Too Hot Not To Handle
Too Hot Not To Handle
March 27, 2008 [NOTE DATE CHANGE]
6:30 PM
Hodges Library 253
A primer on global warming, TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE features contributions from leading scientists in the field. In addition to in-depth discussions of such subjects as the greenhouse effect, hurricanes, snowpack, hybrid vehicles, and alternative power sources, the film shows how businesses, local governments, and citizens are taking positive actions to reduce global warming emissions.
Read an interview with the producer>>
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:50 PM
Why Sex?
Why Sex?
February 18, 2008
6:30 PM
Hodges Library 253
Run time: 1 hour
In evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself. Sex fuels evolutionary change by adding variation to the gene pool. The powerful urge to pass our genes on to the next generation has likely changed the face of human culture in ways we're only beginning to understand.
The advantages of Sex>>
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:51 PM
The Last Antibiotics: Late Lessons from Early Warnings
The Last Antibiotics
April 10, 2008
6:30 PM
Hodges Library 253
The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved with the issue--including Tufts University microbiology professor Stuart Levy and Eva Nathanson of the World Health Organization's Stop TB Program--the film examines the implications of antibiotic-enhanced livestock feed and the dangers that staphylococcus poses to hospital patients. Viewer discretion advised. Contains footage of injections, surgeries, and open wounds.
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:49 PM
Sexual Selection
Sexual selection in primates : new and comparative perspectives / edited by Peter M. Kappeler & Carel P. van Schaik.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL737.P9 * S444 2004
A red bird in a brown bag : the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the House Finch / Geoffrey E. Hill.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL696.P246 * H56 2002
Katydids and bush-crickets : reproductive behavior and evolution of the Tettigoniidae / Darryl T. Gwynne.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL508.T4 * G89 2001
Promiscuity : an evolutionary history of sperm competition / Tim Birkhead.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .B57 2000
The evolution of avian breeding systems / J. David Ligon ; original illustrations by Mike Ramos.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL698.3 * .L494 1999
Sperm competition and sexual selection / edited by T.R. Birkhead and A.P. Møller.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QP255 * .S638 1998
Sex, color, and mate choice in guppies / Anne E. Houde.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL638.P73 * H67 1997
Partnerships in birds : the study of monogamy / edited by Jeffrey M. Black ; drawings by Mark Hulme.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL698.3 * .P38 1996
Female control : sexual selection by cryptic female choice / William G. Eberhard.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .E23 1996
Sexual selection / Malte Andersson.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .A53 1994
Origins of nature's beauty / essays by Alexander F. Skutch ; illustrations by Dana Gardner.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL698.3 * .S557 1992
The ant and the peacock : altruism and sexual selection from Darwin to today / Helena Cronin.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .C76 1991
Sexual selection / James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QL761 * .G68 1989
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:48 PM
Climate Change
Global climate change and U.S. law / Michael B. Gerrard, editor.
Hodges Library = Stacks * KF3775 * .G58 2007
Analysis of global change assessments : lessons learned / Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * N352 2007
With speed and violence : why scientists fear tipping points in climate change / Fred Pearce.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * P415 2007
The climate of past interglacials / edited by Frank Sirocko ... [et al.].
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC884 * .C5756 2007
Climate Prediction and Agriculture [electronic resource] : Advances and Challenges / edited by Mannava V. K. Sivakumar, James Hansen.
Hot House [electronic resource] : Global Climate Change and the Human Condition / by Robert Strom.
Climate change and managed ecosystems [electronic resource] / edited by J.S. Bhatti ... [et al.].
Extreme floods : a history in a changing climate / Robert Doe.
Hodges Library = Stacks * GB1399.5.G7 * D64 2006
The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge / Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * D69 2006
The Future of Sustainability [electronic resource] / edited by Marco Keiner.
Climate change and global food security / edited by R. Lal ... [et al.].
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * S600.7.C54 * C6524 2005
Climate change : turning up the heat / A. Barrie Pittock.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * P58 2005
Perspectives on climate change : science, economics, politics, ethics / edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Richard Howarth.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * P47 2005
Beyond Kyoto: A New Global Climate Certificate System [electronic resource] : Continuing Kyoto Commitments or a Global Cap and Trade Scheme for a Sustainable Climate Policy? / by Lutz Wicke.
Climate change : a natural hazard / William Kininmonh.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * K55 2004
Climate change : five years after Kyoto / editor Velma I. Grover.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * C5153 2004
The crowded greenhouse : population, climate change, and creating a sustainable world / John Firor and Judith Jacobsen.
Hodges Library = Stacks * HB849.415 * .F57 2002
Global climate change / edited by Sharon L. Spray & Karen L. McGlothlin.
Ag-Vet. Med Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * G645 2002
Climate change : a multidisciplinary approach / William James Burroughs.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * B86 2001
Climate change : science, strategies, & solutions
Hodges Library = Stacks * QC981.8.C5 * C611 2001
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:33 PM
Antibiotics and MRSA
Enzyme-mediated resistance to antibiotics : mechanisms, dissemination, and prospects for inhibition / editors, Robert A. Bonomo, Marcelo Tolmasky.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .E59 2007
Pneumonia before antibiotics : therapeutic evolution and evaluation in twentieth-century America / Scott H. Hodges Library = Stacks * RC771 * .P72 2006
Antibiotic policies : theory and practice / edited by Ian M. Gould and Jos W.M. van der Meer.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .A495 2005
Revenge of the microbes : how bacterial resistance is undermining the antibiotic miracle / Abigail A. Salyers and Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .S26 2005
Frontiers in antimicrobial resistance : a tribute to Stuart B. Levy / editors, David G. White, Michael N. Alekshun, Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .F76 2005
Magic bullets, lost horizons [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of antibiotics / Sebastian G.B. Amyes.
University Electronic Library = Electronic resource
The antibiotic paradox : how the misuse of antibiotics destroys their curative powers / Stuart B. Levy.
Hodges Library = Stacks * QR177 * .L48 2002
Overkill : how our nation's abuse of antibiotics and other germ killers is hurting your health and what you can do about it / Kimberly M. Thompson, with Debra Fulghum Bruce ; foreword by George D. Lundberg.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RA643 * .T48 2002
Magic bullets, lost horizons : the rise and fall of antibiotics / Sebastian G.B. Amyes.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .A49 2001
Launching the antibiotic era : personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics / edited by Carol Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .L38 1990
Germs that won't die : medical consequences of the misuse of antibiotics / Marc Lappé.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .L36
Wonder drugs, a history of antibiotics. Translated from the German by Einhart Kawerau.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .B613 1963
Miracle drugs and the new age of medicine.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM262 * .R4 1962
Men, molds, and history.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RM267 * .M29
Penicillin and other antibiotic agents, by Wallace E. Herrell.
Hodges Library = Stacks * RS165.P38 * H4
MRSA in practice / Ian M. Gould.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR201.S68 M775 2007
Infection control in home care and hospice / Emily Rhinehart, Mary McGoldrick Friedman.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA645.3 .R46 2006
The economics of infectious disease / edited by Jennifer A. Roberts.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA643 .E26 2006
Hospital infection : from Miasmas to MRSA / Graham A.J. Ayliffe and Mary P. English.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA969 .A953 2003
MRSA : current perspectives / edited by Ad C. Fluit and Franz-Josef Schmitz.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: QR201 .S68 M78 2003
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:09 PM
Biology Nights: Fall 2007
Typhoid Mary
September 26
6:30-8:00
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
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Confessions of a Germ: The Plague
October 25
6:30-8:00
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
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(Double Feature!)
The Killer Flu
The Last Antibiotics
November 14
6:30-8:00
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:40 AM
Are there vaccines?
Many thanks to everyone who attended the film tonight.
Someone asked if the vaccine has become a reality.
From the CDC site, it mentions that the vaccine is not commercially available in the US.
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Thanks!
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New combination vaccine effective against plague
New combination vaccine effective against plague
Disease/Infection News
Published: Wednesday, 18-May-2005
Plague, a bacterium that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages and is today one of the most feared potential agents of bio-terrorism, may have met its match, according to Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientists.
Steven B. Mizel, Ph.D., principal investigator, told the American Gastroenterological Association meeting in Chicago that when mice immunized with a new combination vaccine were challenged with a lethal dose of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, "the immune mice survived but the control mice succumbed in three days."
Mizel and his graduate student, Anna Honko, found that injecting a protein taken from plague bacteria into a mouse - one method of vaccination - produces little if any response in the mouse immune system. But if a protein termed flagellin is added to the vaccine, antibody levels against the plague bacteria are 500,000 times higher.
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http://www.news-medical.net/?id=10193
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:55 PM
Scientists edge closer to a vaccine for plague
By Eric NagourneyPublished: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
Researchers say they have taken a step toward developing a reliable vaccine against the plague.
The disease takes two forms: bubonic, which is spread by flea bites, and the more serious pneumonic, which is spread in the air. Government officials are concerned that it could also be used as a weapon.
Read more>>
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/18/healthscience/snvital.php
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:52 PM
New case of bubonic plague in N.M.
SANTA FE (AP) - New Mexico has another case of bubonic plague, the fifth this year. The state Department of Health has confirmed the case in a 58-year-old woman who lives in the mountains east of Albuquerque in Bernalillo County.
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http://kob.com/article/stories/S210003.shtml?cat=516
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:47 PM
Deadly Toxins Involved in Mishaps
Reports reveal dozens of accidents involving deadliest toxins at U.S. labs
By LARRY MARGASAK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON | American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003 -- including five in Kansas City.
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http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/300842.html
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:44 PM
Plague Vaccine Agreement Signed
A joint, multi-nation project arrangement between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of National Defence of Canada, and the Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was announced today for the cooperative development of a vaccine to protect against plague. Under this agreement, the three nations will work together to develop and produce a plague vaccine that will ultimately be licensed for human use.
The defense establishments of the United States and the U.K. have each maintained active plague vaccine research and development efforts since the 1990s. Relevant plague vaccine development information has been shared among the U.S., U.K., and Canada under provisions of a memorandum of understanding between the three nations since 2000.
The U.K. plague vaccine candidate is a purified subunit vaccine containing the F1 and V antigens purified separately from recombinant Escherichia coli and then mixed together, while the DoD vaccine candidate contains the F1 and V antigens linked together as a fusion protein. The F1V fusion protein candidate was pioneered by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The DoD program is now managed by the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program in the office of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.
Testing of the U.K. plague vaccine candidate in the United States under the joint project arrangement is expected to begin in late 2005 with a phase one clinical trial to be performed in accordance with regulations administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The DoD plague vaccine candidate began phase one clinical trials, at the University of Kentucky, in the first quarter of 2005. This joint effort will continue until late 2005, at which time the DoD will evaluate both vaccine candidates and select one for continued advanced development.
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=8397
Posted by Donna Braquet at 07:42 PM
September 26: The Most Dangerous Women in America
In August of 1906, a mysterious cluster of typhoid fever cases erupted in a very unlikely setting--a summer house in wealthy Oyster Bay, Long Island. Typhoid fever, a bacterial disease spread by poor sanitation, was associated with slums and poverty, not wealthy communities. About 10 percent of those infected, died.
The owner hired a civil engineer, (George Soper) to discover the source of the disease, and the engineer soon focused on the new cook, Mary Mallon. In tracing her employment history, Soper found that typhoid outbreaks followed her wherever she was employed.
Website about the Documentary
What is Typhoid Fever?
Articles:
The Sad and Tragic Life of Typhoid Mary [link]
Books:
About Mary
Typhoid Mary : an urban historical / by Anthony Bourdain.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B68 2001
Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 L43 1996
The ballad of Typhoid Mary / J.F. Federspiel ; translated by Joel Agee.
Hodges Library / Stacks: PT2666.E37 B313 1983
Typhoid fever, its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention / William Budd.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B8 1977
Fighting for life [by] S. Josephine Baker, M.D.
Hodges Library / Stacks: HV28.B3 A3
Treatment of Immigrants:
Erin's daughters in America : Irish immigrant women in the nineteenth century / Hasia R. Diner.
Hodges Library / Stacks: H31 .J62 v.101 no.2
Fit to be citizens? : public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / Natalia Molina.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.4 .M65 2006
Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" / Alan M. Kraut.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.5.I44 K73 1994
Spread of Disease:
Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history / J. N. Hays.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA649 .H293 2005
Mapping epidemics : a historical atlas of disease / Brent H. Hoff and Carter Smith III ; Charles H. Calisher
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RA792 .H64 2000
Medicine:
Launching the antibiotic era : personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics / edited by Carol
Hodges Library / Stacks: RM267 .L38 1990
Management of multiple drug-resistant infections / edited by Stephen H. Gillespie.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .M36 2004
Medicine at the border : disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present / edited by Alison Bashford
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA441 .M44 2006
Working through an outbreak : pandemic flu planning and continuity of operations : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 11, 2006.
Pandemic planning update II [electronic resource] : a report from Secretary Michael O. Leavitt.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:03 PM
October 25: Confessions of a Germ--The Plague
Gruesome, swift, and devastating, the Black Death is aptly named. In this program, plague tells its chilling story, recounting its infamous epidemic outbreaks through the ages and detailing its grim pathology. Differences between bubonic and pneumonic forms are explained and illustrated with dramatizations of plague victims and interviews with survivors. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plague specialists Drs. Kenneth Gage and David Dennis discuss the battle in the American Southwest to contain this deadly pathogen. Dr. Ken Alibek, former director of the Soviet bioweapons program, and other experts look at the threat of plague's use in the future. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes) -from the Films for Humanities and Sciences website
Websites
Black Death, British Brodcasting Co.
The Great Plague, British TV Channel 4
Books
The first horseman : disease in human history / John Aberth.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RA643 .A24 2007
Plague ports : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901 / Myron Echenberg.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RA644.P7 E34 2006
The Black Death, 1346-1353 : the complete history / Ole J. Benedictow.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC172 .B46 2004
Return of the Black Death : the world's greatest serial killer / Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC171 .S36 2004
Famine and pestilence in the late Roman and early Byzantine empire : a systematic survey of subsistence crises and epidemics / Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos.
Hodges Library / Stacks: R135 .S794 2004
Plague : a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away / Edward Marriott.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC172 .M374 2003
Plague's progress : a social history of man and disease / Arno Karlen.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RA651 .K37 1995
The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time / John Kelly.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC172 .K445 2005
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:08 PM
November 14: Influenza and The Last Antibiotics (Double Feature)
Resources on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918>>
Resources on the overuse of Antibiotics>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:42 PM
Resources on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
>>Did you know that the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 killed more people than World War I? Find out more...
Web Resources
Watch me first!>> The 1918 Flu, New York Times Multimedia Website
The Deadly Virus, a website from the US National Archives
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics, from the Center for Disease Control
1918 Influenza Pandemic, Nature journal
Images from the 1918 Flu Pandemic, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Primary Resources
Advertisement for medicine to cure THE GRIP, New York Times
Spanish Influenza is Raging in the German Army, July 27, 1918, New York Times
Germans with Fever Drop in Tracks, July 9, 1918, New York Times
Spanish Influenza Continues Ravages, September 18, 1918, Altanta Constitution
Health Department Announcement Gives Instructions in Ways to Avoid the Infection, September 27, 1918, New York Times
72,327 GRIPPE Cases in U.S. Army Camps, October 1, 1918, Atlanta Constitution
3,000,000 People Died of Influenza, December 20, 1918, New York Times
Scientists Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu, January 18, 2007, New York Times
Books in the UT Libraries
Britain and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic : a dark epilogue / Niall Johnson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.6.G7 J64 2006
The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .B37 2005
Fever of war : the influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I / Carol R. Byerly.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .B946 2005
The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC150.4 .B37 2004
America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 C76 2003
Hunting the 1918 flu : one scientist's search for a killer virus / Kirsty Duncan.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.6 .N8 D86 2003
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 [electronic resource] : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .S66 2003
The devil's flu : the world's deadliest influenza epidemic and the scientific hunt for the virus that caused it / Pete Davies.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 D38 2000
Influenza 1918 : the worst epidemic in American history / Lynette Iezzoni ; foreword by David McCullough.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .I39 1999
Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it / Gina Kolata.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .K64 1999
Pandemic influenza, 1700-1900 : a study in historical epidemiology / K. David Patterson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .P38 1986
History, science, and politics : influenza in America, 1918-1976 / June E. Osborn, editor.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 H57
Epidemic and peace, 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.1 .C76
The plague of the Spanish lady : the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 / Richard Collier.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .C64 1974
Epidemic respiratory disease.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC734 .O6
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:22 PM
Resources on Overuse of Antibiotics
Websites
Overview of Antibiotics, MedlinePlus
The Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Antibiotic Resistance, Food and Drug Administration
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), MedlinePlus
Books in the UT Libraries
Revenge of the microbes : how bacterial resistance is undermining the antibiotic miracle / Abigail A. Salyers and Dixie D. Whitt.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .S26 2005
The new killer diseases : how the alarming evolution of mutant germs threatens us all / Elinor Levy and Mark Fischetti.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .L475 2003
The killers within : the deadly rise of drug-resistant bacteria / Michael Shnayerson, Mark J. Plotkin.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .S43 2002
Breaking the antibiotic habit [electronic resource] : a parent's guide to coughs, colds, ear infections, and sore throats
Magic bullets, lost horizons [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of antibiotics / Sebastian G.B. Amyes.
Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .B384 2003
Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC312 .R454 2002
Resolving the antibiotic paradox : progress in understanding drug resistance and development of new antibiotics / edited by Barry P. Rosen and Shahriar Mobashery.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .R47 1998
Antibiotic policies : theory and practice / edited by Ian M. Gould and Jos W.M. van der Meer.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RM267 .A495 2005
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:45 PM
April 11: An Inconvenient Truth
Doomsday Clock moved closer due to climate change and nuclear proliferation.
Resources about Climate Change:
VP Al Gore's Testimony to Congress on 3/21/07
BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
[in Science]
Climate Change
[in Nature]
Ecological debt : the health of the planet and the wealth of nations / Andrew Simms.
Hodges Library / Stacks: HC79.E5 S45 2005
Thermageddon : countdown to 2030 / Robert Hunter.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: QC981.8.G56 H87 2003
The science behind global warming : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, May 17, 2000.
Climate change and human health : risks and responses / editors, A. J. McMichael ... [et al.].
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA793 .C55 2003
The discovery of global warming / Spencer R. Weart.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QC981.8 .G56 W43 2003
Causes and consequences of globally warm climates in the early Paleogene / edited by Scott L. Hodges Library / Stacks: QE1 .G215 no.369
Global warming and other eco-myths : how the environmental movement uses false science to scare us to death / Ronald Bailey, editor.
Hodges Library / Stacks: GE195 .G58 2002
International environmental policy : interests and the failure of the Kyoto process / Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Aynsley Kellow.
Hodges Library / Stacks: GE170 .B64 2002
Controlling global warming [electronic resource] : perspectives from economics, game theory, and public choice / edited by Christoph Böhringer, Michael Finus, and Carsten Vogt.
World at risk : a global issues sourcebook.
Hodges Library / Stacks: JZ1242 .W67 2002
The greenhouse delusion : a critique of "climate change 2001" / Vincent Gray.
Hodges Library / Stacks: GE170 .G72 2002
Japan and China : cooperation, competition, and conflict / edited by Hanns Günther Hilpert and Hodges Library / Stacks: HF1602.15.C6 J357 2002
Democracy and global warming / Barry Holden.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QC981.8.G56 H65 2002
Energy policy / edited by Martha Hostetter.
Hodges Library / Stacks: HD9502.A2 E548 2002
2030 : confronting thermageddon in our lifetime / Robert Hunter.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: GF75 .H88 2002
The global warming desk reference / Bruce E. Johansen.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QC981.8.G56 J64 2002
Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change / Elizabeth Kolbert.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QC981.8.G56 K655 2006
The long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change , and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler.
Hodges Library / Stacks: TP355 .K86 2006
The environmental case : translating values into policy / Judith A. Layzer.
Hodges Library / Stacks: GE180 .L39 2006
Global climate change / edited by Paul McCaffrey.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QC981.8 .C5 G644 2006
Climate change, justice and future generations / Edward A. Page.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QC981.8 .C5 P34 2006
Atmospheric chemistry and physics : from air pollution to climate change / John H. Seinfeld, Spyros N. Pandis.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: QC879.6 .S45 2006
Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.
Hodges Library / Stacks: GE149 .S64 2004
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Biology Nights Spring 2007
The Most Dangerous Woman in the America
February 26
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
6:00 PM
Run Time: 1 hour
"Woman Cook a Walking Typhoid Fever Factory," said the headline in a New York City newspaper in 1907. The woman was Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant who as "Typhoid Mary" would become a notorious symbol of a public health menace. Mary Mallon's ordeal took place at a time when the new science of bacteriology was shaping public health policies in America for the first time, and her case continues to hold lessons amid today's heightened concerns about communicable diseases. -PBS website
[Additional Resources]
War on Science: Intelligent Design in the Classroom
March 29
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
6:00 PM
Run Time: 1 hour
Are advocates of the intelligent design theory really creationists in disguise? To what extent has the I.D. argument widened America's cultural divide? And if a clear winner emerges, who loses? This program thoroughly examines those questions, describing the theory's quasi-scientific origins and documenting the Pennsylvania court battle over teaching I.D. in biology classes. A historical overview of the creation vs. evolution debate in the United States is also included, highlighting 20th-century struggles over separation of church and state and the troubling implications these issues present for American education. -BBCW
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An Inconvenient Truth
April 11
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
6:00 PM
Run Time: 1 hour 36 mins
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. -An Inconvenient Truth website
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:50 AM
Typhoid Mary: Victim or Villian?
So, you have seen the film. What do you think?
What if you or a family member were quarantined?
When is quarantine justifiable and when is it not?
Was Mary unfairly treated?
Did her immigrant status have anything to do with her treatment?
Can you believe she was found working in a hospital kitchen?
Did you loose sympathy for Mary? If so, at what point in the film?
What does overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic resitant strains say about our future?
What tie-ins with your Biology class did you see mentioned in Typhoid Mary?
What else?
Use the COMMENT feature to leave your feedback....
Posted by Donna Braquet at 06:59 PM
February 26: Typhoid Mary
In August of 1906, a mysterious cluster of typhoid fever cases erupted in a very unlikely setting--a summer house in wealthy Oyster Bay, Long Island. Typhoid fever, a bacterial disease spread by poor sanitation, was associated with slums and poverty, not wealthy communities. About 10 percent of those infected, died.
The owner hired a civil engineer, (George Soper) to discover the source of the disease, and the engineer soon focused on the new cook, Mary Mallon. In tracing her employment history, Soper found that typhoid outbreaks followed her wherever she was employed.
Website about the Documentary
What is Typhoid Fever?
Articles:
The Sad and Tragic Life of Typhoid Mary [link]
Books:
About Mary
Typhoid Mary : an urban historical / by Anthony Bourdain.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B68 2001
Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 L43 1996
The ballad of Typhoid Mary / J.F. Federspiel ; translated by Joel Agee.
Hodges Library / Stacks: PT2666.E37 B313 1983
Typhoid fever, its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention / William Budd.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B8 1977
Fighting for life [by] S. Josephine Baker, M.D.
Hodges Library / Stacks: HV28.B3 A3
Treatment of Immigrants:
Erin's daughters in America : Irish immigrant women in the nineteenth century / Hasia R. Diner.
Hodges Library / Stacks: H31 .J62 v.101 no.2
Fit to be citizens? : public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / Natalia Molina.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.4 .M65 2006
Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" / Alan M. Kraut.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.5.I44 K73 1994
Spread of Disease:
Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history / J. N. Hays.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA649 .H293 2005
Mapping epidemics : a historical atlas of disease / Brent H. Hoff and Carter Smith III ; Charles H. Calisher
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RA792 .H64 2000
Medicine:
Launching the antibiotic era : personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics / edited by Carol
Hodges Library / Stacks: RM267 .L38 1990
Management of multiple drug-resistant infections / edited by Stephen H. Gillespie.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .M36 2004
Medicine at the border : disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present / edited by Alison Bashford
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA441 .M44 2006
Working through an outbreak : pandemic flu planning and continuity of operations : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 11, 2006.
Pandemic planning update II [electronic resource] : a report from Secretary Michael O. Leavitt.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:39 PM
March 29: War on Science: Intelligent Design in the Classroom
Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences
More Evolution Resources from The National Academies>>
When science & Christianity meet / edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL245 .B35 2003
Science and religion : a historical introduction / edited by Gary B. Ferngren.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL245 .S37 2002
Intelligent design and fundamentalist opposition to evolution / Angus M. Gunn.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BT712 .G86 2006
Monkey girl : evolution, education, religion, and the battle for America's soul / Edward Humes.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH362 .H86 2007
Living with Darwin : evolution, design, and the future of faith / Philip Kitcher.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH366.2 .K58 2007
Evolution and Christian faith : reflections of an evolutionary biologist / Joan Roughgarden.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS659 .R68 2006
The varieties of scientific experience : a personal view of the search for God / Carl Sagan
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL183 .S24 2006
Not in our classrooms : why intelligent design is wrong for our schools / edited by Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL263 .N68 2006
Why Darwin matters : the case against intelligent design / Michael Shermer.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH366.2 .S494 2006
Creationism's Trojan horse : the wedge of intelligent design / Barbara Forrest & Paul R. Gross.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS651 .S54 2004
God, the devil, and Darwin : a critique of intelligent design theory / Niall Shanks.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS651 .S54 2004
Why intelligent design fails : a scientific critique of the new creationism / edited by Matt Young, Taner Edis.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL240.3 .W49 2004
Law, Darwinism & public education : the establishment clause and the challenge of intelligent design / Francis J. Hodges Library / Stacks: KF4162 .B43 2003
Doubts about Darwin : a history of intelligent design / Thomas Woodward.
Hodges Library / Stacks: B818 .W76 2003
Darwin's proof : the triumph of religion over science / Cornelius G. Hunter.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BT712 .H87 2003
Defending evolution in the classroom : a guide to the creation/evolution controversy / Brian J. Alters, Sandra M. Alters.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH362 .A62 2001
The creation controversy & the science classroom.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS651 .C6923 2000
Darwinism, design, and public education / edited by John Angus Campbell, Stephen C. Meyer.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH362 .D37 2003
The creationist debate : the encounter between the Bible and the historical world / Arthur McCalla.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS652 .M233 2006
The creationists : from scientific creationism to intelligent design / Ronald L. Numbers.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS651 .N85 2006
The cultures of creationism : anti-evolutionism in English-speaking countries / edited by Simon Coleman and Leslie Carlin.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BS652 .C85 2004
Uncommon dissent : intellectuals who find Darwinism unconvincing / edited by William A. Dembski.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL263 .U53 2004
Bones of contention : a creationist assessment of human fossils / Marvin L. Lubenow.
Hodges Library / Stacks: GN282.5 .L82 2004
Trial and error : the American controversy over creation and evolution / Edward J. Larson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: KF4208.5.S34 L37 2003
Scopes Monkey Trial:
When science & Christianity meet / edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL245 .B35 2003
Science and religion : a historical introduction / edited by Gary B. Ferngren.
Hodges Library / Stacks: BL245 .S37 2002
The Scopes trial : a brief history with documents / Jeffrey P. Moran.
Special Collections / Rare books: KF224.S3 M67 2002
Selected, annotated bibliography of William Jennings Bryan, the Scopes trial, creation, and evolution / edited by R.M. Cornelius.
Special Collections / Rare books: KF224.S3 S44 2001
A defining moment for Dayton: the Scopes trial as an act of the theater of the modern / by Andrew Shane Nolan.
Special Collections / Rare books: F444 .D3 N66 2001a
Scopes trial : a photographic history / introduction by Edward Caudill ; photo captions by Special Collections / Univ. Archives: KF224.S3 C38 2000
Special Collections / Rare books: KF224.S3 C38 2000
Impact : the Scopes trial, William Jennings Bryan and issues that keep revolving / edited by Special Collections / Rare books: KF224 .S3 I4 2000
You be the judge / compiled by Timothy C. Cruver ; edited by Janet M. Cruver.
Special Collections / Rare books: KF224 .S3 C78 2000
Scopes : creation on trial / R.M. Cornelius and John D. Morris.
Special Collections / Rare books: KF224 .S3 C67 1999
The world's most famous court trial : Tennessee evolution case.
Special Collections / Rare books: KF224.S3 B7 1990
Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:33 PM
April 20: Natural Connections
About the Film
In celebration of Earth Day (April 22), please join us for Natural Connections.
Film Reviews:
"Astonishingly beautiful documentary...With gorgeous photography, straightforward writing and enthusiastic participation by scientists who don't come off as pedants...a wake-up call that is riveting and startling, but, more important, congenial, considerate and convincing." Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A beautifully produced and effective piece." Edward O. Wilson, Honorary Curator of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and author of "Biophilia" and "The Diversity of Life"
Time:
Film starts at 6:00 ; Brief Discussion at 7:00
Film repeat at 7:30 ; Brief Discussion at 8:30
Location:
Lindsay Young Auditorium (Hodges Library 101)
**NOTE: Seating is limited to 150**
Check-out for individual viewing (in Library only) is available at the Media Center (2nd Floor)
Videocassette: QH541.15 .B56 N39 1999 **
Additional Resources about Ecology and Biodiversity:
Ecology : from individuals to ecosystems
Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend, John L. Harper
Hodges Library QH541 .B415 2006
Handbook of biodiversity methods : survey, evaluation and monitoring
edited by David Hill ... [et al.]
Hodges Library QH541.15.B56 H363 2005
Climate change and biodiversity
edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy & Lee Hannah
Hodges Library QH541.15.B56 C62 2005
Heirloom seeds and their keepers : marginality and memory in the conservation of biological diversity
Virginia D. Nazarea
Ag-Vet. Med Library SB117 .N189 2005
Biodiversity and environmental philosophy : an introduction
Sahotra Sarkar
Hodges Library GE40 .S27 2005
Philosophy and biodiversity
edited by Markku Oksanen, Juhani Pietarinen
Hodges Library QH541.15.B56 P48 2004
Harnessing markets for biodiversity : towards conservation and sustainable use
Hodges Library HF5413 .H37 2003
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:21 PM | Comments (1)
March 16: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Time:
Film starts at 6:00 ; Brief Discussion at 7:00
Film repeat at 7:30 ; Brief Discussion at 8:30
Location:
Lindsay Young Auditorium (Hodges Library 101)
**NOTE: Seating is limited to 150**
Check-out for individual viewing (in Library only) is available at the Media Center (2nd Floor)
Videocassette: QH545 .P4 R32 1993 **
About the Film>>
Additional Resources:
What a book can do: the publication and reception of Silent spring
by Priscilla Coit Murphy
Hodges Library QH545.P4 M87 2005
American women conservationists : twelve profiles
by Madelyn Holmes
Hodges Library QH26.H66 2004
Rachel carson's silent spring
Alex MacGillivray
Hodges Library SB951.M35 2004
At home on this earth : two centuries of U.S. women's nature writing
edited by Lorraine Anderson and Thomas S. Edwards.
Hodges Library PS509.N3 A8 2002
And no birds sing [electronic resource]: rhetorical analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
edited by Craig Waddell
Women pioneers for the environment
by Mary Joy Breton.
Hodges Library GE55 .B74 1998
Lost woods : the discovered writing of Rachel Carson
edited by Linda Lear.
Hodges Library QH81 .C3546 1998
The edge of the sea
Rachel Carson
Hodges Library Stacks QH95.7 .C385 1998
Natural eloquence : women reinscribe science
edited by Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir.
Hodges Library Q130 .S39 1997
Rachel Carson : witness for nature
by Linda Lear
Hodges Library QH31.C33 L43 1997
Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer.
Hodges Reference QH26.N68 1996
Always, Rachel: the letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964
edited by Martha Freeman.
Hodges Library QH31.C33 A4 1995
Rachel Carson
Hodges Library QH31.C33 M34 1993
The recurring silent spring
by H. Patricia Hynes
Hodges Library QH545.P4 H96 1989
Silent spring revisited
edited by Gino J. Marco, Robert M. Hollingworth, and William Durham.
QH545.P4S55 1987
Ag-Vet. Med Library QH545.P4 S55 1987
Rachel Carson
by Carol B. Gartner
Hodges Library QH31.C33 G37 1983
The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
with selections from her writings published and unpublished.
Hodges Library QH31.C33 B7
Sea and earth; the life of Rachel Carson
Hodges Library QH91.3.C3 S74
The sense of wonder
by Rachel Carson
Hodges Library QH51 .C35
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Hodges Library SB951 .C47 1962
The sea around us
by Rachel L. Carson.
Hodges Library GC21 .C3 1961
The edge of the sea
by Rachel L. Carson.
Hodges Library QH91 .C3
Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:09 PM
March 2: The Last Stand
The Last Stand: Ancient Redwoods and the Bottom Line
>>about the film
The last stand : the war between Wall Street and Main Street over California’s ancient redwoods
by David Harris
Hodges Library HD9759.P3 H37 1995
The legacy of Luna : the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods
by Julia Butterfly Hill
Ag-Vet. Med Library SD129.H53 A3 2000
Knock on wood : nature as commodity in Douglas fir country
by W. Scott Prudham
Hodges Library HD9757.N95 P78 2005
The secret wars of Judi Bari : a car bomb, the fight for the redwoods, and the end of Earth First!
by Kate Coleman
Hodges Library GE56.B37 C65 2005
The redwood forest : history, ecology, and conservation of the coast redwoods
edited by Reed F. Noss
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: SD397.R3 R455 2000
The fight to save the redwoods : a history of environmental reform, 1917-1978
by Susan R. Schrepfer
Ag-Vet. Med Library SD397.R3 S37 1983
Logging the redwoods
by Lynwood Carranco and John T. Labbe
Ag-Vet. Med Library SD397.R3 C35
The last redwoods; photographs and story of a vanishing scenic resource
by Philip Hyde and François Leydet
Hodges Library (Oversize) SD397.R3 H9
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:34 PM
February 9: HUMAN RACE
The story begins in 1990, when the Human Genome Project was launched to decipher the complete instruction manual of the human being. This epic endeavour took over a decade to complete and cost billions of dollars. Eight years after its launch, a rival private bid was announced in an attempt to shut the public project down. A personal feud erupted between Craig Venter, who ran Celera's privately funded Genome Project, and Sir John Sulston, who oversaw Britain's share of the public Human Genome Project. Craig Venter believed he could finish the Human Genome several years before the public project. The fighting became so intense that President Clinton stepped in to try to unite the two sides. Clinton asked a go-between to sort out the two warring groups. Over pizza and beer in a basement, the two sides agreed to a cease-fire. They would announce their draft results -- together -- in a joint celebration hosted by The White House in June 2000. -From the PBS website
>>more about the film
Library Resources:
Encoding capital : the political economy of the Human Genome Project
by Rodney Loeppky
Hodges Library QH445.2 .L64 2005
A machine to make a future : biotech chronicles
by Paul Rabinow and Talia Dan-Cohen
Hodges Library QH445.2 .R336 2005
The genome war : how Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world
by James Shreeve
Hodges Library QH431 .S5577 2004
Adam, Eve, and the genome : the Human Genome Project and theology edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Hodges Library QH438.7 .A32 2003
Perilous knowledge : the human genome project and its implications by Tom Wilkie
Hodges Library QH445.2 .W55 1994
Websites:
Nature
The science journal's special feature commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA structure.
DNA Interactive
An animated journey through DNA history and science.
DNA from the Beginning
An interactive history of genetic science with biographies, animations, puzzles, and more.
Genetic Science Learning Center
Providing curricula and professional development for teachers, and science enrichment and career programs for students.
Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA
An American perspective on the hunt for the double helix.
History of DNA Timeline
Timeline of DNA history.
Human Genome Project Timeline BBC
Timeline of the race to decode human DNA.
Genetic Engineering Debates
Resources and arguments concerning the latest advancements in genetic science.
Genetically Engineered Organisms
Extensive information on the debate surrounding genetically modified crops and organisms.
Basics of DNA Fingerprinting
The structure and function of DNA as it relates to DNA fingerprinting.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:36 PM
Spring Semester: Biology Nights @ the Library
Biology Nights @ the Library
Film starts at 6:00 ; Brief Discussion at 7:00
By Popular Demand! Film repeat at 7:30 ; Brief Discussion at 8:30
Location:
Lindsay Young Auditorium (Hodges Library 101)
**NOTE: Seating is limited to 150**
Check-out for individual viewing (in Library only) is available at the Media Center (2nd Floor)**
Films:
February 9
Human Race, run time 55 mins
Hodges Media Center / DVD: QP624 .D12 2003
March 2
The Last Stand, run time 57 mins
Hodges Media Center / DVD: SD397 .R3 L38 2000
March 16
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, run time 57 mins
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: QH545 .P4 R32 1993
April 20
Natural Connections, run time 46 mins
Hodges Media Center / Videocassette: QH541.15 .B56 N39 1999
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:53 AM
Photos of October's Biology Night
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:16 AM
DNA: Playing God
November 10, 2005
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library, 1st Floor
5:30 Meet & Greet
6:00 Film
7:00 Discussion and Info Exchange (Present your favorite science magazine or journal)
7:30 Library Q&A and Consultations with the Life Sciences Librarian
Watch a preview>>
"Biotechnology would soon transform the pharmaceutical industry and genetically modified food was to herald the biggest revolution in agriculture since the industrialization of farming. Yet the public was skeptical, and so were certain scientists. Some feared that a cancer-causing gene stitched into the DNA of a bacterium might be accidentally absorbed in the human gut, enabling cancer to be passed on like an infectious disease. Biologists from all over the world were called to a meeting in California to draw up a strict set of safety guidelines." [PBS website]
Websites:
Boyer & Cohen's patent
Human Genome Project Information, ORNL
Gene Map of the Human Genome, NCBI
Pioneers of Molecualar Biology: Herb Boyer, Time Magazine
Books about:
Human Genome Project
Genetic Engineering- Moral and Ethical Aspects
Genetic Engineering- Social Aspects
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:49 PM | Comments (3)
The Secret of Photo 51
October 20, 2005
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library, 1st Floor
5:30 Meet & Greet (light refreshments)
6:00 Film
7:00 Discussion and Info Exchange (Present your own blog or website)
7:30 Library Q&A and Consultations with the Life Sciences Librarian
About the Film [PBS website]
"On April 25, 1953, the science journal Nature announced that James Watson and Francis Crick had discovered the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that is fundamental to life. But absent from most accounts of their Nobel Prize-winning work is the contribution made by a scientist—molecular biologist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin—who would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a key piece of her data without her permission and that it would lead them to the double helix."
"Ironically, her role in one of the most important discoveries in the history of science was hidden even from her, since she never knew that Photo 51 sparked the final insight that led to the solution of the double helix."
Websites about Rosalind Franklin:
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Contributions of 20th Century Women
Articles about Franklin:
The Twisted Road to the Double Helix, Scientific American
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentus Discoveries, National Academies Press
Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix, Physics Today
Light on a Dark Lady, Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Books about Franklin:
Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA / Brenda Maddox
Hodges Library / Stacks: QH506.F72 M33 2002
Rosalind Franklin and DNA / Anne Sayre
Hodges Library / Stacks: QP26.F68 S29 1975
Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary / edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer
Hodges Reference / Reference: QH26 .N68 1996
Listen to an interview about Rosalind Franklin on NPR.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:49 PM
Evolution: Great Transformations
September 15, 2005
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library, 1st Floor
5:30 Meet & Greet (light refreshments)
6:00 Film
7:00 Discussion and Info Exchange (Present your favorite science blog or website)
7:30 Library Q&A and Consultations with the Life Sciences Librarian
Websites:
Evolution resources from the National Academies of Science
Understanding Evolution: An Evolution Website for Teachers, University of California Museum of Paleontology
Darwin Day at UT
Articles:
Teaching the Science of Evolution, Cell Biology Education
Books:
about Charles Darwin
about The Scopes Monkey Trial
about Mammalian Evolution
Evolution and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences (free online)
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:48 PM