For the past 15 years, Earthstock has been a SBU annual tradition in celebration of Earth Day. The festivities will take place on the Academic Mall today, Friday, April 20. Special Collections has several important collections that document environmental history and advocacy including the papers of: Environmental Defense Fund: in 2002,
On April 3, Dr. Dávalos unfolded the mysteries of 5 mass extinctions and offered pivotal lessons for preventing future extinction. Using an example from the Caribbean, Dr. Dávalos described the end of glaciation that caused the bat extinction. On the other hand, there was a fossil study which revealed
University Libraries is pleased to announce its fourth lecture of the Spring 2018 STEM Speaker Series given by Dr. Xiaojun Bi, Department of Computer Science. Title: “Computational Interaction in Post-PC Computing” Date/Time: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 from 1pm-2pm Location: Special Collections Seminar Room, E2340, second floor of the Melville
On March 27, Dr. Ya Wang, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, presented her innovative research project on passive infrared (PIR) sensors. PIR sensors currently used in buildings only detect moving objects. This detection may provide false negative detections resulting in inaccurate lighting, temperature swings, and waste of energy.
The second lecture of the Spring 2018 STEM Speaker Series, given by Dr. Ya Wang from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was rescheduled to Friday, March 30, 2018 from 2pm-3pm. Title: “Optically chopped PIR sensor for occupancy detection” New Date/Time: Friday, March 30, 2018 from 2pm-3pm Location: Special Collections
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
Join us on 2/15 for two exciting presentations! Special Collections Seminar Room 2/15/18, 1pm-2pm Drug Advertising in JAMA During the 1970s Presented By Gregg Stevens Drug advertising in medical journals reflects both medical practice and social conditions. Ads from print issues of the Journal of the American Medical
Learning through different mediums can give you a whole new perspective on a topic. You might pick up on something from reading a newspaper article that you would not have from reading a fictional novel on the subject. The visual aspect of video can add a whole other dimension to
Google is probably already a part of your daily life, but did you know you can use it to store all your files and pictures? Microsoft can glitch, causing you to lose a whole all-nighter’s worth of work. And there’s just never enough space on your computer to store
