Thursday, September 24, 2015

Great way to start the day.

›
Sent to me by my wonderful colleague Linda Edwards ( here ).  Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The power of a great teacher.

›
This lovely WSJ essay about a great teacher ( here ) triggered a couple of thoughts: (1) I still believe that it's possible (and more...
1 comment:
Monday, September 07, 2015

Two great ways to start the week:

›
Here and here .
Monday, August 31, 2015

A good reason to be proud of the University of Houston Law Center (10th anniversary of doing something very good).

›
See here .
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Hooray for Judge Phyllis Frye!

›
Front page of the New York Times ( here )!  I've known Judge Frye for around 15 years, and she and her wife Trish are lovely, warm, wic...

Tale of a customer service fail (GrubHub)

›
Last night, we decided to order in and catch up on some shows, so I did what I often do when I'm out of town--order from GrubHub.  I ord...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Banality of hate (repost, with a comment).

›
Professor LeRoy makes an important point about failing to realize the precursors to evil ( here ).  By staying silent when evil occurs , we ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Proudest moment of my time at UHLC.

›
I had so many good times at UHLC, including (surprisingly enough) the post-Tropical Storm Allison time, when everyone at the law school -- i...

So proud of UNLV's Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering!

›
If you ever want to see the value of research in action, watch this clip .  Thanks to Professors Brendan O'Toole and Mohamed Trabia and ...
Friday, August 07, 2015

I'm not a ConLaw person, but ...

›
I'm really not a ConLaw person--you can tell that from my law school transcript--but I think that there is a difference between saying s...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The world lost a mensch.

›
My old friend, Seymour Serebnick, just passed away.  I loved his boundless curiosity and his deep generosity of spirit.  He knew of my lo...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Just a couple of thoughts on ASARCO.

›
I think that the dissent was closer to being right than the majority opinion was ( of course I think so:  I was one of four folks on this ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

BRAVO, Team DRC-Hubo @UNLV!

›
Taken directly from our announcement--couldn't have written it better myself: On behalf of Dean Rama Venkat, the Howard R. Hughes Col...
1 comment:
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Wishing Professor Paul Oh and his team the best of luck in the DARPA Robotics Challenge!

›
Not that very long ago, UNLV was lucky enough to persuade Professor Paul Oh to join our faculty.  He and his team are about to compete in t...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Interesting new scholarship on academic freedom and social media.

›
See here .  My buddy Michael LeRoy , who does very cool work, wrote it. 
Monday, May 04, 2015

The Dave Goldbergs of the world may be rare, but they're out there.

›
Everything I've read about Dave Goldberg, including this New York Times obituary , indicates that he was an extraordinary person, and m...
Friday, May 01, 2015

Best managerial advice ever (UPDATED).

›
There's a great article by Paula Krebs in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education's Vitae section ( here ).  In it, she talks...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Want to change a student's life?

›
One way to do it is to fund awards like this one , this one , or this one .

Most of us know people who have or had struggled with cancer.

›
And this book is one such journey (with a very happy ending):  all of us who know Geoff and Autumn Berman were pulling for them as Geoff be...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

R.I.P., Betty Willis.

›
An icon who created icons .