2016

Name our skeleton! Vote today!

Medical and health sciences students! Visit the Health Sciences Library to vote on a name for our skeleton model and be entered to win a raffle prize. Voting ends on 9/2, a winner will be announced on 9/12. We need your help to choose the perfect name! For more information,

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Special Collections and University Archives on Instagram

Learn about the university’s one-of-kind library collections and university history on Special Collections and University Archives’ Instagram account. Pictured here: A medieval woodcut illustration from the University Libraries’ oldest book:  Schedel, Hartmann, Anton Koberger, Michael Wohlgemuth, and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.  Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. Photograph, Stony Brook Long Island Rail Road Station.

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Tech Spotlight: Griti

Griti is a micro-tutoring platform that delivers videos for your particular school, course, and even instructor, created by past students who got an A. Griti is currently active on 52 campuses including many Ivy League and State Universities. Students with accounts can access content from all universities, so the site

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Tech Spotlight: Yewno

Yewno is a next gen discovery system that works with the full text of libraries’ licensed content to return sophisticated results based on ideas rather than metadata and keywords. The system draws on a huge corpus of materials drawn from research universities, publishers, and aggregators and focuses on the relationships

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Greetings from Long Island: Digitized Postcards

View more than 100 of Special Collections’ digitized postcards of Long Island. Dating from the late 1800s, this curated collection of postcards depict scenes spanning from Far Rockaway to Montauk. The collection was donated by Cornell Jaray in the 1980s. For more information about the department’s extensive Long Island collections,

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Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival July 31-August 28, 2016

As a gentle rain poured over eastern Long Island early Sunday evening, a packed sanctuary of concertgoers at Bridgehampton’s Presbyterian Church reveled in Alan Alda’s delightful readings of excerpts from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s letters, interspersed with top-notch performances of the composer’s chamber works K. 13, 285, 548 and 493 by

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Tech Spotlight: Visible Body 3D Anatomy Online

Visible Body has traditionally been a desktop application that allows students to view and manipulate different parts of the human anatomy to help them focus on specific organ systems and learn at their own pace. Recently, Visible Body has gone mobile! Students can now download the App using the institutional

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