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Bats: Virtually a model of flight

By Guest PostDecember 20, 2013Nature, Science3d glasses, 3d visualization, bat, bats in flight, body oriented navigation, cave, cave painting, connor gramazio, david laidlaw, design for science, Environment, kind of visualization, long nosed bats, mexican, motion tracking technology, risd, sharon swartz, timothy parsons, virtual reality, virtual reality environment

“Virtual Reality Design for Science” is a co-listed class at Brown and RISD that unites artists, designers, computer scientists, and experts in scientific visualization. The goal: to create tools for immersive interaction with scientific data. Test case for the course: the flight mechanics of bats.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — If you want to get a good look at a bat, a cave is a pretty good place to go. But on a Thursday in mid-December at Brown’s Granoff Center, there were virtual bats flapping about in a cave of a different sort. (more…)

150 Years of Mexican, Mexican American History Now Online

By Guest PostApril 3, 2013Culture, Media150 years, alberto elías, arturo arte moreno, bracero program, chicano, chris kollen, civil rights movement, de occidente, digital collection, el paso, el tucsonense, gadsden purchase, guadalupe castillo, la estrella, los angeles, los angeles angels, mary feeney, mexican, mexican american history, mexican american journalism, mexican american press, mexican cultural, mexican repatriation, old pueblo printers, online, red brown journalism, roberto cintli rodriguez, san francisco, sonora, spanish language, the great depression, the mexican revolution, tucson, ua librarian, united states, university of arizona, veronica reyes escudero, world war

The UA Libraries has just made 150 years of regionally published newspapers documenting the voice of Mexican and Mexican American communities digitally available for the first time.

A new digital collection at the University of Arizona Libraries makes accessible more than 150 years of news coverage documenting the voice of the Mexican and Mexican American community.

Curated, researched and digitized by librarians and archivists, in consultation with UA professors, the collection features 20 significant Mexican and Mexican American publications, many in Spanish. (more…)