Can’t make it down to the SINC site to scan that document for your professor? Need to send a good quality copy of your work to your classmate? Take advantage of a tool you already have in your pocket – your smartphone! Genius Scan <https://www.thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/>, created by The Grizzly Labs,
One of the biggest problems that we as students have is keeping track of all the fascinating information that we find floating around the internet! With a book, it’s easy to circle, star, or flag important information that you need to find later, but you certainly can’t do that on
Grammarly is a free google chrome extension that checks what you write and helps you fix any mistakes you make while writing. Grammarly tracks what you write and gives you suggestions on how to improve your writing. While Google Chrome already offers an option that checks spelling, Grammarly offers the ability
Empower is a banking app that seeks to replace and consolidate all of your other banking information into a single easy to use app. It’s difficult for college age students to keep track of all of the daily expenses they have and hold onto that last $20 they have lying around
The Digital Public Library of America or DPLA connects you to libraries and museums in order to access collections for free. With DPLA you will have access to photographs, books, maps, sculptures, artwork, and other museum materials from your computer. Many topics of interest can be found inside the Exhibitions section
Desmos is a company that develops online math tools such as, graphing calculators. The goal of Desmos is to give free access to tools for math and get rid of the high costs of physical calculators, which have been somewhat of a monopoly in our time. Most popular graphing calculators haven’t improved
data.world is a website dedicated to creating and distributing datasets. With access to millions of different datasets from uses in all fields, data.world helps you to be able to create your own data and distribute it publicly to everyone, or give limited access to specific users. data.world uses a user interface that
Class Central is an online catalog of Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. These MOOCs are usually taught by universities over the internet. Some of the most popular MOOCs are; Coursera, edX, FutureLearn, and Udacity. Class Central allows you to browse through courses offered by MOOCs, and pick the ones that interest
On April 19, the final lecture of the spring 2017 University Libraries STEM Speakers Series, Dr. Anurag Purwar engaged audiences with his talk, “Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices” in the Special Collections Seminar Room, second floor of the Melville Library. Dr. Purwar discussed how task-driven mechanical motion
Artemis Primary Sources is a search engine that combines 3 different primary source databases from GALE. The purpose of this platform is to make it easier for students to research firsthand documents and information from reputable sources. They are working to build the largest database of primary sources in the country. For
