What’s new in Academic Works? We have new climate-related articles co-authored by Satya Prakash and Hamidreza Norouzi (Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology) and Reginald Blake (Physics). Hamid is our new director of Undergraduate Research!
Satya Prakash, Hamidreza Norouzi, M. Azarderakhsh, Reggie Blake, and K. Tesfagiorgis: “Global Land Surface Emissivity Estimation From AMSR2 Observations”
Satya Prakash, Imaranali M. Momin, Ashis K. Mitra, Partha S. Bhattacharjee, Fanglin Yang, and Vijay Tallapragada, “An Early Assessment of Medium Range Monsoon Precipitation Forecasts from the Latest High-Resolution NCEP-GFS (T1534) Model over South Asia”
Satya Prakash, Ashis K. Mitra, Amir AghaKouchak, Zhong Liu, Hamidreza Norouzi, and D. S. Pai, “A preliminary assessment of GPM-based multi-satellite precipitation estimates over a monsoon dominated region”
Boost Your Scholarly Profile! Task 6: Catch Up and Clean Up
This week, take some time to catch up on all of our tasks thus far. This is also a good time to update any other professional accounts you might have (some options are listed at the bottom of this page) double-check your privacy settings on Facebook and other social media and more.
http://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/c.php?g=464871&p=3178097
About this series:
In partnership with the Faculty Commons and Associate Provost Brown, City Tech Library will provide a series of seven do-it-yourself, self-paced tasks for you to update, maintain or create your online scholarly presence. By the end of the summer, your scholarship will be easier to find online and you will be on the path to stardom!
We will release a new task every week. Tasks will include how to create your Google Scholar Profile, creating your scholarly ID, using social media, and how to increase the impact of your work by adding it to CUNY Academic Works http://academicworks.cuny.edu/.
Questions? Contact Prof. Monica Berger, Library and check this webpage http://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/c.php?g=464871 throughout the summer for new posts.
image source: https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2015/03/26/10/39/hiking-691739_960_720.jpg
New Kanopy Films for August
The Kanopy digital stream service has these handpicked films for the month of August. You can access Kanopy from home using your City Tech library barcode or on any computer on campus.
Holy Man
This is the story of Douglas White, an 89 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White’s “actual innocence” and brought the case back to federal court.
Offshore
While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bar, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands.
Of Dogs and Men
According to a U.S. Department of Justice estimate, police officers shoot and kill more than 10,000 pet dogs in the U.S. every year. This film takes audiences on a journey with pet owners through the tragedy of loss and pursuit of change in a legal system in which the very officers they challenge are an integral part.
The Last Battle of the Tehran Children
Avraham, Ziggy, Schreiber, and Robinson form the uncrowned governing council of the “Teheran Children”. The four represent 217 Holocaust orphans who are now bringing legal action against the State of Israel for monies received from Germany for their rehabilitation. In their old age they have set out to battle the state they dreamed of.
Bite Size
America’s battle against childhood obesity is an issue too big for many to fully comprehend. With one in three children overweight, the epidemic is sweeping our nation at an unforgiving rate. But in spite of these odds, Bite Size showcases the stories of four inspiring kids who are fighting for their health one day at a time.
Queens at Heart
The film offers an extremely rare and poignant glimpse into pre-Stonewall LGBT life as it takes us to a New York City drag ball and follows the women through their daily lives. They talk about their double-lives — going out as women at night but living as men during the day, and about how they take hormones and dream of “going for a change.”
The Academic Advantages of Twitter
Inside Higher Education has a nice article today about why academics should use Twitter.
We’ll conclude our Boost Your Scholarly Profile series in a few weeks with a guide to getting started with Twitter for academics but why not learn more about the benefits of Twitter?
Dive into a Good Book this Summer
Whether this summer finds you at the beach, laying by the pool, or just on a long commute to school or work, there’s no better way to escape summer in the city than by diving into a good book. The City Tech library has a large selection of novels, biographies, and graphic novels. You don’t have to leave New York to find yourself On the Road with Sal Paradise or in California at the end of the psychedelic sixties. Find these books and more recommended beach reads on the display near the entrance of the library.
We also have some great streaming films that you can watch from home.
Surfs up!
Boost Your Scholarly Profile! Task 5: Update your CV and Post it Online
You already have a curriculum vitae, but can it be accessed online? Posting your CV to the Internet is an excellent way to raise your visibility and scholarly profile. You can post it via one of two simple methods: as a PDF document or as a webpage. City Tech faculty will want to consider using the OpenLab for sharing their CV.
http://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/c.php?g=464871&p=3178096
About this series:
In partnership with the Faculty Commons and Associate Provost Brown, City Tech Library will provide a series of seven do-it-yourself, self-paced tasks for you to update, maintain or create your online scholarly presence. By the end of the summer, your scholarship will be easier to find online and you will be on the path to stardom!
We will release a new task every week. Tasks will include how to create your Google Scholar Profile, creating your scholarly ID, using social media, and how to increase the impact of your work by adding it to CUNY Academic Works http://academicworks.cuny.edu/.
Questions? Contact Prof. Monica Berger, Library and check this webpage http://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/c.php?g=464871 throughout the summer for new posts.
image source: https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2015/03/26/10/39/hiking-691739_960_720.jpg
