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Impactstory Helps Researchers Make an Impact
ImpactStory has created a list of 30 effective steps for researchers to ensure their hard work makes a difference in their field and with the public. They are sharing one step a day on the Impactstory blog during the month of November and encourage followers of the blog to give each one a try. Impactstory … Continued
Writers in the Library: David James Poissant, Nov. 17
David James Poissant will read from his highly acclaimed short story collection, The Heaven of Animals, at UT’s Writers in the Library on Monday, November 17, at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library. The reading is free and open to the public. Prior to the reading, at 3 … Continued
Free Tutoring in Pendergrass Library!
The Office of Multicultural Student Life is joining the tutoring community available at Pendergrass Library. This free service offers tutoring to those students enrolled in any section of the following courses: Animal Sciences 220 Biology 150 Biology 160 Chemistry 120 Chemistry 130 The tutoring service is open to all students and no appointments are required. … Continued
Publish in PeerJ for Free Until Nov 30th (and beyond)
PeerJ has announced that from now until November 30th 2014 they publish your article for free. If you are a Faculty member, you can already receive a PeerJ membership using our prepaid PeerJ fund, but this opportunity allows everyone else to have the opportunity to use PeerJ’s innovative publishing platform. (Two of PeerJ’s most notable innovations … Continued
Brown Bag, Oct. 29: Digitizing Tennessee’s historic newspapers
Historical newspaper records once available only through long hours of research can now be accessed within seconds. Learn about a program that is digitizing Tennessee’s historic newspapers and making them available online. The public is invited to a Brown Bag Lunch on Wednesday, October 29, at noon in the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. … Continued
OA Week: The Open Standard – News About Open Systems
Has Open Access (OA) Week made you excited to learn more about the power of open principles? The Mozilla foundation (the non-profit responsible for the open-source Firefox browser) has launched a news site The Open Standard. The Open Standard provides online news coverage of open, transparent, and collaborative systems at work in technology and our daily … Continued
Public Invited to Hear Anthropologist Bill Bass, Oct. 30
Over his fifty-year career as an anthropologist, University of Tennessee Professor Emeritus William M. Bass excavated ancient skeletons and recovered the remains of murder victims. He also headed UT’s anthropology department for more than 20 years and trained many of the nation’s current leading forensic anthropologists. The University of Tennessee Libraries, which holds the research … Continued
Public Invited to Hear Anthropologist Bill Bass, Oct. 30
Over his fifty-year career as an anthropologist, University of Tennessee Professor Emeritus William M. Bass excavated ancient skeletons and recovered the remains of murder victims. He also headed UT’s anthropology department for more than 20 years and trained many of the nation’s current leading forensic anthropologists. The University of Tennessee Libraries, which holds the research … Continued
Keith Flynn and Joyce Jenkins at “Writers in the Library,” Oct. 27
Poets Keith Flynn and Joyce Jenkins will read from their works at the University of Tennessee’s Writers in the Library on Monday, October 27, at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library. The reading is free and open to the public. Keith Flynn is the founder and editor of … Continued