Month: November 2011

Introducing the Scientists with Stories Project!

There is much to be said about initiative, and the Scientists with Stories Project (SwS) is an excellent example of the best kind of initiative in academia – a bottom-up process driven entirely by students, for students. The Scientists with Stories project is the creation of an enterprising group of graduate students at Duke and…
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Cachalot iPad application in the News again!

This morning I did an interview with Brittany Edney from Time Warner Cable’s News 14 – a 24 hour cable news channel that services all of North Carolina. Brittany was really interested in the motivation behind developing the Cachalot digital textbook app and how we managed to deliver it at it’s extremely compelling price-point (free!).…
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Cachalot on Eyewitness News – WCNT 9

It was a rainy day in Beaufort today, and what better way to pass the time than doing an interview on our Cachalot app for the local CBS station – Channel 9 WNCT, Eyewitness News. I got to spend an hour or so with Sasha Horne, one of their traveling news reporters, and give her…
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