exploiting that mistake, then they have become your friends, you have lived in a different world to me :) Informing someone they were wrong, is not the same as making use of, or drawing attention to their error by using it for your own research. Hackers who crack computer systems to show how insecure they are are not always appreciated. > > There may be different concepts, about what *belongs* into the public > > realm, but as long as you are making any distinction between public and > > private, it will be hard to make an argument that Usenet and www are *not* > > public(ly available). > > > >This sounds like you believe that humans are consitantly rational or > >something, > > I don't understand, how you get the idea that I would argue here that > "humans are consitantly rational". Largely because you seem to be implying that given the nature of the facts, only one reasonable conclusion can be drawn consistantly by humans (and martians for that matter). > >I was trying to argue that law and ethics are not the same thing. Because > >you can legally do something does not mean that it is ethical. > > Of course not, but in democratic polities, law is IMO a pretty > good decider for ethical questions. That is an ethical position and debateable :) > > > >who is is making these assumptions? > > > > > > Common sense? The actual technical configuration and its nstitutional > > > underpinnings, if you'd prefer the fancy answer. > > > >Common sense, is something to be investigated not assumed. > > I did investigate it and found that common sense, for once, made sense. So before this debate on this list you have never found anyone who's common sense about what consitutes a public domain differed from yours? > > The technical configurations have nothing necessarily to do with social > > conceptions and conventions - they may have, they may not. > > In this particular case, they do have something to do with each other: When > I publish my webpages on the WWW the technical configurations make it > feasible that you access these pages for any computer that is connected to > the Internet. In fact, my employer had the conception that I should make > material available for public use, and, voila, it is. Obviously that is your place of work's convention :) Do you have internal web pages which are not supposed to be accessible by outisders? > > > If they are password protected or the relevant URIs have not been > > > published, that's a different story. In fact, if there are no links to > > > your private website parts, it is debatable, if they are even part > > > of the www. > > > >That is the point is it not: "it is debatable"! > > Yes, it depends on your definition of the www. A definition that would > exclude such pages, seems reasonable to me, just as one that would include > them might be a possibilty. In sociology, I would prefer the former > definition, in engineering the latter. So we agree ? > >Not "it is certain" to me the investigator. > > Once, we have agreed on a definition of what exactly constitutes the www, > it is certain for all practical purposes, that is, leaving some ephemeral > philosphical musings aside. who is this 'we'? How do we know that everyone argees to be defined as we? Again this argument implies some fixed kind of consistant rationality to me. > [to be continued] cool... jon -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. 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Re: [Air-l] Re: Data
by ren＠aldermangroup.com 26 May '04

26 May '04

elijah wrote: >regular old ISPs do exactly the same thing - to some extent, the >university is just another ISP which can peer with whatever will lower its >total costs for bandwidth and data line leases. Indeed. The internet is essentially a group of islands (Autonomous Systems) and the way that packets move about is by hopping form island to island. A Peering arrangement is effectively a bridge between two islands in (almost) exactly the same way a Transit arrangement is – the difference being that in Peering the traffic is roughly the same in both directions so money does not change hands, whereas in Transit the bigger player sells to the smaller one. So hand- off to a peer reduces overall cost. Though I’m not sure it impacts data line lease as the traffic from people’s computers to ‘the net’ i.e. the peering point, is the same. Peering does effect network topology as packets generally like to take the lest number of hops – in many cases the shorted route will be via the most connected island i.e. the most peered network, so flow will go along these lines and you will see big peaks at major connection points e.g. MAE West - this does not really impact the original question (on the source side) as data still comes from someone’s computer that is geographically sat somewhere, it does impact destinations, as these are predominantly hosting centres which tend to be clustered around interconnection points. Ren ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:00:12 -0500 (CDT) >From: elijah wright <elw(a)stderr.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Re: Data >To: air-l(a)aoir.org > > >> Ok, not to jump in with an irrelevant conversation, but when I talked to >> a former CIO of a big university, he pointed out that the strength of >> internet-2 was in peering, that the biggest uni's who join the I2 >> network will be factoring in a peering factor when their universities >> are charged for internet access. > >regular old ISPs do exactly the same thing - to some extent, the >university is just another ISP which can peer with whatever will lower its >total costs for bandwidth and data line leases. > > >elijah > >> So hypothetical only, charges would disappear and couldn't be tracked, >> although traffic would of course not disappear (isn't that the truth). >> >> Denise > > >_______________________________________________ >Air-l mailing list >Air-l(a)aoir.org >http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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Re: [Air-l] Educational System and Information Society
by Irene Berkowitz 26 May '04

26 May '04

You might want to look at a paper I presented at AoIR 3.0 or in the AoIR Research Annual, "The Effects of New Communication and Information Technologies on Academic REsearch Paradigms" ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:33:12 +0200 >From: Julio Meneses Naranjo <jmenesesn(a)uoc.edu> >Subject: [Air-l] Educational System and Information Society >To: "air-l(a)aoir.org" <air-l(a)aoir.org> > >Dear all, > >I'm looking for some literature about the evolution of Educational >Systems at the Network or Information Society. All the bibliography >usually available on Education and Information Age is concerning >about how multimedia and new ICTs are modifying the learning >process at online environments (for example Distance Universities). >However, I need to find some references about the evolution of the >whole Educational System when it gets into the Information Age, >maybe seen from a systemic point of view. Any hints? > >Any reference or place to start looking for are very welcome. Thank >you very much in advance! > >_________________________________________________________ > >Julio Meneses Naranjo >Investigador del IN3 >Doctorando del Programa de Sociedad de la Informaci�n del IN3 > >Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >Estudis de Psicologia i Ci�ncies de l'Educaci� >Avinguda Tibidabo 39-43 >08035 Barcelona (Spain) > >jmenesesn(a)uoc.edu Irene Berkowitz Director of Curricular Publications Temple University Office of the Vice Provost 215-204-7596 Please note my new email address below and update your address records accordingly. irene.berkowitz(a)temple.edu

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