http://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal.html

This is an interesting video from TED, if you're not familiar with TED talks yet you should check it out! The speaker in this video John Bohannon is a scientist and a writer who runs the annual "Dance Your Ph.D" Contest for Science journal where Ph.D students compete to use dancers to explain their thesis in lieu of a traditional power point presentation. In this video he makes his argument why dance is a better media to engage an audience. It's a great example of melding the arts with academics and how it's mutually beneficial. I thought the creative campus was a great next topic to follow the creative economy. The creative campus is a program that makes the arts central to academic learning, so instead of separating arts into it's own category the arts are melded with all other academics. The University of Iowa's Hancher Auditorium was one of the recipients of funding from the Creative Campus Innovations Program. You can read about that project by clicking the link below!

http://www.creativecampus.org/projects/university-of-iowa

-Tine, VP Camaraderie