UST students, staff and faculty are invited to first lecture in the the 2008-2009 English Department Colloquium Series. Leslie Adrienne Miller will present “Science Into Art: A Poetry Reading and Talk.” Dr. Miller’s presentation will be held from 3:30 – 5:00 pm Friday, September 19, in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library’s O’Shaughnessy Room, Rm 108. Light refreshments will be served.
“The business of trafficking in corpses, the “resurrection trade,” is an old trade, one that makes possible the art of anatomy and, as Dr. Miller discovers, the art of her own book. She delves into the mysteries of early anatomical studies and medical illustrations and finds there stories of women’s lives – sometimes tragic, sometimes comic – as exposed as the drawings themselves.”
Read more in the September 18, 2008 Today’s Bulletin article . . .

Susan Price, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, is the author of Northern Treasure: The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Horticultural Research Center, her third book, published by the Afton Historical Society Press. The book is a lavishly illustrated centennial tribute to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and represents three years of research and writing. This new work, along with Susan’s first two books, Minnesota Gardens: An Illustrated History and Growing Home, Stories of Ethnic Gardening, are in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center collection. Northern Treasure also is available at local bookstores.

Do you have a question about your laptop? Need help with your UST password? IRT tech help is available in person at service desks in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, St. Paul campus (level one and lower level) ; and at Scholars on the skyway level near the Charles J. Keffer Library, Mpls campus.
Students, faculty and staff can use computer workstations with related technologies at all UST libraries. Research assistance is available in person and on-line.

The process of selecting information resources (electronic resources, books and journal subscriptions) for the scholarly needs of the UST community is based on collaboration between library staff, faculty and university administration. A number of factors are considered as we make decisions on purchases: available budget, costs of resources, economic trends in the publishing industry, the balance between print and electronic resources, use of materials and the allocation of resources to specific academic areas. Read more in the September 11 Bulletin Today.

The staff of the UST Libraries welcomes you to fall semester and invites you to discover all that we can offer you – as well as the variety of study and meeting spaces available in our libraries: O’Shaughnessy-Frey (north campus), Ireland Library (south campus), Keffer Library (Mpls campus). Find out how we can help improve your research methods! Read more.

I just happened to be reading the Oxford Companion of Military History online this morning and was saddened to see that this week marks the anniversary of the death of an infamous emperor. But then I was cheered to remember that a very famous but very unlikely star of a movie adaptation of this conqueror’s life won a Golden Turkey award for his portrayal of said emperor in what is said to be one of the worst movies of the 1950’s.
Can you name the ancient emperor and his bizarre Hollywood counterpart? If you can please let me know.
At the risk of sounding too morbid last week I wanted to know the names of two famous men who both died in auto accidents on August 11th in different years. The one who made a splash is ‘Jack the Dripper’ or as he was more often referred to – Jackson Pollack. The other famous person was none other than St. Paul native and coach of the triumphant Olympic gold medal winning 1980 ice hockey team – Herb Brooks.
Those on campus who knew at least one half of the answer are –
Jan Pinkerton
Peter Erickson
Matt Altman
Ann Kenne
Thanks to all who played!