Tuesday, October 16th 3pm-4:30pm – Lecture Hall 6, Health Sciences Center Antonija Prelec (1961) Antonija Prelec accepted the challenge of creating a Health Sciences Library at Stony Brook University in 1974. She worked passionately over the next 26 years to…
Dr. Elena Davidiak on Raising and Educating Bilingual Children
Dr. Elena Davidiak (Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature) presented her research on early childhood bilingualism, with a specific emphasis on challenges and strategies for parents and educators. Sharing her own experience as a researcher and as the mother of…
Posted in Arts & Humanities, Education
Revisiting the Beat Scene
The Southampton Library wrapped up its fall Art in Focus lecture series with Elena Prohaska Glinn speaking about The Beat Scene (Reel Art Press). This book presents photographs taken by her late husband, Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. The photos capture…
Posted in Art, Writing and Literature
Matt Gallagher, Army Veteran and Author, visits SBU
On October 4th, Matt Gallagher spent the day at Stony Brook University. He was invited here by the University Libraries to help us show our appreciation for the Veterans on our campus and spark conversations between veterans and non-veterans. The day began…
Posted in Arts & Humanities, Events, Health Sciences Library, Library Outreach, Melville Library Tagged with: Veterans
University Libraries STEM Speaker Series, “Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum and Using it to Learn About Nature”
The University Libraries is very pleased to announce its second lecture of the fall 2018 STEM Speaker Series presented by Dr. Thomas Allison from the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics. Title: “Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum and Using…
Publications of Conductor and Verdi Scholar David Lawton (with Update!)
Congratulations to Dr. David Lawton, a Music Department faculty member since 1969, on his recent retirement. Lawton served as Artistic Director of Stony Brook Opera, and as Chairman and Director of Graduate Studies. He conducted the Stony Brook Symphony and…
Posted in About Us
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
Professor Benjamin Tausig presents “Bangkok is Ringing,” Tuesday, October 2
Professor Benjamin Tausig will talk about the ethnographic fieldwork he conducted during the antigovernment Red Shirt protests of 2010-2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. This movement foreshadowed the sonic and media tactics which would soon be employed by the Arab Spring, Occupy…
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Deported: An American Division Exhibit and Panel Discussion
On September 26th, University Libraries welcomed photographer Rachel Woolf and her award winning photos to Central Reading Room. Nancy Hiemstra, Geographer; Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Author of Deportation and Detention (forthcoming, 2019); Irma Solis, New York Civil Liberties Union (Suffolk County);…
HealthTech Fair
On Wednesday, September 26, the Health Sciences Library hosted its first HealthTech Fair. We had representatives from eight companies talking about the great products they offer, which are all available through the HSL. A representative from the National Network of…
