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Recent Asteroid Discoveries & Possible Collisions with Earth

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Barbara

Dr. Paul Rybski, UWW Dept. of Physics, will give a one-hour talk about “Recent Asteroid Discoveries and Possible Collisions with Earth” on Fri., Oct. 11, at 8pm in Upham 140. It’s the second lecture in the 2013-2014 Whitewater Observatory Lecture … Continue reading →

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Shutdown!

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Barbara

The federal government is in shutdown mode. Does it affect your research? Well, maybe. Some federal agency web sites are down until funding is restored, while others are available but not being updated. The Library of Congress, Census Bureau, National … Continue reading →

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Digital Public Library of America

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Barbara

There are lots and lots of institutions providing digitized materials, but who has the time to find them? Well, here’s a one-stop discovery tool! The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides free access to the digitized riches of libraries, … Continue reading →

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Celebrate the birth of jeans May 20th

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Barbara

Did you know that blue jeans were born on May 20, 1873? That’s the day that U.S. patent no. 139,121 for “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings” was granted to Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss, creating work pants reinforced with metal rivets … Continue reading →

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New Online Federal Document: Learning from Iraq

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Barbara

Learning From Iraq: A Final Report From the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction is available online and it “culminates SIGIR’s nine-year mission overseeing Iraq’s reconstruction.” “This study provides much more than a recapitulation of what the reconstruction program accomplished … Continue reading →

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American Diabetes Association Alert Day

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Barbara

Tuesday, March 26, 2013, is the American Diabetes Association® Alert Day®, which is meant to draw everyone’s attention to diabetes and their risk for the disease. On the web site you can take the free Diabetes Risk Test, which asks … Continue reading →

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Research in Gender and Women’s Studies

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Diana

March is Women’s History Month and Andersen Library has plenty of resources to help you learn more about gender history and the history of women. North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 This collection includes one of the … Continue reading →

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Wellfest 2013 (Sun Mar 10)

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Barbara

Wellness 2013 will take place in Whitewater’s High School from noon-3pm on Sunday, March 10. It’s free and sponsored by Working for Whitewater’s Wellness (W3), UW-Whitewater, and other entities. Check it out for free food, fitness classes, healthy cooking demos, … Continue reading →

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MLK commemorative event Jan. 23

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Barbara

Rodney Slater will deliver the keynote address at UWW’s 27th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Event. Please join the campus community at this event on Wed., Jan. 23, at 3:30pm in the UC’s Hamilton Center. Mr. Slater, partner at … Continue reading →

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National Technical Reports Library available through 3/31/13

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Barbara

The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) is available though March 31, 2013 to UWW students and staff. NTRL contains the meta-data of over 2 million scientific and technical reports, with access to over 700,000 of these reports in full-text. Some … Continue reading →

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