Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Tech Spotlight: Scopus

Scopus is a database of citations and abstracts of peer reviewed: articles, journals, and books. It offers a look into multiple fields including: humanities, science & technology, history, Medicine, and more. Scopus also has tools to help find the most comprehensive research that’s right for your needs. It is the largest

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SBU Southampton Trivia Night

Come test your wits against the rest of the Southampton campus on Tuesday, February 21st from 7-9 pm in the library. The SBU Southampton Library, along with the Student Life Office, will be hosting Trivia Night from 7-9 pm. Compete in teams to see who has what it takes – no

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Special Collections Highlights International Darwin Day

Among the rare books in Special Collections is Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published by Appleton and Company in 1897. International Darwin Day is Sunday, February 12 and commemorates the birth of Darwin in 1809.    This animated drawing of a “chimpanzee disappointed and sulky”

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Tech Spotlight: SBU Map With Useful Locations Marked

A map of Stony Brook University has been created highlighting the locations of: Bus routes, parking, printers, bus stops, dinning places, bike stations, and computer labs. This map can be useful to students both new and old, and contains everything a commuter would need to know about the campus to save time

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Tech Spotlight: Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Open Access Theses & Dissertations is an online database allowing for students to find open access to graduate Theses and Dissertations worldwide. These open access documents will be of great value to graduate students looking to do intensive research or needing help in writing their own dissertations or Theses. The OATD

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University Libraries Presents: STEM Speaker Series

The University Libraries is pleased to announce its first lecture of the spring 2017 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Dan Davis, Chair of Department of Geosciences.  His talk, “Mapping the Geology of Long Island Through Time at and Below the Surface” will be given on Thursday, February 9 from

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Tech Spotlight: American Film Scripts Online

American Film Scripts Online is a database of screenplays and scripts, most of which were never published or available to the public. This database allows for the users to look through different scripts and obtain a better sense for learning and developing screenplays and scripts of their own, as well as

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SBU Open Access Research: High impact and on the rise

SBU Research Data SBU Open Access Publishing Activity 87,621  articles published by SBU scholars and researchers, 1966 – 2015 1602, or ~2% of those articles are open access 27,628 articles published by SBU scholars and researchers, 2006 – 2015 6% of those articles are open access of the articles published in

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Tech Spotlight: Mimir

Mimir is an artificial intelligence grading tool for computer science classrooms. Mirmir supports all the essential instruction languages and helps instructors prevent cheating, grade quickly, and provide excellent feedback to students. Mirmir also helps professors keep track of student engagement and comprehension with visualizations of student scores in the instructor

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Tech Spotlight: 50 Years of Learning Technology

The Chronicle of Higher Education published a fascinating article this month about how technology has shaped higher education over the past 50 years. The article explores how students and instructors have used technology in the classroom, from the ultra expensive mini-computers of the 1960s to the ubiquitous smartphones of today.

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