November 19, 2009
Brian Coppola is Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year
Brian Coppola, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Read the full article in the University Record Update.
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November 17, 2009
Celebrating 150 years of Darwin!
2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, one of the most influential biologists of the 19th century, and the 150th anniversary of his landmark publication, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The Shapiro Science Library celebrates these events with a special book display on Darwin and the theory of evolution.
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November 11, 2009
Please take our quick survey
The Science Library wants to know what you think about us! What do you like about our resources and services? What do you wish we were doing? Click here to take a short survey and let us know how we're doing!
Stable link | Posted by betsywil at 09:05 AM
November 10, 2009
Daniel Forger (Math) Quoted in New York Times
From today's University Record Update:
Daniel Forger, an associate professor of mathematics, spoke with The New York Times about a software program he is helping to develop that could help people take actions to alleviate jet lag.
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Stable link | Posted by betsywil at 02:48 PM
October 29, 2009
ACS Symposium Series Now Online
The University Library now has online access to the American Chemical Society Symposium Series. We have fulltext access to volumes in the ACS Symposium series dating to 1974, with coverage planned back to 1950. Access is active now at http://pubs.acs.org/series/symposium
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October 27, 2009
Shapiro Library Screening Room Open for Business
Our new Screening Room celebrated its grand opening on Tuesday, October 27, with movie-style refreshments and very interesting talks by historians Jonathan Marwil and Martin Pernick on their use of film in teaching.
The Screening Room features a multimedia projector and surround sound and supports a wide range of media formats. You can reserve it to screen films for courses, films you have created, and more.
Read more about the Screening Room. And watch for future events - like Halloween movies.
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