Entitled "Contemporary East Asia," the discussion featured Course XVII Professors Taylor M. Fravel, Richard J. Samuels PhD '80, and Edward S. Steinfeld.
The discussion featured Center director Jack P. Shonkoff Robert W. Blockk, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and Roberto Rodríguez, Special Assistant to the President for Education Policy in the White House.
The official said the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was also optimistic, and at a news conference of his own after the meeting, Mr. Berlusconi said the discussion featured "nuances of opinion, but not a real attitude of rejection".
Jointly hosted by the Columbia GSAPP Urban Design Program and an American Institute of Architects, NY Chapter, Global Dialogues series, the discussion featured DK Osseo-Asare, founding principal of Low Design Office as well as UD professors Dilip DaCunha, Guilherme Lassance, Nora Akawi, and Geeta Mehta; the discussion was moderated by Kate Orff.
Andrew's most memorable event to date was the discussion featuring the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, Sergei Kislyak on October 11.
The discussion featured two main social enterprises: Swasth India, which provides low-cost and discounted health care services to slum dwellers, and WaterWalla, which sources and introduces clean water technologies into Mumbai's informal settlements.
One is being led by the Raise the Wage Coalition in Los Angeles which is seeking to enforce a $15.25 wage, and the other is the discussion featured in the Los Angeles Times which centers on restaurants and how that increase can be phased in for restaurant employees, who receive tips, while simultaneously addressing the financial concerns of restaurant owners.
We also explored whether any of the coded discussion features (such as Exchange of Quality Reasoning) could predict higher percent correct on revotes; these linear regression models had adjusted R = 0.18 0.23, but no discussion features predicted the percent correct (except the covariate initial percent correct, described earlier).
Broadcast on C-SPAN as Journalists Remember the JFK Assassination, the panel discussion featured members of the press who spoke of their experiences on the day 30 years earlier that JFK was killed.
The data feedback and discussion features of the online system appeared to reduce MAD-M values (i.e., increase the level of agreement) between Phase I and Phase III without forcing participants into consensus.
