My Antonia: The Story in Sign
The Friends of Ramsey Library and Ramsey Library are very pleased to announce our support of a very special event which is free and open to the public. Acclaimed actress and American Sign Language practitioner Barbara Bates Smith will perform passages ofMy Antonia in sign and spoken word with Marilyn Edwards, Telecommunications Specialist, Asheville office, N.C. Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. This program is a component of the region’s celebration of the National Endowment of the Arts THE BIG READ, which is featuring Willa Cather’s My Antonia under the auspices of Western North Carolina’s Together We Read.
My Antonia: the Story in Sign (poster)
Sunday, March 16
2:30 PM
Reuter Center
UNCA Campus
AUDUBON’S BIRDS ONLINE
In its 4 March issue, the Chronicle’s “The Wired Campus” reported that Pitt’s Digital Research Library “. . . used a high-resolution scanner to create the digital set (of Audubon’s 435 birds) for the Web, along with reprints from Audubon’s Ornithological Biography, his five-volume text describing each of the birds.” “The naturalist John James Audubon attempted, in the 19th century, to paint every species of North American bird. He got through 435 of them before running out of time and money.” Only 120 sets of the large, hand-colored works are known to exist. To view the plates and text directly, go to the University of Pittsburgh’s beautiful Audubon’s Birds of America.
Audubon’s 435 Birds Mounted Online at Pitt
AND FROM THE SHADIER SIDE OF ACADEME
The Chronicle’s “Today’s News” of 6 March reported that a researcher at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has been suspended for fabricating data which “. . . appear in two papers about ways to manipulate human cells that were published in highly influential journals. The articles by the scientist, Tae Kook Kim, appeared in 2005 and 2006 in Science and Nature Chemical Biology, and had both already been cited several times by authors of other articles, an indication of their importance.”
Posted by Brandy on March 7, 2008 5:39 PM
