Women’s Archives featured on ABC News
Visit http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7265716 to watch a feature story profiling the Women’s Archives housed in the Special Collections department of the M.D. Anderson Library.
Student Art Exhibit opening February 11th
The University of Houston Libraries is pleased to host its third annual Student Art Exhibit in the M.D. Anderson Library. The exhibit opening will take place at 5:30 on the third floor of the M.D. Anderson Library’s red wing. It will be on display from February 11-April 15, 2010.
The twenty artists whose work was selected by the jury, represent a broad cross-section of University of Houston students. All classifications, from freshman to Master’s candidates, are represented. While most of the students are majoring in Studio Arts, several artists were selected from other disciplines, including English, pharmacy, and biomedical engineering. The artwork on display includes paintings, sculpture, photography, and graphic art.
The competitive art exhibit was juried by representatives from local museums, arts organizations, and the UH School of Art faculty. The exhibit jury selected thirty-three works from nearly one hundred submissions. Katherine Veneman, the Curator of Education at the Blaffer Gallery, served on the jury and curated the exhibit.
Student Art Exhibit jury announced
The third annual Student Art Exhibit, sponsored by the University of Houston Libraries, will be on display February 11-April 15, 2010. The deadline for submissions has been extended to February 2nd. Students enrolled in the spring semester may submit their work at the William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library or in room 220 at the M.D. Anderson Library. The jury that will select work for the exhibit are:
Jillian Conrad, School of Art, University of Houston
Clare Elliott, Menil Collection
Vanessa Perez McCalla, Art League of Houston
Katherine Veneman, Blaffer Gallery
Christine Jelson West, Lawndale Art Center
Dena Woodall, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Call for Artists
The UH Libraries is now accepting artwork for its Third Annual Student Art Exhibit. Artwork may be submitted at both the M.D. Anderson Library (room 220) and the Architecture and Art Library. This is a competitive exhibit, juried by representatives from local museums, art galleries, and the UH School of Art faculty. Work will be accepted through February 2, 2010.
Submission requirements:
2D in any medium: Ready to hang with wires and brackets or on foam core, not to exceed 5’x5′, 5 pounds, or extend more than 4 inches from the wall.
Sculpture: Pedestal required, no more than 20 pounds for work and pedestal combined. Must fit in library elevator.
Contact Catherine Essinger at cwessinger@uh.edu for more information.
Assistant Professors Speaker Series
The University Community and Public are invited to bring their brown bag lunch and meet two of the University’s rising stars at noon on July 9, 2009 in the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion:
Jason Porter, College of Optometry,
“Adaptive Optics”
Clinicians and vision scientists have known for centuries that human vision is degraded by the eye’s poor optical quality. Even when wearing conventional glasses or contact lenses, our eyes still suffer from subtle optical imperfections that not only limit our ability to see fine detail in the outside world, but also limit the ability of clinicians and vision scientists to look inside normal and diseased eyes with fine detail. We use adaptive optics, the same technology used by ground-based telescopes to take clear images of outer space through Earth’s turbulent atmosphere, to correct for the eye’s optical imperfections and acquire images with unprecedented resolution. Adaptive optics imaging now allows for the routine examination of single cells in living eyes, providing a non-invasive, microscopic view of the living retina that could previously only be obtained in excised tissue. The ability to see cellular structures in the living eye provides the opportunity to better understand normal retinal structure and function while potentially enhancing our ability to earlier detect and diagnose retinal diseases and track the progression and efficiency of disease treatments. We will highlight some of the scientific discoveries that adaptive optics has made possible, and will also discuss the development of an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope in our lab at the College of Optometry.
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Kirill Larin, Cullen College of Engineering
“Noninvasive Optical Imaging and Diagnostics of Tissues and Cells”
Development of novel methods for functional imaging, monitoring and quantification of different biological processes in tissues, small organs, and cells has gained tremendous interest in view of the varied applications of Biomedical Optics. This talk will overview recent developments in functional imaging of different tissues and cells with several low-coherence interferometry (LCI) methods developed at the University of Houston, including noninvasive monitoring of drug diffusion and optical clearing, detection and assessment of microbubbles in tissues and blood, early diagnostics of arteriosclerosis, imaging of early embryonic cardiovascular system development, and depth-resolved fingerprint recognition. Additionally, recent progress in development of minimally-invasive glucose biosensor, based on unique micro-retroreflector technology, will be discussed.
Cookies and beverages compliments of the University Libraries. This free event is co-sponsored by the Faculty Senate. For more details, please review the attached sheet or call the Faculty Senate Office at 713-743-9181.