When people feel they are not being represented—that their voices and experiences don’t matter, when they feel there is a great wrong in the world, and when they have simply […]
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Pop-up Mapathon for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Hurricane Disaster Relief Mapathon Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:00-5:30 p.m. Great Hall, Levering The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries has organized a pop-up mapathon to offer immediate support to on-the-ground relief efforts in […]
Melania Trump’s Inaugural Gown: The Ugandan Perspective
Those of us who have the inclination (and courage) to follow U.S. and global news stories in the many American and European media outlets available to us, may feel that […]
My Solo Travels in Greece: A POC in Paradise, Part II
Part II: WOC in the World This is the second part of my travelogue regarding my trip to Greece back in May 2017. The first installment is Part I: Microaggressions […]
My Solo Travels in Greece: A POC in Paradise
Part I: Microaggressions in Mykonos When I was asked to write a travelogue on my two-week sojourn to Greece, I could not help but write this through a lens of […]
Patents — Amaze Your Friends!
Patents are historical, technical, artistic, ground-breaking, legally binding, creative, and revealing. Patents are incredibly cool, and extremely useful. What’s a patent? A patent is the right to keep other people […]
Get Paid For Research This Summer with DURA
Want to do original research over the summer and get paid for it? Apply for one of the Sheridan Libraries’ Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards (DURA). The awards are designed to […]
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The library has access to a really interesting, unique and incredibly useful online resource. It goes by the curious acronym of PEP, but its actual title is more illuminating – […]
Drawing and Believing: Blindfolds and Blind Faith
by Alicia Puglionesi, PhD Recipient (History of Medicine) and former fellow, Special Collections Research Center In Drawing and Believing, part 1, we met George Albert Smith, a British psychic medium, […]
Google NGram Viewer — “Culturomics”?
The NGram Viewer from Google made a splash when it was introduced in December of 2010. It is essentially a data-mining application that enables queries against Google’s massive digitized books […]