Library hours during exam week

Due to graduation, graduation practice, and other schedule changes during exams, the MW Library will not be open during its usual 8:30 – 3:20 time frame each day.  During exam week, library hours will be as follows:

• Monday, June 8 – 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, June 9 – 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 10 – 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
• Thursday, June 11, 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
• Friday, June 12, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Seniors who owe VCU Libraries

Attention seniors!  Wondering if you owe VCU Libraries a book or unpaid fines for lost/late books?  Check the lists posted in the Senior Commons and outside the MW Library.  Please settle your account with VCU and get a receipt showing that your fines are paid and that you have no books checked out.  Mrs. Hicks will need to see this verification in order to sign your green signature sheet.

Please return all MW Library materials

Please return all MW Library materials to the library as soon as possible.  The end-of-year deadlines are as follows:

• Seniors – Wednesday, June 3rd
• All other Students – Friday, June 5th
• Faculty – Friday, June 12th

New computational search engine launched today

If you haven’t already given it a whirl, plug a couple searches into Wolfram Alpha, the new computational search engine that launched today.

See what computations Wolfram Alpha can do with queries like these…

• green + yellow
• apple microsoft (and don’t overlook all the drop-down options under Fundamentals)
• 2 cups orange juice
• gene FASTKD2
• 0.4 molar sodium hydroxide
• derivative of x^4 sin x

Its goal is a lofty one:

To make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

Read examples of the myriad of computations possible already or watch a 13-minute introductory screencast.

Summer of Learning for Dragon faculty

This summer, as in summers past, several MLWGS teachers will be participating in educational seminars and workshops through the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and similar organizations.  They’ll be as close as UVA and as far away as Cambridge, England.

I’ll update the map between now and June 13, but this initial draft already includes six teachers.  Explore this Google Map to find out who will be where and what they’ll be learning about…

Summer of Learning