This week, the President, his wife and Oprah Winfrey are making a trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to lobby the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Summer Games to their shared hometown of Chicago. This is the very first time a US president has personally lobbied the IOC for this purpose. Continue reading… Obamas and Oprah Stump for Chi-Town Games
This week, the President, his wife and Oprah Winfrey are making a trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to lobby the International Olympic Committee to bring the 2016 Summer Games to their shared hometown of Chicago. This is the very first time a US president has personally lobbied the IOC for this purpose. Continue reading… 
It keeps your pooch or pootie from freaking out at “back to school” time. According to Betsy Saul, founder of petfinder.com (link below the fold), back to school time frequently means empty houses once students return to classes and parents return to focus on work. Man’s best friend can often feel left in the lurch and anxious. Details over the fold. 
With passions running so high in the healthcare debate, and with so many powerful forces trying to manipulate the process to suit their own agendas, it gets really hard to believe anything we hear. How does one separate the truth from the lies, the policy positions from the propaganda, the facts from the noise? Let me tell you of an excellent resource for cutting through the static and getting some answers from reputable sources.
This is an open thread for Allen School Alumni to gather, get back in touch, share post-graduation experiences and more. Topic of discussion is open to all users. Begin your conversations in the comments section. 
I probably don’t need to tell people who juggle online studies, work and family that it is important to make sure you carve out enough time for sleep. We all know how spacey and “out of it” we feel when we miss sleep. Sleep deprivation can be very dangerous. Yet, recently, UCLA professor and sleep expert, Jerome Siegel questioned whether sleep had any correlation to physiological and neural functions. In short, do we really need to sleep? 
Allen School’s brick and mortar campuses are in the greater New York Metro area. So many of us in this community are well aware of the logistics of getting around in one of the world’s most densely populated areas. But if you live in any major city, you know what it is like to drive or take transit during peak hours. It ain’t pretty! 
Whether you’re doing research for your studies, recalling your most favorite Saturday Night Live skit or wishing you had some great Maceo Parker music to listen to while you’re studying, you will be glad to learn of the Internet Archive. Let me share with you, one of my most favorite online resources. 
The field of online study has grown in the last decade as the convenience of online education has attracted more students with the flexibility that traditional brick-and-mortar institutions cannot offer. Yet, with greater freedom comes greater responsibility. Here are four tips on how to optimize your online educational experience. 
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