Archive: September 2019 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Jennifer Harbster; (Year) 2019; (Month) September

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Organic Molecules in Martian Mud: NASA Lecture with Astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode on September 12

September 5, 2019

On September 12, NASA Astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode presents "A Mud Matter: The Recent Discovery of Organic Matter Preserved in 3-billion-year-old Mudstones on Mars," at the Library's James Madison Building's third floor Mary Pickford Theater from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos

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Walt Whitman’s View of Railroads: To a Locomotive in Winter

September 5, 2019

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter;" first appeared in print February 19, 1876 in the New York Daily Tribune as part of a preview of the volume Two Rivulets (1876). Published just seven years after the union of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter" considers the dynamic relationship between the railroad and nature.

Posted in: Guest Blog Posts

Refined by: (Author) Jennifer Harbster; (Year) 2019; (Month) September