Joomla! Magazine Spotlights MSIT program director
The July 2010 edition of Joomla! Community Magazine has an article about the Joomla! New England User Group founded by Jen Kramer, program director of the Master of Science in Information Technologies.
Summer 2010 Capstone Fair is on Saturday, July 10
On Saturday, July 10 from 12:00-3:00pm, students will present their Capstone Projects in a free, public fair. Visitors are encouraged to talk with the students about their projects and to critique them, providing the future graduates with objective, supportive feedback that will lead to further refinements.
This Capstone Fair will feature students from the Master of Science in Information Technologies, Master of Science in Management and the Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology programs. Sponsoring organizations include the Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative, the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, Lynde Motorsports, Asnuntuck Community College and the Hogback Mountain Gift Shop.
The Marlboro College YouTube channel features videos of students discussing their projects at previous Capstone Fairs.
Andrea Tarr Contributes Accessible Administrator Templates to Joomla 1.6
The Marlboro College Graduate School is very proud of current student Andrea Tarr (MSIT '10, expected) and her contributions to the Joomla open source content management system.
Andy took her first course at the Grad School in January 2009, when she enrolled in Jen Kramer's Web Applications course. Having immediately been hooked by Joomla's ease of use, she became a full-time student and applied to the 2009 Google Summer of Code project. The GSoC, as it is known, pays a student and an advisor to work on an open source project for a summer term.
Andy was assigned the task of developing a fully accessible administrator template for Joomla. The administrator template is the interface one uses for making changes to a Joomla website. Accessibility means that this interface is usable by anyone, including those who are unable to use a mouse or a keyboard in the standard ways. Accessible websites are frequently required by government agencies and by major corporations.
Andy put many hours into developing this template, and in April 2010, she was informed that it would be included in Joomla's new version, Joomla 1.6.
The Graduate School is thrilled that Andy has created an interface that is accessible to those with disabilities, as well as furthering the sustainability of the Joomla project. We look forward to her future contributions as a new alumna as well.
Watch a video of Andrea presenting her accessible administrator templates at the Joomla! Developer's Conference in New York City from December 6, 2009.
Read Andrea's student profile.
Ariane Krumholz Appointed Program Director for MSM-HCA
We are delighted to introduce Ariane Krumholz as the new director of our Master of Science in Management - Health Care Administration program. Ariane's impressive background as well as her long association with - and affection for - Marlboro College make her an outstanding choice. Ariane comes to Marlboro College Graduate School with almost 3 decades of senior health care management experience. She is a Middlebury College graduate, and earned her MSPH (Master of Science in Public Health) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Read her full bio on the press release.
2010 CMS Expo, Chicago
Faculty, students and alumni of the Master of Science in Information Technologies (MSIT) program gathered for a group photo at the 2010 CMS Expo, held in Chicago on May 3-5. MSIT program director Jen Kramer was the Joomla! Core CMS track leader, while adjunct professor Barb Ackemann led two sessions on Joomla template design.
(Back row, L to R: Barb Ackemann, MSIT '06; Jen Kramer, ISM '01; Bernice Singley, MSIT '08; Heidi Stanclift, MSIT '08. Front row, L to R: Andy Tarr, MSIT '10 (expected); the happy open source penguin; Gwen Ames, MSIT '09).
Deb Partrick Named BMH Employee of the Year
Congratulations to MSM-HCA student Deb Partrick for being named Employee of the Year at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. Deb is the nurse manager for the hospital's birthing center. For her capstone project, she developed a nurse mentoring program that helps integrate new staff.
MBA Student's Green Energy Essay Making the Rounds
Back in February 2009, MBA student Larry Furman wrote a guest blog for Businessweek entitled, Green Energy: Our Future Depends On It that was recently republished in a number of places:
- Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's Energy Task Force
- Physics Today
- Solar Feeds News and Commentary
- Geoff Bailey's Push Pickens Plan blog
Read more from Larry at his own Popular Logistics blog
Interview with Wangari Maathai
Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai visited Brattleboro in 2009 and Bill Baue, communications professor for the MBA in Managing for Sustainability, scored an interview with her for his program on Sea Change Radio.
Alledia Interviews Barrie North
The leading organization in Joomla training and Joomla search engine optimization interviews Barrie North, the adjunct professor of the Marketing 2.0 course offered in Marlboro's Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) program.
MBA program featured on Vermont Public Radio
VPR's Susan Keese visited with students, faculty and staff in the Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability program over two weekend intensives.
For more information, contact the Marlboro College public relations office at 802-251-7644 or pr@marlboro.edu.
