The January 23, 2012 edition of The Insider is now available.

In this edition:

• Over 700 parents, students, community leaders and school committee representatives were on hand when AU donated 48 laptops to Mansingh Dharma School in Kathmandu earlier this month.
• The Semantic Technology Laboratory in AU’s School of Computing and Information Systems partnered with Warranty Life, a technology start-up company, to develop a receipt parsing technology that will allow online shoppers to easily access a record of their purchases and warranty information.
• In the past three years, AU President Frits Pannekoek has donated nearly to $95,000 to the university. “If you don’t believe in your own institution,” he asks, “why would others?” Read more about why he gives to the university.
• Dr. Mike Sosteric, an assistant professor of sociology in Centre for Global and Social Analysis, believes that it is time to bring sociology out from behind the academic wall.

·         The Blinding Sea, a documentary film by George Tombs, an academic co-ordinator in the Centre for Integrated Studies at AU, reveals the importance of explorer Roald Amundsen’s exposure to Inuit culture.

• And the Learning Communities Project, Landing Trails Intermediate School students work with Dr. Ken Munyikwa, Arts and Science Research Talks, AU in the News, the new AU horse corral.

The next issue of The Insider will be published February 13. The deadline for submissions is February 3.