On February 12th, the University Libraries welcomed scholars from English, History, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to present the talks they’d given at the Modern Language Association and American Historical Association conferences held in January. Many thanks to all…
Special Collections and University Archives honored by Three Village Historical Society
University Libraries is delighted to announce that the Three Village Historical Society has honored Special Collections and University Archives with the Kate Wheeler Strong Memorial Award. This Award is “in recognition of significant contributions toward the fostering of interest in local history and a…
Librarian Gisele Schierhorst’s Scholarly Article Published in American Music Research Center Journal
Gisele Schierhorst, Head of the Music Library at Stony Brook University, has authored a comprehensive history of an important, yet under-documented orchestra established on Long Island with roots here at Stony Brook University. The article entitled “The Suffolk Symphonic Orchestra and Society…
New Timeline Chronicles the 40th Anniversary of SBU Hospital
A new timeline, which includes information drawn from historical papers and photographs from the University Archives, chronicles the history of Stony Brook Medicine. In 1980, Stony Brook University Hospital first opened its doors and became the region’s first academic medical center. Stony Brook…
My Research Life with Kiara Thomas
My Research Life is a blog series of interviews with Stony Brook people about how and where they do their research. Today’s interview was conducted by librarian Chris Filstrup. Kiara Thomas is a junior journalism major and Africana studies minor.…
Dr. Steven Skiena on “Representing Knowledge through Word and Graph Embeddings”
On February 11, 2020, Dr. Steven Skiena presented the first Spring STEM Lecture at the University Libraries about the useful representation of word and graph embeddings in data science. Dr. Skiena presented his work in an easy to understand way.…
Posted in About Us Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Date Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning
Call for Artists: Spring 2020 Student Art Show
The Stony Brook University Fine Arts Organization is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2020 Student Art Show at Melville Library! Accepted works will be displayed in the North and Central Reading Rooms. Guidelines: Open to undergrad and grad students…
Posted in Art, Arts & Humanities
STEM Speaker Series: “Representing Knowledge through Word and Graph Embeddings” with Dr. Steven Skiena
Interested in word and graph embeddings? Spend an hour with our STEM speaker, Dr. Steven Skiena from the Department of Computer Science, to learn about “Representing Knowledge through Word and Graph Embeddings.” Date/Time: Tuesday, February 11 from 1pm-2pm Location: Special…
My Research Life: Nava Berger
My Research Life is a blog series of interviews with Stony Brook people about how and where they do their research. Today, librarian Chris Filstrup talks with Nava Berger, a senior and Political Science and History double major. She is…
Sharpen Your Research Skills with a Health Sciences Workshop
There are a variety of workshops being offered over the next several months by your Health Sciences Librarians. The library’s new SEARCH tool was the topic of today’s workshop by Jamie Saragossi. If you missed it, check out the SEARCH…
Posted in Health Sciences Library Tagged with: APA Style, data management, EndNote, health sciences, PubMed, Transgender Health
