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If you get a chance, check out the exhibit “ Maker: People, Places, Things ” currently being showcased at the Smith Scarabocchio Art Museum.  I attended the opening reception last Friday, and found it inspiring to say the least.  I was fortunate enough to talk to the featured artist, Wendy (Schmidt) Hynes and her husband, Morgan Hynes.  Both have a wealth of experience in makerspaces and I could have picked their brains all night for nuggets of information.  The gem that hit me over the head was a comment made by Wendy when I shared our ideas; “sounds like you guys need to stop discussing, and just start doing!”  Yeah, that made me pause for a moment. Could we really just start doing?  “Photo from the exhibit “Maker: People, Places, Things” by Wendy (Schmidt) Hynes” The more I thought about it, the more I realized that we are actually already DOING.  And while officially we have never called it a makerspace, I think we have more than a foundation in place.  It’s a matt

The Internet of Things By Samuel Greengard Call Number:  TK7895.E43 G74 2015  Review from THE Times Higher Education Publisher's Description :   We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a “smart” supply chain. When we get home, the thermostat has already adjusted the temperature so that it’s toasty or bracing, whichever we prefer. This is the Internet of Things—a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people. In this book, Samuel Greengard offers a guided tour through this emerging world and how it will change the way we live and work. Greengard explains that the Internet of Things (IoT) is still in its early stages. Smart phones, cloud computing, RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology, sensors, and miniaturization are

The University Library, along with the Office for Academic Affairs, looks forward to hosting the 7 th Annual Faculty/Staff Scholarly and Creative Works Symposium and Reception on Thursday, April 7 th (4:30-6:30 p.m.) in Room 650 (Library). We are thrilled to have a faculty representative from each college as our featured presenters, with opening remarks from  Todd Huspeni , Interim AVC for Teaching, Learning and Academic Programs.   Alex Ingersoll  Communication  (CoFAC)   Vera Klekovkina   World Languages  (CoLS)   Holly Schmies   Health Care Professions (CPS)   Jason Riddle   Wildlife Ecology  (CNR)                              The intention of this event is to celebrate and showcase the work of our campus colleagues. While we may know what our department colleagues have done in the area of scholarship and creative works, we don’t always know about the work of our colleagues in other departments or colleges. Having the opportunity to

Excellent daughters : the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world    By Katherine Zoepf   Call Number:  HQ 1784 .Z64 2016   Review from the New York Times Sunday Book Review   Publisher's Description : For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West scarcely existed in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. Hundreds of thousands of devout girls and women are attending Qur’anic schools—and using the training to argue for greater freedoms from an Islamic perspective. And, in 2011, young women helped to lead anti-govern

The University Library Celebrates Women’s History Month featuring guest speaker, Valentina Peguero, PhD, UWSP Emeritus Professor - History Department. March 16, 2016, 7:00 p.m. University Library – 900 Reserve St. Reference Studio (1 st flr) Please join us for Dr. Peguero’s presentation, “Dominican Pioneer Women: Accomplishments and Diversity.” This event is free and all are invited. Valentina Peguero received her PhD from Columbia University in New York City. Her latest publication, Mujeres pioneras Dominicanas : datos biográficos y bibliográficos , is an encyclopedia about pioneer women of the Dominican Republic. Her other publications include Japanese Immigration to the Dominican Republic , Caribbean Women's Grassroots Organizations: Real and Imagined Female Figures in the Dominican Republic , and The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic .