A cornet solo to shatter the silence

Sub-Evil Boy's first jazz solo

It’s been over a month since I last posted, which is a sign of how incredibly busy things have been here. My apologies to anyone who’s actually noticed. :-)

Finals week and graduation are over, and grades are due Wednesday night, so there is light at the end of the tunnel (if a reasonable amount of grading pain between here and there). With a little luck I’ll return to some posting and being a somewhat less pathetic on-line citizen. In the meantime feel free to go visit my Flickr photostream, where there are various bits and dribbles of my life on display.

The quartet of images above are from tonight’s Morris Area Schools end-of-the-year jazz concert, and show Sub-Evil Boy’s first jazz solo. He wrote his own solo and presented it to Mrs. Vick (the excellent director). (We were well in the back of the auditorium, so these are crops out of long shots, and consequently pretty soft.) He did a really nice job, as did the entire band. Pretty amazing given that they’ve only been in jazz band one school year. Well done all!

I again apologize for the long silence, and hope to be “back on the air” soon.

Thanks!

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Many congratulations to go around

A reading circle

It’s been quite a week for Computer Science students here at UMM and they definitely deserve some props. In no particular order:

  • Emily Christiansen just got back from a wonderful weekend as one of the finalists in this year’s Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Pretty amazingly cool to see our name on that list of schools. Props also to Kristin Lamberty, UMM grad from 2000 and now near the end of her first year as a faculty here, for suggesting that Emily apply, and to Elena Machkasova who’s been Emily’s research mentor for most of two years.
  • Andy Korth and Jon Quarfoth just got back from Asheville, NC, where they presented research they’ve been doing with Dian Lopez at the annual National Conference on Undergraduate Education.
  • A whole bucket of UMM computing faculty and students just got back from MICS 2006 in Iowa. Andy Lopez and Elena both gave talks, as did two student (Scott Lembcke and Sam Bevier). And, to round it all off a UMM team (Scott Lembcke, Nate Fortuna, and Daniel Selifonov) came in first in the programming contest in a field of over 30 teams.

Well done everyone!

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