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Internal Faculty Research Grants
In-house sources of funding exist to encourage and strengthen scholarly activity and foster a community of scholars across disciplines at Harvey Mudd. Promoting faculty professional development, internal grants also couple research and education, and enhance experiential learning on campus.
Funding Categories
Reviewed by the Faculty Research Committee
- Beckman Endowment funds
- The Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Summer Research Fellowships (includes a $1250 stipend or discretionary funds for faculty).
- The Sherman Fairchild Foundation Summer Research Fellowships (includes funding for supplies/travel and $1,000 for faculty)
- The Fletcher Jones Foundation Summer Research Fellowships (includes $2,000 for supplies/travel related to the research project)
Reviewed by Special Groups with Separate Requests for Proposals
- Rasmussen Summer Research Fund for environmental projects
- Presidential strategic initiative projects
- HHMI projects
- Shanahan endowment for student-originated projects
General Eligibility for Grant Opportunities
Projects must involve at least one Harvey Mudd faculty member who is a full-time regular appointee. Proposals for joint research projects are accepted if at least one of the participants is a full-time regular Harvey Mudd faculty member. Only full-time Harvey Mudd College faculty are eligible for stipend support. Though some internally funded programs allow for summer faculty stipends, no one may receive more than one faculty stipend from internally funded programs in any given summer. Moreover, no one may ask for an internally funded stipend in addition to any externally funded stipend. Funds for faculty stipends, while available, are quite limited given the general emphasis on supporting students. These funds are not available for course development.
For faculty who received previous internal funding, consideration of a new proposal will be contingent on the receipt of the final report describing the funded project..
Unless a final report has been submitted prior to the submission of a new proposal, the proposal will be returned without review. Proposals that do not follow the instructions will be returned without review.
Beckman Endowment and General Support Research Grants
Proposals for Beckman Endowment and general support research grants are reviewed and recommended for funding by Harvey Mudd's Faculty Research Committee. In recent years, the Beckman Endowment has provided in annual support for six to eight projects.
Rasmussen Summer Research Fund
The Rasmussen Summer Research Fund supports student and faculty research in the area of environmental sustainability. Funding is for student research, but a proposal may be initiated either by a faculty member or by a student with a confirmed faculty advisor.
HHMI Collaborative Research Grants in Computational Biology
The Harvey Mudd College grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) provides resources to support collaborative research projects in computational biology. Harvey Mudd faculty are invited to apply for funding in accord with the following guidelines:
- The faculty investigators must include at least one person who is a member of the Harvey Mudd biology or computer science departments and at least one other person who is from:
- a different department or
- a different perspective within a discipline (e.g. a computational bioinformaticist and an experimental molecular biologist).
- The proposal should clearly describe the project's relevance to computational biology and how each investigator will contribute to the project.
- The project should include the meaningful participation of undergraduate students, preferably in teams comprising students from different disciplines.
- The proposal should describe how the HHMI grant might lead to potential future extramural funding, and report progress if previously funded through this program.
Requests for funding should be submitted to Prof. Catherine McFadden, director of the HHMI program, at the start of the spring semester. Please follow these format guidelines:
In one concise paragraph, state the importance of the project, the originality of the approach and the expected outcome of the research project if successful.
The proposal should addressL
- the objective(s);
- rationale;
- significance of the collaboration, and;
- experimental aims. Please also include;
- a budget and budget justification, and;
- a two-page CV for each faculty collaborator.
Items 1 to 4 are limited to five pages of single-spaced text, including charts and illustrations.
The proposal may request funding for the following purposes:
- support for one or more students for the 10-week summer research period;
- consumable supplies or small equipment items;
- a faculty stipend or discretionary fund. Student stipends are normally $4,000 plus $354 (8.85 percent) to cover FICA. Awards will not typically exceed $10,000. Please address each line-item of the budget in your budget justification.
This information may be revised. Interested parties are advised to contact Prof. McFadden before applying at firstname.lastname@example.com or 909.607.4107.
Strategic Vision Funding
As announced by President Maria Klawe each semester, funds are available to groups or individuals who have ideas that would advance one or more of the College's six Strategic Vision themes. An online application is required.


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The Borax Experiment
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Sound designers often rely on bigger sounding objects to support visuals. For example vegetables are heavily used for snaps and crunches for their natural sound and its rich texture.
I've always wanted to find a good substitute for meat that could emulate its goriness, so I decided to record and document the "Borax Experiment". I believe the result could be considered an overkill: the composite lasts for days, it can be torn apart and easily reassembled and, most of all, its sound can be controlled by simply adding water.
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Utah Senator Mike Lee proposes revamping the federal tax code in a way only conservatives could love.
His "Family Fairness and Opportunity Tax Reform Act" would not actually fix the nation's financial woes, but it does successfully blend failed conservative pipe-dreams and pandering in a way that is sure to appeal to the base. It deserves to fall on the trash heap of other conservative tax plans if for no other reason than it would force single and childless Americans to provide even greater subsidies for couples who choose to reproduce.
Lee's plan has plenty of moving parts intended to simplify the tax system, but its marketable centerpiece is a new $2,500-per child tax credit, regardless of income. That would come on top of the existing $1,000-per child credit.
His bill likely won't go far in the Democrat-controlled Senate. It includes too many things progressives oppose, not the least of which is repealing taxes associated with Obamacare. Yet pieces could find their way into ongoing budget negotiations, and lawmakers do so love to look like they support children and families.
Tax credits are not free. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are 74 million American children. If the parents of each claim the tax credit, it would cost federal coffers $184 billion. The nation already runs in the red. If the plan is to avoid falling even deeper down the debt hole, someone would need to make up that sort of shortfall, and that someone would have to be everyone else – the people without kids.
That probably suits Lee and social conservatives just fine. After all, they get to penalize all those college-educated, urban, liberal elites who are statistically less likely to have lots of children.
It also would directly transfer funds from blue states to red states. More households have children in states that went for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney than in states that went for Barack Obama. It is only a single percentage point more, but when we're talking about millions of households, that percentage point represents a lot of tax credits, and increasing. Birth rates also run higher in the red states, and they have more kids per household.
Lee's home state of Utah would benefit the most. The portion of homes with kids there is greater than in any other state. Red Texas and Alaska are a distant second and third. Lee himself has three children worth $7,500 per year under his proposal.
The political appeal is easy for most conservative lawmakers. "I fought for Uncle Sam to take money away from liberals and give it to wholesome families like yours," is not a bad slogan for a GOP candidate seeking reelection.
Such state welfare is nothing new. Prosperous blue states have been subsidizing red ones for a long time. This particular wealth transfer differs only in that toe-faced children provide cover.
Having children is a choice, one that many Americans joyfully embrace. As a society, we provide considerable support to them with schools, little league programs, playgrounds and other services that single and childless taxpayers wind up paying for even though they don't use them.
Broader community benefits justify those investments. Schools create an educated populace. Sports programs and playgrounds encourage a healthier one. That's good for everyone. A straight-up handout is something else, though. It is not as if people need convincing to have kids. They do that just fine. Babies are born all the time, one every 8 seconds according to the Census Bureau.
The American family is evolving in ways that scare traditionalists who want everyone to pair off as husband and wife and multiply. Fewer people marry today, those who do tend to wait longer and have fewer children. That trend is strongest among better-educated, wealthier Americans. They make a choice, and so do (most) parents.
If the reason someone chooses to have a child is a tax credit, that person's priorities are seriously out of whack.
Christian Trejbal is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Opinion Journalists and chair of the Open Government Committee. Overcoming graduate degrees in philosophy, he worked as an editorial writer at The (Bend) Bulletin and The Roanoke Times for more than a decade. In 2013, he and his wife moved to Portland, Ore., where he writes freelance and provides public policy analysis. Or, as his wife prefers to say, he is a stay-at-home dude. Follow him on Twitter @ctrejbal.
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Slow Bar533 SE Grand Ave. Portland, OR 97214 Southeast Portland & near Downtown Portland
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Raucous, stylish, party-people clubhouse has been a bar of the moment for years now. Adjoining My Father's Place in the heart of industrial southeast but just moments from downtown, with serious bar cuisine and wine list as well-selected as the punk-fueled juke, a steady stream of Portland's most beautiful trickle through the narrow corridor 'tween stainless-steel bar and large custom booths made for hopping.
Open 11:30am-2:30am, every day.
Open 364 days/year (closed New Year's Day).
$1 off all drinks/beer, $3.50-$7 menu, 3-6pm, M-F.
Slow Bar's Hours of Operation
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Slow Bar's Happy Hours
|3pm-6pm $1 off all drinks/beer, $3.50-$7 menu, 3-6pm.
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|3pm-6pm $1 off all drinks/beer, $3.50-$7 menu, 3-6pm.
|3pm-6pm $1 off all drinks/beer, $3.50-$7 menu, 3-6pm.
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Go here for the burger, if nothing else. This is not a bar I would normally hang out in, just cuz it ain't my scene, but that burger?? Goddamn that burger...
slow bar is the shit. the food is ALWAYS awesome. they always remember what i want to drink & the bar & bartenders have wicked good asthetics/stlye.
. . . And that is a beautiful thing. Always a great spot to drink. Maybe the most comfortable bar in Portland.
All of the old Vic's Willamette View crowd can be found here if you time it right. Stiff drinks, great food & a jukebox that has D.I.! What more could you ask for?
This place rocks thanks to Rob and Mikey's bar wisdom.They took what the late great Maston Simmons instilled in them at Vic's Tavern,and pimped it up couple notches w/ some swank,while maintaining it comfortably for all of us dirtbags.Super fuck yeah,gentleman!Oh....and AAron,K-Fed says hi.....
The drinks are strong, happy hours is great, nice feel, music is perfect. All the hype, well it's just got all the right things in porportion. Other than that not unusual or very intresting really. Great for after work though. Oh but next time please don't leave me dry for so long.
How does a gay guy suck off straight dudes? They had a blast in a camry? I'm no expert, but that kinda sounds gay. This place rox! Great drinks, awesome food, friendly staff and parking lot suckoffs!
This bar is great! I'm a gay guy and I like to go to str8 bars and pick up on str8 guys. I found a cute skinhead boy that went back to my toyota and let me pleasure him orally. We had a blast! I will definitly go back!!
good tunes indeed...and yes you can get your sex on there for sure thanks to the private bedroom style booths...the rest is a secret....shhhh...
Kick ass bar owned by the old bartender of VIC'S tavern. deff tattoed hipster bar. Also has a great juke box to. weel recamended that you chec kthi place out.
but mostly i like the searededed (yes that's how i spell it) tuna salad. it makes me smiley. like smiley. except i don't say dog as much as him. i say tuna.
Slow bar is the shit, it's got great staff and a more portland feel to it, it doesn't feel like im walking into a singles bar or a northwest fag bar, the sort of place that makes you wanna drink and call all your friends out to have a round even on monday or tuesday.
Slow Bar has a week selection of liquor. They need to bring in some of the new brands that are out ther.
The service is most always great, but it's too smoky to stay for long if you don't participate. The place looks pretty cool (dark and lots of exposed brick) and the food is always excellent. One of the 3 best burgers in town. The juke box is a little bit Motorhead for my tastes, but if that your style it's fully loaded.
I love the slow bar, it's intimate enough for a date, lively enough for a group of friends to have fun, excellent music choices in jukebox. It's decorated like it should be a pretentious, scenester bar but it is not. Owner and staff are friendly, attentive and I feel welcome and comfortable every single time.
As a decidedly not cool person, I have to say that I am always treated well there. Additionally, Slow Bar has the best burger in Portland and serves the best Manhattan. What is the "stiffness" rating for anyway?
This place has the best happy hour menu! You must have the salad. It is incredibly good. The pizza makes my mouth water. The staff, totally awesome. Atmosphere is terrific. Love the Slow Bar!
I don't see how anybody can complain about the Slow Bar. Not 'Vern enough for you pretentious jackasses? Bartenders are all cool. The place looks sweet. Beer is cold. Drinks are good. Food is good. Stop bitching and go there.
Love these boys - the booths are cool but don't lead to social interaction. check the website:www.slowbar.net
Great music, good beer, two plasma HD TV's and a bacon cheeseburger that will blow your mind.
YEEEE-HAAAAAA! Ride your momma on down to the liver-twistinest trough ever! This western-gone-New Jersey-honky-tonk themed bar's got more overly-rouged faced, fringed mini-skirt wearin bar-gals than you can shake yer stick at. Ain't yer game? Try out the mecha-bull located in the rest rooms for a undy-bunchin' scream (only a penny)! Drinks ain't half bad neither, no sir! From the strychnine snake-bite to the vermouth hammock, there's more than one way to wake up pregnant tomorrow after ya danced a while at this here place! Speakin' of dancin' I'ma gunna do it all over ya grandmamma's grave! YEEEE-HAAAAAA!
k-before i thought ick and now i say YES! i'm a fan. i frequent here on my way home from work and eat the burg. YUM! i believe they also are a sponsor of The Famous Mysterious Actor. Does this still ring true? If so, its quite the hot spot during/after the show.
Slow Bar is awesome. They have everything from Slayer to Blondie in the jukebox, Guinness and PBR on tap, and it's a nice, clean facility. Good Stuff.
Dont listen to Captain Marlowe, he gets salty every time we come to port. Now we share an RV that we have dug into some clay soil by an abandoned mine in Drain, Oregon, where we make methamphetamines in the bathtub. Captain Marlowe has been talking all about Slow Bar this week because of the fumes, wearing nothing but a linen curtain and singing melancholic Edith Piaf songs in an off-key falsetto. He is sleeping now.
loud and obnoxious, yet stark and sterile, lacking warmth in ambience. More tired-looking 30 year old kids with tattoos on their necks. Very postmodern in a sense that it fails to faciliate socialization, but isolates everyone there. Good food, relatively friendly staff, good drink menu. "Rock" of yesteryear. Altogether fragmented at best. Just goes to show how Portland loves to drink, but still cant have one perfect drinking hole. Boycott the dives,leave the clubs for the manequins and be sure to bathe properly after visiting any hippie hangout on Hawthorne. Yawn.
this is by far the coolest bar in p-town. the juke box kills it. the bar tenders rock and the space is very hip. chicks in designer jeans and dudes with tatoos. hot.
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Top 10 web performance killersPosted Jul 7, 2016 | 5 min. (975 words)
1. Uncompressed static assets on the server
Gzip will reduce your file transfer speed from your server to the browser – one of the biggest web performance killers.
When a user hits your website, a call is made to your server to deliver the requested files. The bigger these files are, the longer it takes for them to get to your browser and appear on the screen.
Gzip compresses your web pages and stylesheets before sending them over to the browser. Compression drastically reduces transfer time since the files are much smaller (up to 70% file size reduction).
Regarding cost versus benefit, Gzip compression should be near the top of your page speed optimizations if you don't have it setup already.
2. Uncompressed CSS and JavaScript
Minification will reduce the size of a CSS or JavaScript file and removes all unnecessary characters from code while maintaining its functionality.
Minifying CSS and JavaScript:
- Removes whitespace, comment, and unused code
- Optimizes conditional expressions
- Shortens variable and function names
- Obfuscates production code
Minification also reduces network latency (the time it takes for data packets to get from one point to another), leading to faster browser load times.
To minify stylesheets, try CSSNano and csso. CSSNano can be integrated into your workflow as a plugin for postcss.
To minify JavaScript, try UglifyJS2. You can also utilize UglifyJS in your workflow through the Grunt plugin, or Gulp plugins like gulp-uglify or gulp-source maps.
3. Non-optimized images
Images on a page can be optimized to reduce their file size without impacting the quality. (We do a deep dive into this here.)
A large number of websites use images, and images usually account for most of the downloaded data on a page. Optimizing images is one of the easiest ways to increase page performance.
Ways to optimize images:
- Lossless compression
- Convert images into web-appropriate file types
- Remove some of the image data without compromising the quality
- Reduce the white space around images
- Save images in appropriate dimensions
4. Not leveraging browser caching
5. Too many redirects
6. Invalid HTML and CSS
Writing HTML and CSS which complies with the W3C standards means that it will be interpreted consistently by modern browsers.
Invalid HTML can slow down page load as the browser has to do the unnecessary processing.
Invalid CSS can slow down the rendering time of a page.
Run your HTML through the W3C HTML Validator and CSS through the W3C CSS validator.
Alternatively, you can incorporate HTML validation into your workflow with the Grunt HTML validation package and Stylelint.
7. Old-school tech
Avoid using old technologies like Flash, Java, and Silverlight in the browser.
Most mobile devices do not support plugins, such as Flash. Plugins are also the leading cause of crashes and security incidents on pages that utilize them.
Plugins are legacy technology. Create content using native web technologies to ensure compatibility with all devices and browsers.
8. Not leveraging HTML features
There are a few simple HTML5 features which can help to improve performance:
Add async tag to scripts
<script src="async-example.js" async></script>
Avoid setting charset in metatag
Specifying the charset in the meta tag disables the lookahead downloader in IE8. Disabling the lookahead downloader can increase the page load time.
Setting a charset in the HTTP Content-Type response header in HTML files allows the browser to start loading HTML and scripts immediately. This method also sets the charset for every page.
Here's how to configure the default charset in the popular servers:
In Apache:
Add the following line to your .htaccess file in the root directory:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Then restart your Apache server.
In nginx:
Add the charset to the server block:
server {
# ... other server config...
charset utf-8;
Then reload nginx config.
In IIS:
Open IIS > MIME types.
Set the .html MIME type to text/html; charset=UTF-8:
Then restart your website.
9. Synchronous JavaScript blocking the page load
<script> tags just before the closing
</body> tag to make sure they don't block parallel downloads.
10. Slow server response
A slow server is the most complex performance killer, and unfortunately, there's no easy fix for this!
All you can do is identify and fix bugs in your server-side code – the faster the server response time, the faster your website or application will be.
That's it for the top 10 web performance killers
Do you have any more? Let us know in the comments below.


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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------20431200942618 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii gopher://gopher.bio.net:70/0R176113-177459-/AUDIOLOGY/current > From BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri Dec 22 14:04:12 1995 > Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST > Received: (from daemon at localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA27676; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:04:12 -0800 > Received: (from news at localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA27672; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:04:10 -0800 > To: audiolog at net.bio.net > From: dgdelage at ix.netcom.com (David G. Delage) > Subject: Re: MADSEN'S AURICAL > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 22:00:48 GMT > Message-ID: <4bf9pi$1v0 at ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-por-nh1-03.ix.netcom.com > X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Dec 22 2:00:18 PM PST 1995 > X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 > > ctb1954 at aol.com (CTB1954) wrote: > > >DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH MADSEN'S AURICAL COMPUTER DOCKING > >STATION COMBINATION AUDIOMETER , AND HEARING AID ANALYSIS SYSTEM? i LIKE > >ITS FEATURES BUT A LIST PRICE OF OVER $17,000 SEEMS QUITE STEEP. IT'S ONLY > >BEEN OUT FOR LESS THAN A YEAR. WOULD APPRECIATE HEARING FROM ANYONE WHO > >HAS TAKEN THE PLUNGE. PLEASE E-MAIL ME DIRECTLY. > >ctb1954 at aol.com > > I haven't actually seen Aurical in person (or whatever), but I know it > is NOT a docking station, just a platform to rest the computer on. It > is controlled by the RS-232 (COM) port of the computer, which, in > general, translates to s-l-o-w. In addition, it has the additional > speed overhead required for saving its data in Noah. > > -Dave > >I can tell you what I know about Aurical and I don't agree that it is slow. The speed of ithe operation like with all applications= , depends on the speed of the computer. I just purchased one which includes NOAH, HIPRO, an audiometer (which does both SPL and HL a= udiograms, Real Ear loudness mapping (choice of methods), Real ear analysis, hearing aid analysis, Hearing clinic windows based soft= ware for database management AND A FREE COMPUTER!! Purchase price-$14,500! I make NO payments until April 1996 and they financed it= for 24 months NO INTEREST!! The system is portable for easy mobility when you go to more than one location like I do and I don't h= ave to compromise test capabilities. It may sound like alot of $$ but try to buy even three of the components separately-HECK I bou= ght ReSound's first programmer for $5,000 and their second one for $3,000 just so I could dispense THEIR PRODUCT. With NOAH and HIP= RO on the Aurical, I can dispense any/all NOAH compatible hearing aids I desire just by buying the company's software (around $200).= By using the Hearing Clinic database, I'll be able to keep all of my patient information, including test results, purchases...etc.= all in one place. I'm excited to have it. PLS ---------------------------------20431200942618 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain