Curious about how well your phone is performing in terms of web access? Spend an hour with our STEM speaker, Dr. Aruna Balasubramanian from the Department of Computer Science to learn about “Is the Mobile Web Experience Improving?” Date/Time: Wednesday,…
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Dr. Fusheng Wang on “EyeCanDo: Eye Gaze-based Technology to Enable Communication for ALS patients”
On February 16, 2021, Dr. Fusheng Wang presented the development of his and his team’s EyeCanDo app, which is used to enable amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients to communicate freely using an eye gaze based technique. Dr. Wang discussed how…
Laptop Loan Program for Students
Now with automatic waitlist service. See waitlist procedures below Provided in partnership by University Libraries and Division of Information Technology Overview HP laptops (model HP 250 G7) and Dell laptops (model Latitude 5500) are available for borrowing. SBU students with…
Posted in Library Technology, Technology
SSO 102.23 students explore online collections: Look what they found!
This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging…
Dr. Heather Lynch on “How many Adélie penguins are there? and other mysteries solved by satellites”
On September 18, Dr. Heather Lynch, of the Department of Ecology and Evolution, presented the first lecture of the fall 2018 University Libraries STEM Speakers Series with her talk, “How many Adélie penguins are there? and other mysteries solved by…
Posted in Biology, Computer Science, Ecology and Evolution, Mathematics, Technology Tagged with: Ecology and Evolution, research, statistics
SBU Libraries and friends asked Evan everything at the Southampton campus
On Wednesday, April 11, SBU Libraries teamed up with SBU Resident Life and SBU DoIT (Division of Information Technology) to host Evan Doubleday, lead programmer analyst on the Southampton campus, for an “ask anything” session that included questions ranging from…
Unpaywall: Read Research Articles For Free
Unpaywall is a Chrome and Firefox browser extension that discovers and links to green open access manuscripts of published research and scholarly articles. Unpaywall taps into content from thousands of open-access repositories worldwide. It utilizes a number of data sources, including PubMed…
The Wonderful World of 3D Printing
We’ve installed a new tabletop display in the Southampton campus library, highlighting just some of the things you can do with 3D printing. The technology is truly amazing, having made tremendous strides in the last decade to the point where…
Posted in Southampton, Technology
Dr. Anurag Purwar on Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices
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…
University Libraries Presents: STEM Speakers Series, Dr. Anurag Purwar
The University Libraries is proud to announce its second lecture of the spring 2017 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Anurag Purwar, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University. His talk, “Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices” will…
