Music Prof. Mary Simoni is organizing the event, which is being hosted by the School of Music.
Through workshops, seminars and demonstrations engineers will apply the latest technology to music and composers will show how they incorporate technology into their performing ensembles.
Conference highlights will include an Oct. 5 symphony band performance, featuring the world premiere of a David Jaffe electronic violin concerto.
Jennifer Barber, a sociologist at the University's Institute for Social Research, compiled a data set on 835 mother-child pairs who were studied for 31 years.
She found that daughters whose mothers preferred they marry by age 20 had their first child seven years faster than mothers who preferred their children marry at age 30.
Thirty years ago, most Americans had never touched a computer. But now many need help learning and other technologies that are becoming a part of daily life.
The project, called the Ameritech Learning Initiative, will be funded over the next five years with a $5 million grant from Ameritech.
Katherine Willis, director of program development for the School of Information, said the project is aimed at "real people who have real work they want to achieve."
PSA screening tests are used to detect prostate cancer by measuring the level of a prostate-specific antigen in the blood. The validity of previous efforts to use the test to gauge patient response to therapy was questionable.
University researchers studied 62 men with prostate cancer and found those whose PSA level declined 50 percent or more after eight weeks of chemotherapy had a significantly higher survival rate.
"The conventional wisdom is that, due to greater concerns about jobs, crime education and other 'survival' issues, black Americans are unconcerned about the environment," said SNRE associate Prof. Paul Mohai. "This study provides clear evidence that conventional wisdom is wrong."
For the study, 793 people were surveyed to identify their views on a wide range of environmental issues.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Jason Stoffer.
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