Ralph Fiennes

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

Today, Ralph Fiennes is 52 years-old. For 23 years now, he has been entertaining us with some of the best movies that we know. Since its very beginning, his career has been a reflection of his exceptional talents and endless abilities, through characters that were complicated, touching, tormented, desperate, romantic, funny, brave or even mad. Today, Ralph still shows that he can take on any part, as long as he believes in it. For all those years he has remained true to himself, making movies not for the pleasure of fame but for the love of acting. Ralph is different from the other stars in the wide world of show business; different in the sense that he is a very special one who’s chosen his own path and who is, above anything, a wonderful human being. His professional choices, always atypical, have made him this incredible actor who eventually turned his movie career into a beautiful mix of shades and lights, of colors and nuances. And that is, after all, the reason why he is such a unique and truly gifted person.

How can you ever smile as if your life hadn’t capsized?

See Yourself in Me: A Spotlight on Women in STEM Film (Full Documentary)

Summer trip 2018: The Clay Castle, Transfagarasan Road, Sighisoara Medieval City and Turda Salt Mine / Romania.

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.

Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown

Hazen and Brown discovered nystatin, an early antifungal medication.

The discovery of nystatin by Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980) at the Division of Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health ("the Division") was inspired by the discovery and development of penicillin (see Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey and Ernst Chain) and by the success of biochemist and microbiologist Selman Waksman in screening soil samples for antibacterial agents. Nystatin, which is now known by a number of brand names, including Mycostatin, has been used for years as an effective treatment for fungal infections of the skin, mouth, vagina, and intestinal tract.

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Ralph Fiennes