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Meet this year’s MacArthur Fellows - talented, accomplished individuals in a variety of fields who were recently awarded $500,000 each to pursue their passions. “There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work” (Fellows program description).
Two 2007 recipients have a Virginia connection: Corey Harris (Charlottesville) is a “guitarist, songwriter, and performer who is leading a contemporary revival of country blues with a fresh, modern hand”; and Marc Edwards, a professor at Virginia Tech, is a water quality engineer “playing a vital role in ensuring the safety of drinking water and in exposing deteriorating water-delivery infrastructure in America’s largest cities.”
Another recipient is Peter Cole, a translator who I heard read with poet Taha Muhammed Ali at the 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Watch the video on the festival web site. You’ll also want to check out the work of Yoky Matsuoka, a neurorobiticist.
Amazing people - all 25 of them!
Need help searching JSTOR or Project MUSE, or finding news sources? If you don’t have time to stop by the library (or the library is closed), consult the tip sheets (in PDF) available on these topics. Links to these tips can be found on the Articles and News pages, and in this post. Enjoy!
No, Frodo hasn’t really made the news, but recent findings about the skeletal remains of the Homo floresiensis (nicknamed the Hobbit after Frodo and friends in Tolkien’s LOTR trilogy) discovered in 2004 have rekindled debate about the origins of this short, small-brained creature. Read more about this story on the BBC Science News site.
Hello! I’m your library media specialist, Ms. Sellors and I’d like to welcome you to the new web site (technically, a blog) for the library media center at MLWGS. You’ll find many familiar links here, as well as new resources. This main page will feature 1 - 3 new entries per week about books, research tips, or observations. You can find previous posts using the tag cloud, archive, or search tool (at the bottom left of the page).
Along the top menu bar, the Articles page (renamed Databases on Oct. 16, 2007) contains links to all of the resources to which the library has a paid subscription. Save yourself time and $$ by checking these resources for scholarly articles before driving to the VCU library. The Maps page has links to select online map collections (maps are cool!); News provides quick links to current issues of select publications; Tips has helpful research tips about finding, evaluating, and citing sources; and Tools connects you with free, web-based tools for organizing, sharing, and super-powering your research.
In the Links section on the left of the page, you’ll find links for searching the MW library catalog, checking the library’s Google calendar, accessing bookmarks in the library’s del.icio.us account, finding quick answers using online reference sources, searching the VCU library catalog, and seeing a list of select open sources for research.
I am still developing some pages (like Maps), and the site will continue to evolve after the initial version is complete. Please feel free to email me or stop by the library media center to contribute to the development process.
