You are currently browsing the monthly archive for March 2009.
Spring break presents a wonderful opportunity to read for enjoyment. Yes, I realize it’s hard to imagine having time to actually do that! But if reading is in your plans for break, drop by the library to check out some of the titles added to the library’s collection recently, including the following:
- Enrique’s Journey
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded
- Wesley the Owl – The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
- Brisingr
- Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams – Natural Affinities
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- The Year of Living Biblically
- Skylark Farm
- The Moon in Our Hands
- Resistance – A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France
- Dragon Bones
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Whole Truth
Three students at the University of Richmond (Vladimir Hruda, David Whitehead, and Salmaan Ayaz) recently launched an interesting variation on a Google Custom Search Engine. According to an email sent out to faculty at U of R this week, their professor says that the search engine, called Hoongle, executes a Google search, and for each search, 20 grains of rice is donated to the UN World Food Program. An intriguing concept…
Want to learn more about how your brain works? Drop by the library to peruse the posters created by students in Dr. Compton’s Biopsychology course (dual enrollment) for the recent Brain Day event at VCU. Topics include gender differences in the brain, synesthesia, epilepsy, the effect of sleep deprivation on memory, and more…
Did you like Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (a popular title here at MW)? Do you enjoy reading novels set in China? Is suspense something you look for in a book?
If you answered yes to any/all of these questions, check out Dragon Bones by Lisa See, one of the books in her Red Princess Mystery series (and although part of a series, the novel can be read independently of the others). A special thank you to junior Eric Sawchack who purchased this title for the library during the recent B&N bookfair.
Feel like you’re “at one” with your iPhone or favorite mobile device? Pranav Mistry, a student with MIT’s Media Lab, has taken integration of technology with natural human movement and information needs to a new level with the device he’s developing under the guidance of Dr. Pattie Maes. Check out a video about his invention from TED, “the” conference for breakthrough thinking.
