The University Libraries is very pleased to announce its third lecture of the spring 2018 STEM Speaker Series presented by Dr. Liliana M. Dávalos, Department of Ecology and Evolution. Her talk, “Extinction, extinction: how it was and how to stop it from the Miocene to today” will be given on
University Libraries will be hosting a second lecture of the Spring 2018 STEM Speaker Series given by Dr. Ya Wang from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Title: “Optically chopped PIR sensor for occupancy detection” Date/Time: March 27, 2018 from 1pm-2pm Location: Special Collections Seminar Room, E2340, second floor of
On February 13, 2018, Dr. Alexander Orlov kicked off the first STEM Speaker Series with his lecture on “How nanotechnology can save us and the environment: Making it happen in a safe way.” Dr. Orlov first introduced the old application of nanotechnology in medieval stained glass and then
The University Libraries is very pleased to announce its first lecture of the spring 2018 STEM Speaker Series presented by Dr. Alexander Orlov, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. Title: “How nanotechnology can save us and environment: Making it happen in a safe way” Date: Tuesday, February 13
On November 14, Dr. Ming-Yu Ngai presented his talk, “Visible-Light-Driven Artificial Photo-synthesis in Organic Synthesis” in the Special Collections Seminar Room of the Melville Library. To lay the background, Dr. Ngai first explained the process of photosynthesis in which chlorophyll, a green pigment in plants, absorbs sunlight and converts
The Bibliometric Workshop for Librarians, the one-day event which aimed to promote practitioner research in Library and Information Science, was held on October 6, 2017. Janet Clarke, Associate Dean, Research & User Engagement at Stony Brook University Libraries delivered a warm welcoming speech for the workshop. The workshop was
Dr. Veeramah presented “Ancient European Dog Genomes Reveal Continuity Since the Early Neolithic” for the University Libraries STEM Speakers Series on October 3, 2017. By analyzing two genomic sequences of 7,000 and 4,700 year old dog remains from two German archaeological sites, and the genetic sequence of a 4,800 year
The University Libraries is pleased to announce its third and final lecture of the fall 2017 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Ming-Yu Ngai, Department of Chemistry. Title: “Visible-Light-Driven Artificial Photo-synthesis in Organic Synthesis” Date: Tuesday, November 14 from 1pm-2pm Location: Special Collections Seminar Room, E2340, second floor of
On November 30, 2017, Reaxys will switch to new Reaxys interface and the original version will no longer be available. What is Reaxys? Reaxys is an online research solution designed to retrieve property, reaction and synthesis data from a rich collection of peer-reviewed literature, patents and substance databases. –
On September 19, Dr. Chang Kee Jung, SUNY Distinguished Professor in Physics, kicked off the first lecture of the fall 2017 University Libraries STEM Speakers Series and engaged audiences with his talk, “Capturing Innovations and Underlying Physics in Sports” in the Special Collections Seminar Room of the Melville Library.
