Computer Simulator (continued from page 10) In September 2009, he taught undergraduate students of Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering (SPCE) in India and conducted research with students and faculty for five months as a part of the Fulbright Fellowship Program, which aims at increasing a greater academic connection between the United States and other countries. Currently, Black devotes his limited free time to the computer simulator. Considering the extensive work involved in writing a program, his work through the summer and currently during the school year has shown remarkable development.
Biology Scholarship (continued from page 4) because of the academically solid premedical program, small class sizes, and close teacherstudent interactions. Outside of the Biology Department, she is involved in the university’s Alternative Breaks program, through which she will lead a social-justice themed trip to study HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C., this spring.
NEW SCIENCE RESOURCES AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY An update on science teaching and research resources from Bender Library By Rachel Borchardt, science librarian NEW RESEARCH DATABASES
SELECTED NEW BOOKS
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection— addition of more than 1,800 new journals, largely in the sciences
For more new titles, check out the New Titles RSS feeds in the science subject guides: http://subjectguides.library.american.edu.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)—a collection of resources related to environmental sciences and policy PsychiatryOnline’s DSM-IV-TR—An online copy of the most current version of the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Safari TechBooks—Thousands of technical e-books, including up-todate programming manuals Films On Demand—6,500 online, streaming videos that cover many science topics NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS Journal of Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience
AU FACULTY BOOK Principles of Environmental Chemistry, 2nd edition, by James E. Girard. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010. QD33.2 .G57 2010 OTHER BOOKS Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design, by Allene Phy-Olsen. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2010. QH367.3 .P485 2010 Environmental Social Science: HumanEnvironment Interactions and Sustainability, by Emilio F. Moran. Malden, MA: WileyBlackwell, 2010. GF75 .M668 2010 Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life, by Robert H. Carlson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. TP248.2 .C37 2010
Genome Research
The Gloria Likins Undergraduate Scholarship for Women in Biology was endowed by American University graduate Gloria Likins. Likins graduated from AU in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and then worked as an associate for the National Institutes of Health, according to AnewAU’s Web site. Likins passed away in 2005 after having named AU the primary beneficiary of her estate, permanently endowing the scholarship.
Nature Genetics Cochrane Library Annals of Mathematics Ecology Letters Perception
The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. New York: Bantam Books, 2010. The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet, by Heidi Cullen. New York: Harper, 2010. QC903 .C85 2010
To make suggestions for additional purchases or subscriptions, or to submit questions/comments, please contact Rachel Borchardt, science librarian, at borchard@american.edu or 202-885-3657.
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