Jackson Library Tours the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

As part of our on-going staff development efforts, Jackson Library staff were given a behind the scenes tour of the Joint School of School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering on Friday, July 22nd.  Dr. Dan Herr, Professor and Nanoscience Department Chair, provide a brief talk about the history of the school and the evolution of nano science. He then provided a tour of the building and discussed the various advances in sciences that were being done by the school.


If you were unable to attend but are still interested in some day seeing the school, please contact Dan at djherr@uncg.edu .

Sean

Photos from Mary's Retirement Party

blog post by Orolando Duffus on his daytime MBA v. evening MBA embedded experience

Fyi, an interesting article/post by Orolando.

"An Embedded Librarian’s Experience with Nighttime versus Daytime MBA Students (guest post by Orolando Duffus)"

https://liaisonlife.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/duffus/

--Steve

Complete the Greensboro Recycling Survey for a Chance to Win one of Five $50 Visa Gift Cards

What Do You Know About City Recycling?

The City of Greensboro invites you to complete this survey about recycling to help improve its recycling program. The survey asks what you do or do not recycle, if you know what items are recyclable in the City’s program, and ways you suggest the City encourage people to recycle more.

Also, checkout their new website where you can also take the survey.

 

Once the results of the survey are compiled, the City will use the results to launch more effective educational campaigns to increase recycling. Everyone who completes the survey is eligible to win one of five $50 Visa gift cards.

 

A paper version of the survey is being mailed with City water bills. You may complete the paper survey or take the online survey. Deadline to complete and return your survey to be eligible for a Visa gift card is June 30.

Earth Day Celebration 2016 - Friday April 22nd 3pm-8pm

UNCGreen is throwing an Earth Day Celebration this Friday! Come out and join us for some free food and live music and enter into our raffles to win one of two $125 vouchers for a bike from Recycles or other prizes while hearing about all the movements happening to make our campus more sustainable, including updates from Green Fund recipients.

The event is on College Avenue and starts at 3 and will go on until 8pm!

Jazz and Ecomusicology: New Questions for Old Jazz Histories - April 21st 5pm 217 Music Building

Dr. William Bares, University of North Carolina Asheville

Thursday, April 21, 5pm, UNCG Music Building 217

This talk will bring established understandings of jazz history as an
unruly, macho, heroic, American and urban soloist’s art into dialog with
the budding field of ecomusicology. Analyses of Marion Brown's
_Afternoon of a Georgia Faun_, Jan Garbarek's _Dis_, and Sonny Rollins's
_Global Warming_ will provide entree into a consideration of some of
today's ecological jazz productions: among others, the work of Grammy
nominee Vijay Iyer, the Cuban pianist Fabian Almazan, and the Dutch
group Tin Men and the Telephone.

Dr. Bares holds a B.A. from Amherst College, a M.M. in Jazz Performance
from the University of Miami, and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from
Harvard University, where he studied with Ingrid Monson, the Quincy
Jones Professor of African American Music. In addition to his university
teaching career, Bares spent ten years performing and researching jazz
in Europe, and worked in Washington D.C. for the Democratic National
Committee and for Representative Jane Harman (D-CA).

Sponsored by the UNCG Department of Music Studies and the UNCG
Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program.

Open to the public.

Event Address: 100 McIver Street, Greensboro, NC. / Event Parking:
McIver Parking Deck (hourly rate). For disability accommodations,
contact Dr. Allen at 256-0165 or aaron_allen@uncg.edu

Rosann's and Melvina's Retirement Party - Photos