Monthly Archives: May 2011 - p2

Are you having trouble managing your citations? Do you wish there was a way to share citations with your colleagues? Have you dreamed of a tool that can help you insert references directly into the paper you’re writing, while helping you build a bibliography? If so, today’s your lucky day. The Eccles Library is offering [...]

Eccles Library was recently awarded a five-year contract to host the National Library of Medicine’s National Training Center (NTC). Our own Sharon Dennis worked long and hard to put together a successful proposal, and will now lead the effort to make this a reality. We are currently hiring for a Trainer / Curriculum and Content [...]

Undergoing surgery can be frightening at the best of times. But for children, surgery can be terrifying. At the Shriners Hospital in Chicago, child-life specialist Kia Ferrer has developed an iPad app that will provide a kid-friendly virtual walk-through of their treatment. As noted in Medill Reports, Ferrer explains that: “With Keynote, an iPad application [...]

In April 2011, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) released its Embryo mobile app. Using images from the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Carnegie Embryo Collection, this free app shows images of early stage human embryos for mobile devices. Features include human fertilization videos, photo micrographs of early-stage embryo development, 2D and 3D digital [...]

Just a reminder that Friday, May 6, 2011 is Commencement Day here at the University. Ceremonies begin in the Jon M. Huntsman Center with the procession at 8:20 a.m., and the program at 9:00 a.m. As usual Commencement Day will require temporary parking changes in order to accommodate our graduates and their guests on both [...]