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IAP 2009: BIOBASE Knowledge Library and Explain Analysis System Training

By on January 5, 2009

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Save time and get more out of your data. Learn how to use BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL), licensed by MIT Libraries. BIOBASE offers curated databases and analysis tools designed to help biomarker, systems biology and life science researchers accelerate discovery processes. Included in this product is TRANSFAC®, TRANSPATH® and PROTEOME™ products. The BKL is great for research applications including gene set enrichment analysis, functional analysis, SNP analysis, gene expression analysis, and drug discovery. Also, learn about ExPlain Analysis Systems to perform gene regulation and systems biology focused biological interpretation of high throughput experiments like microarrays, proteomic data, and ChIP-chip experiments.

WHEN: Thursday, January 22, 9am – 12pm

WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132

Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 20 participants.

Contact Courtney Crummett with any questions.

IAP 2009: TechTV & U

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1001 uses of MIT TechTV in support of education, research, activities, and outreach!

MIT TechTV is MIT’s free video posting and hosting service, specializing in science, engineering, and MIT-related videos. Any member of the MIT Community can use MIT TechTV to post video content for the world to see. In this seminar, you’ll learn how you can use MIT TechTV to accomplish your goals and support your group whether it’s a class, lab, student organization, sport team, or department.

WHEN:
Wednesday, January 14, 11am – 12pm
Thursday, January 22, 11am – 12pm
Monday, January 26, 2 – 3pm

WHERE:
9-151, Kaufman Room (first two sessions)
9-152, Ford Room (third session)

Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. This is a repeating event with participants welcome at any session.

Contact Kris Brewer with any questions.

Cosponsored by Academic Media Production Services.

IAP 2009: Attention Faculty! Learn How to EASILY Post and Share Video with Your Students

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Are you interested in using on-line video to support your teaching but only want to share it with your class?

Come learn how you can use MIT TechTV to deliver video content. Fully functional with other sites, like Stellar, you can quickly and easily post videos and then share them with your classes or anyone else you desire (within copyright and Fair Use guidelines).

MIT TechTV also provides for easy segmentation and in-line commenting. Learn more about these features and explore how you can use MIT TechTV!

WHEN:
Monday, January 12, 11am – 12pm
Tuesday, January 20, 11am – 12pm
Wednesday, January 28, 2 – 3pm
Friday, January 30, 11am – 12pm
Friday, January 30, 3 – 4pm

WHERE: 9-151, Kaufman Room

Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 28 participants. This is a repeating event with participants welcome at any session.

Contact Kris Brewer with any questions.

Cosponsored by Academic Media Production Services.

Food for Thought, times two

By on December 10, 2008
Food for Thought
Need a break from all your studies?  We’re providing two opportunities, on two different days and times, to chow down this year.  Here are the details:

First Food for Thought:

  • Where: Barker Library (10-500) lobby
  • When: Wednesday December 10th, 1-3pm
  • Cost: FREE!!!

Second Food for Thought:

  • Where: Hayden Library (14S-100) lobby
  • When: Thursday December 11th, 2:15-3:45pm
  • Cost: FREE!!!

The Bookmobile rolls in, and then you rock out!!!

By on December 9, 2008

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Check out a great selection of books from the Humanities Library, with a special emphasis on gaming and music, at our next Bookmobile event Wednesday, December 10th.  There will also be a rocking sampling of cd’s from the Lewis Music Library.  Then bop your way up to the Barker Library Media Room for a special Rock Band gaming event!

Details (see previous blog posting for more Rock Band event details):

  • Date: Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
  • Time: 11AM – 6PM (Bookmobile:  11-2, Rock Band Event: 3-6)
  • Where: Bookmobile in Lobby 10, Rock Band event in the Barker Library Media Room (10-500)
  • Cost: FREE!!!

Rock out with Rock Band at the MIT Libraries!!

By on December 1, 2008

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On Wednesday, December 10, from 3 – 6pm, the Engineering and Humanities Libraries are holding a gaming event in the Media Room of the Barker Engineering Library (5th floor of building 10).

Celebrate the end of the semester with Rock Band, snacks and fun! No registration required.

A full-sized Peak Guitar that goes with Rock Band, Guitar Hero, PS2 and PS3 will be raffled off. See the Peak website for more information.

Rock out with the MIT Libraries!!

Contact Amy Stout with any questions.

Ellen H. Richards Memorial Home Economics Calendar displayed by Archives in December.

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Cover of the calendarEllen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the first woman to receive a degree from MIT (S.B. in chemistry in 1873). She was instrumental in establishing the Women’s Laboratory, which operated at MIT from 1876 to 1883, for the instruction of women in chemistry. From 1884 to her death, Richards was instructor in sanitary chemistry at MIT.

But beyond MIT, Richards was active in social services, leading efforts to improve the health and education of the general population. The Ellen H. Richards Memorial Home Economics Calendar, the Object of the Month of the Institute Archives and Special Collections, was created in recognition of her leadership role in the area of home economics.

Further information about Ellen Swallow Richards is available on the Archives web site and at the Institute Archives and Special Collections, 14N-118.

New photography exhibit in Rotch Library: Riverscapes

By on November 25, 2008

A new exhibit in Rotch Library:

Riverscapes: and exhibition of photographs of historical water landscapes, by Adriana de Miranda.

An opening reception will take place from 5:30 PM until 7:00 PM on November 25, 2008.

The “hydraulic noria” represents the most elegant of hydraulic devices. It is a water-wheel which, using the power of the river, raises water to irrigate fields which are at a higher level than the level of the water. The system is composed of a vertical wheel and an aqueduct. The base of the wheel is submerged in the river and turns because of the current. Water is carried to the top of the wheel and is poured into the channel on the top of the aqueduct, and is directed to irrigate the surrounding fields. Hydraulic norias provide environmental and economic advantages, as well as those of safety. As a clean technology they allow irrigation requiring no petrol or oil, but fully exploiting the power of the river, as an economical device they are built using materials found in the area and have a simple assembly; they are also efficient and have low operational and maintenance costs.

The hydraulic noria, whose earliest evidence dates back to at least the Ist century B.C., is widespread in Syria on the Orontes river, but it still exists today in other parts of the Mediterranean basin, in East Asia and Central America where its technology has not changed. Particularly the Syrian and Chinese devices successfully combine the functional with the aesthetic and display sophisticated forms of construction.

They are visually impressive, present shapes which are the results of an accurate and detailed design and are of great historical, environmental and iconographical importance. These installations were devised as architectural constructions whose design is not only intended to be functional, but also aesthetic. They also show an architecture which has been able to combine essentiality and simplicity, necessary for integration into the landscape, and an architectural shape whose geometric construction is based on schemes of symmetry, modularity and harmony.

This exhibit will be on display from November 25, 2008 until December 16, 2008.