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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Not long before NASA’s Juno spacecraft reaches Jupiter on its target date of July 4, the public is invited to a free talk “JUNO Mission to Jupiter” with Dr. Jack Connerney, the mission’s deputy principal investigator and head of the magnetometer team. The talk will be held in the Pickford Theater on the third floor …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The public is invited to a free talk called “OSIRIS-REx: The First U.S. Mission to Return Samples from an Asteroid to Earth” with Dr. Jason P. Dworkin in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the Madison Building on Tuesday, May 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. OSIRIS-REx. Does it sound a bit …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s guest post is by ST&B’s upcoming speakers, Paul J. Baicich and Margaret A. Barker, who will present “The Surprising History of Bird Feeding,” based on their book (written with colleague Carrol L. Henderson), Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce and Conservation (Texas A&M University Press, 2015). Books will be for sale at the …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The following is a guest blog by Bernadette Dunham, D.V.M., Ph.D. and Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D. of the Science, Technology and Business Division The One Health concept is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals, and the environment. It recognizes the interconnections of human …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Dr. Gong Ping (G.P.) Yeh, world renowned high energy physicist, will be speaking at the Library of Congress on Thursday, May 5, 2015. His lecture, World Energy Transformation: Asia and Beyond, will address sustainable energy and improving energy efficiencies. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Science Technology & Business Division and the LC Asian American …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The public is invited to a free talk called “The Science of Interstellar: Life on Planets Around Black Holes” with Dr. Jeremy Schnittman in the Pickford Theater on third floor of the Madison Building on Tuesday, May 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.. Jeremy Schnittman is a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
On Tuesday, April 12, Dorie Clark will be speaking at the Library of Congress about her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015). She will explain how to identify the ideas that set you apart, promote them successfully, and build a community of …
Posted in: Business, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Curious about a portrait of “Old Yarrow” by James Alexander Simpson that hangs in the Peabody Room of Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown public library, James J. Johnston a journalist and attorney decided he wanted to know more and eventually ended up writing a book From Slave Ship to Harvard. The portrait “Old Yarrow” was of Yarrow …
Posted in: African American History, Business, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The El Niño of 2015-2016 has been called a Mega Niño or a Super El Niño, the strongest since 1997. El Niño occurs every two to seven years and its effects are felt the world over. Drought-stricken California has had heavy rains and snow, while strong storms have caused floods and fueled tornadoes elsewhere in …
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