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March 8th, 2016
Purdue University Libraries Resource Spotlight: AccessUN
Title: AccessUN
PURL: http://purl.lib.purdue.edu/db/accessun
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Access UN benefits researchers concerned with international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian issues.
The Readex United Nations Index provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Peace and security, world hunger, human rights, economic development, the environment and atomic energy are among the many topics addressed in depth by the United Nations.
March 4th, 2016
One of the research teams for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant and the 21st Century Grand Challenges project has just released their initial findings that coincides with the 4-year anniversary of the Southern Indiana tornadoes (March 2-3). Their ongoing research focuses on these communities and how they handled the after-effects of the tornado devastation.
The title of the research project is “Resilient Communities: Strengthening Post-Disaster Recovery by Understanding Interdependent Social and Physical Networks.”
The team conducted its study as part of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant and the 21st Century Grand Challenges project, an initiative created by President Barack Obama in 2013 to harness science, technology and innovation to solve important national or global problems. The $538,000 grant was issued to Purdue University in March 2014 for a project titled “Catalyzing the Involvement of Humanists and Social Scientists in Grand Challenge Initiatives,” led by Principal Investigator Jim Mullins, dean of libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor.
Megan Sapp Nelson, associate professor, Purdue University Libraries is quoted in the article as part of this research team. A link to the article can be found here: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q1/purdue-research-team-investigates-disaster-recovery.html.
For more about the Mellon Grand Challenge Exploratory Initiative led by Principal Investigator Jim Mullins, dean of libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor, go to: https://www.purdue.edu/research/ppri/research/grants.html.
Filed under: general, press_release, RSRCHMarch 2nd, 2016
Purdue University Libraries is conducting user tests of new designs of the library website and search interface. In the test participants will be asked to complete a set of tasks on the library website and provide feedback. Participation of this user test is voluntary. The user test is expected to take up to 1 hour of time. Participants will receive $10 if they complete the test.
Participant requirements:
If you are interested, please first complete the participant screening survey and we will notify you the test schedule.
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