HAPPY 52nd BIRTHDAY RALPH FIENNES! (12/22/1962 - 12/22/2014)

Women Scientists on the New Book Shelf

Just to be clear, there are only books on the new book shelf - not people.  But some of those books were written by and about women, and, as Women’s History Month draws to a close, we call attention to a few.  Follow the links to see the catalog record and contents, reviews, etc., for each:

Rebels, scholars, explorers : women in vertebrate paleontology / Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner

The story of life in 10 ½ species / Marianne Taylor

Human / Amanda Rees and Charlotte Sleigh

Our biosocial brains : the cultural neuroscience of bias, power, and injustice / Michele K. Lewis

Books on display are just a small sliver of new books available!  Browse online, using the “New in the Science Library” guide (depicted above); one of many “General Purpose Guides” in the Research Tools section of the library website.  Tens of thousands of more books are available from OBIS in digital form.  Click on the eBooks tab to focus your search to that format, or limit your search results to location=internet.  

Happy searching!  Contact library staff anytime for assistance.

The White Countess

Ralph Fiennes in Hail, Caesar! (2016)

The English Patient — Almàsy + landscapes

Fabiola Gianotti (b. 1960) is the current Director-General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. She is the first woman to hold this position.

She is a particle physicist, with a PhD from the University of Milan. She has received prestigious awards such as the Enrico Fermi Prize or the Fundamental Physics Prize: Special Breakthrough for her efforts in discovering a new Higgs-like particle.

Ralph Fiennes interview: 'Cinema reduces love to cliché' - Telegraph

Ralph Fiennes, the director and star of The Invisible Woman, on Hollywood, tabloid gossip, and Charles Dickens’s complicated romantic life

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.”

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Two UC San Diego Scientists Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Left: JoAnn Trejo, PhD, is professor in the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and assistant vice chancellor for UC San Diego Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Right: Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, is professor in the Division of Host Microbe Systems and Therapeutics in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and adjunct professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego.

Leaders in cell biology and anti-malarial drug development respectively, JoAnn Trejo and Elizabeth Winzeler were recognized by their peers with one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

Trejo is known for discovering how cellular responses are regulated by molecules known as G protein-coupled receptors, particularly in the context of vascular inflammation and cancer. Her findings have advanced the fundamental knowledge of cell biology and helped identify new targets for drug development. Trejo’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including a recent NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award.

Winzeler is known for her early contribution to the field of functional genomics, where she worked primarily in the model yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Concerned about global health disparities and the alarming rise in the number of worldwide malaria cases in the early 2000s, she shifted her research focus to malaria, beginning with functional genomics and then moving to drug discovery.

“Two UC San Diego Scientists Elected to National Academy of Medicine”

Here's a really beautiful publisher's binding on a 1902 edition of Fairyland of Science. The end paper with a Pegasus and the title page were definitely worth sharing too. This book was written by Arabella Buckley for a young audience to learn about science through imagination and story telling.

The fairyland of science, 1902. by Arabella B. Buckley.