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Science & Engineering Library News
RSS FeedHow to renew your books
Don't forget to renew your library books! You can renew your books from any location with internet access, through BU Libraries Search. Simply sign in to “My Account” and you will be able to view your loans. Generally, as long as the material has not been requested by another patron, you... Read the rest of this entry »
ENG’s Xin Zhang Is BU’s 2018 Innovator of the Year
Xin Zhang is well-known for her pioneering work with metamaterials in areas as diverse as magnetic resonance imaging, downwell sensor technology for the oil industry, and noise-cancellation acoustics.
Find open access in BU Libraries Search with unpaywall
The ability to link to open access resources just got easier thanks to the addition of unpaywall to BU Libraries Search. To get access to open access versions of articles, look for the “Open Access available via unpaywall” link in your search results. Information about this and other new features in the... Read the rest of this entry »
BU ENG Prof Sahar Sharifzadeh Named One of Scientific American’s 11 Rising Stars of Science
When 500 scientists from around the globe were assessed by the Nature Index and the League of Scholars Whole-of-Web (WoW), based on their curiosity, their initiative, their flexibility, their published research, and their links to industry, and the top names surfaced, Boston University’s Sahar Sharifzadeh was chosen one of 11 Rising... Read the rest of this entry »
Join the Mugar Book Club
Join the Mugar Book Club, meeting electronically this summer on Facebook! We’re reading How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez. Lead by our fabulous Mugar Orientation Ambassadors, BU students Rebecca Strong Garcia, Kate Monroe, and Naveen Imin, we’ll discuss everything from the portrayal of identity and race... Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. K. Matthew Dames appointed University Librarian
Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, announced the appointment of Dr. K. Matthew Dames as the next University Librarian on May 15: http://www.bu.edu/provost/2018/05/15/selection-of-dr-k-matthew-dames-as-boston-university-librarian/ And BU Today profiled the new University Librarian on May 18: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/k-matthew-dames-appointed-new-university-librarian/
BU Computer Scientist Awarded High Honor in Mathematics
Ran Canetti of the Computer Science department has been given an award for excellence in the field of mathematics at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Dr. Canetti's pioneering work in cybersecurity and cryptography have contributed new protocols, models and structures to the field. You can read more about the... Read the rest of this entry »
Cheng is Inaugural Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics
Upon Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s appointment to the College of Engineering last summer, he was named the inaugural holder of the endowed Theodore Moustakas Professorship in Photonics and Optoelectronics. Earlier this month, Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen gathered Cheng, his chair’s namesake, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Photonics and Optoelectronics Theodore... Read the rest of this entry »
OpenRefine: Numbers, Scripts, and Exports
Our second session on OpenRefine will continue with Data Carpentry's OpenRefine lesson and will cover: + Examining numbers in OpenRefine + How to document data cleaning in OpenRefine + Applying scripts to our data sets + Exporting our work from OpenRefine Join us in Mugar Library's Estin Room (room 302) at 12:30. Space is limited. Read the rest of this entry »