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EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on and there will be time for questions at the end.

Our next session:

Thursday, March 9th, 10:00-11:00am (East Information Commons, 2nd Floor)

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.

EndNote Desktop is available FREE from the UI Libraries to all graduate students, faculty and staff. Download your own copy.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on and there will be time for questions at the end.

Our next session:

Thursday, March 9th, 10:00-11:00am (East Information Commons, 2nd Floor)

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.

EndNote Desktop is available FREE from the UI Libraries to all graduate students, faculty and staff. Download your own copy.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

Pi day is 3.14 but we are celebrating early this year due to Spring Break!

Pi day is 3.14 but we are celebrating early this year due to Spring Break!

KARL ERNST VON BAER (1792-1876). De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. Leipzig: Sumptibus L. Vossii, 1827.  

Baer was an early pioneer of modern embryology who, through painstaking and patient effort, investigated germ cell line-age of a variety of species, firmly establishing embryology as a comparative science. While a professor in Königsberg,  Baer wrote his most significant work, describing for the first time the mammalian ovum.

In this epoch-making book Baer also made reference to the germ layer theory, suggested the similarity of the early stages of embryonic development in related species, and observed the first rudiment of the dorsal spine, later called the notochord. Baer is also considered to be one of the founders of modern morphology as a result of his work in comparative embryology.

The year after this book was published, he proposed von Baer’s laws of embryology.

You may view this book in the John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by donating online or setting up a recurring gift with The University of Iowa Foundation.

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KARL ERNST VON BAER (1792-1876). De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. Leipzig: Sumptibus L. Vossii, 1827.

Baer was an early pioneer of modern embryology who, through painstaking and patient effort, investigated germ cell line-age of a variety of species, firmly establishing embryology as a comparative science. While a professor in Königsberg,  Baer wrote his most significant work, describing for the first time the mammalian ovum.

In this epoch-making book Baer also made reference to the germ layer theory, suggested the similarity of the early stages of embryonic development in related species, and observed the first rudiment of the dorsal spine, later called the notochord. Baer is also considered to be one of the founders of modern morphology as a result of his work in comparative embryology.

The year after this book was published, he proposed von Baer’s laws of embryology.

You may view this book in the John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by donating online or setting up a recurring gift with The University of Iowa Foundation.

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We’ll be celebrating Pi Day on March 9^th – before spring break!!!

We’ll be celebrating in the Engineering Library and will begin to serve apple pie bites at 3:14 (when else?!) until 5:00 p.m. – or while supplies last! We will also have coffee and lemonade – did I mention the pie bites, coffee, and lemonade are free? Come early – these tasty bites go fast!

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We’ll be celebrating Pi Day on March 9^th – before spring break!!!

We’ll be celebrating in the Engineering Library and will begin to serve apple pie bites at 3:14 (when else?!) until 5:00 p.m. – or while supplies last! We will also have coffee and lemonade – did I mention the pie bites, coffee, and lemonade are free? Come early – these tasty bites go fast!

Celebrate Iowa City Dawin Day, a celebration of science and it’s contributions to humanity!  Darwin Day is sponored by The University of Iowa Libraries.

Schedule of Events

March 3rd-4th, 2017

(all events free and open to the public)

Friday, March 3
Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building
2PM	Darwin Day Poster Session + Reception
3PM	Anne Fausto-Sterling: “Acquiring Gender: From Baby in a Yellow Hat to Gender Identity and Expression”
3:45PM	Richard Wrangham: “Self-domestication in bonobos and humans”
4:30PM	Intermission/Reception
4:45PM	Rosemary and Peter Grant: “In Search of the Causes of Evolution” Peter and Rosemary Grant are Princeton University Professors Emeriti who have spent more than 40 years studying Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands. Among many other awards, they are winners of the Darwin-Wallace medal and the Kyoto Prize. The Grants are the authors of more than 100 scientific papers, and their work was the primary subject of the award-winning book “The Beak of the Finch” by Johnathan Weiner.
Saturday, March 4
MacBride Auditorium
9AM	Opening Reception (coffee and pastries)
9:30AM	Mary Kosloski: “Crushing crabs and sinistral snails: how a super predator changed snail shape” The University of Iowa’s own Mary Kosloski is a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. A paleoecologist, Dr. Kosloski studies how environments influence the evolution of animal morphologies, particularly among marine gastropods. Because her research deals with long- and short-term responses to environmental change, it is highly relevant to many present-day conservation and ecological concerns.
10AM	Rosemary and Peter Grant: “40 Years of Evolution. A long-term study of Darwin’s Finches in Galápagos.”
11AM	Richard Wrangham: “How cooking made us human” Richard Wrangham is a Professor at Harvard University and founder of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project. A biological anthropologist and primatologist, he is best known for his work on the role of cooking in human evolution and on the evolution of human warfare. He is the author of two popular science books, Demonic Males and Catching Fire.
12PM	Anne Fausto-Sterling: “Evolution and Gender in the 21st Century” Anne Fausto-Sterling, Professor Emerita at Brown University, is known for her work in various areas of evolution and development, including her criticism of the nature vs. nurture dichotomy, her study of the relationship between science and gender, and her research in the area of childhood gender differentiation. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the author of three books, including Sexing the Body and Myths of Gender.
1PM	Darwin Day Birthday Celebration (Hall of Birds)
2-5PM	NCSE Teaching Workshop (106 BBE; “Darwin Day 2017 Teacher Workshop: Teaching NGSS Evolution Without a Budget” A 3-hour workshop addressing content and process with NGSS alignment- and an eye for supply costs

 

Special Collections and the Iowa Bibliophiles will be hosting a reception and open house extravaganza the evening of Wednesday March 8, 2017 celebrating the arrival of the traveling exhibition Open*Set while providing an opportunity […]