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Posted by: Nancy Lovas
It takes around 838 miles of bookshelves to hold the vast collections of the Library of Congress. Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the closed stacks under Capitol Hill or in an off-site storage facility, there may be a resource that will help you get closer to answering your questions. As a researcher, your entry into …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Dr. Padi Boyd, Chief of the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will speak at the Library of Congress about the thousands of planets discovered beyond our solar system and the evolving view …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by John F. Buydos, Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division, Library of Congress Whether it is engineers collaborating with other engineers to remain up-to-date in their field or to discuss the competency of other practitioners, one of the major ways that collaboration is accomplished is by attending conferences and …
Posted in: Science
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
A 1918 conference on labor in wartime sheds light on women in the workforce.
Posted in: Business, Labor, Women's History, World War I
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
American investigative reporter, non-fiction author and filmmaker David France will discuss his book How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, a definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic. Inspired by his Oscar-nominated documentary of the same name, How to Survive a Plague is …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Dr. Zaven Arzoumanian is a research astrophysicist and the deputy principal investigator for the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. He will describe the NICER mission, an International Space Station payload devoted to studying neutron stars — the physics governing their interiors, their emissions, and their …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics