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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) will host Who “Owns” The Arctic?: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on March 28, 2012. The conference will bring together policymakers, academics, students, … Continue reading →

Did you notice today’s Google logo?  It celebrates the 374th birthday of geologist Nicolas Steno, and illustrates his most famous contributions, the Law of Superposition and the Principle of Original Horizontality.  The Law of Superposition states that the oldest rock … Continue reading →

From their website: “The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for … Continue reading →

Don’t miss the UNC Department of Marine Sciences’ Sankey L. Blanton Jr. Lecture Event this Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011.  Guest speaker Dr. Jeremy Jackson, former director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and Professor of Oceanography at the … Continue reading →

Don’t miss the 6th Annual Carolina Climate Change Seminar on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Benjamin Santer, renowned climate scientist specializing in “climate fingerprint” studies at … Continue reading →

RSC Publications recently announced the release of its free mobile application for iOS.  You can search RSC publications that your institution subscribes to, save articles to read offline, and share via email, Facebook, and Twitter.  RSC also offers a ChemSpider … Continue reading →

Jeff Dangl of the Biology Department has been named a HHMI-GBMF Investigator, one of just 15 US scientists chosen to advance basic plant science research. More about the program here.

Some science libraries and services will be relocated on the UNC campus during the summer of 2011. The moves are a response to the serious budget situation confronting the Library and the campus. They also reflect efforts to economize while … Continue reading →

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