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Translation in Folkloristics
(2016)
Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Drawing on his current research in the folktales of the islands of the Indian Ocean, he will propose that the study of ...
Genes, Culture, and Evolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2015)
Nineteenth Century Humorists in Australia and the US
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2012)
People in 19th century Australia and the United States often faced many of the same hardships, hazards and quirks of the environment. In both countries people often coped by laughing. This lecture will look at examples of ...
Cure you or cripple you?
(2009)
Visiting scholar Mark Daniels delivers a lecture on the human immune system and how it protects the body from disease and infection as well as immune system malfunctions.
How are drugs designed?
(2009)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Xiaoqin Zou, delivers a lecture on the history of medical drug production and uses.
Life in the treetops: Forest canopy research and outreach
(2010)
Visiting scholar Nalini Nadkarni delivers a fifty minute lecture highlighting her own forest canopy research with special attention paid to interdisciplinary perspectives.
Do we really need sleep?
(2010)
Mahesh Thakkar, Phd. in the Department of Neurology at the School of Medicine in the University of Missouri-Columbia, delivers a summary lecture on sleep and it's affects, informed by twenty years of research into sleep.
Darwin's germ: the life and times of E. Coli
(2009)
Chairman of the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia, George C. Stewart, delivers a summary lecture on the subject of the "most misunderstood" ...
Help! Where am I?
(2010)
Professor James M. Keller of the University of Missouri-Columbia department of Computer Sciences delivers a summary lecture on fuzzy logic and computer engineering.
Chief Research Officers Panel [videorecording]
(University of Missouri (System), 2010)
Video of Chief Research Officers Panel from Missouri Regional Life Sciences Summit 2010. Institutional strengths, successful collaborations, and future opportunities are discussed.
Select Scenes from Noah D. Manring's Industrial Seminar for Engineers
(2000)
This video presents clips from Noah Manring's industrial seminar for engineers on hydraulic control systems.
How does malaria jump from mosquitoes to humans?
(2009)
Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Brenda Beerntsen, delivers a lecture on malaria and it's method of transmission from mosquitoes to humans.
Charles M. Rick's hunt for the wild tomato
(2009)
Visiting scholar and director of the C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center at the University of California-Davis, Roger Chetelat, delivers a lecture on pioneering tomato geneticist Charles M. Rick and his study of ...
How Game Theory explains stupid behavior
(2010)
MU Department of Philosophy Associate Professor Zachary Ernst delivers a summary explanation of Game Theory and it's influence on human behavior.
The chemistry of NASCAR
(2009)
Associate professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Steven W. Keller, delivers a lecture on the chemistry of NASCAR, that is, the underlying chemical ...
Darwin's Mystery of Mysteries
(2009)
Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Andre Ariew, delivers a lecture on Charles Darwin's heroes and inspirations in the fields of ...
Personal congratulations to Deb Ward and Barb Jones of the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library
(2011)
Director of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah and of the Mid-Continental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Jean Shipman, offers congratulations to Deb Ward and ...
The research library today : three Jeremiads in search of a happy ending [videorecording]
(2011)
Keynote address of the Future of Archives in a Digital Age symposium delivered by Harvard University's Robert Darnton, introduced by Dean Mills, Brian Foster, and Ted Koditschek.
Digitization : successful projects and the challenge of born-digital newspaper archives [videorecording]
(2011)
This panel addressed several aspects of newspaper digitization projects. Jim Draper focused on a Gale/Cengage project to digitize 19th century newspapers in the British Library. Abbie Grotke explored the Library of Congress' ...
Ownership and copyright issues [videorecording]
(2011)
This panel discussed what copyright issues surround a project like the Dark Archives Project and how to deal with those issues.