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Under Nadler's leadership, the University of Chicago Library flourished as a prized and effective research tool for students and faculty. With its 11.9 million volumes, noted collections in fields ranging from sociology to the history of science, rich selection of non-English holdings and commitment to keeping its collection on campus, the Library has become a destination for scholars and a model for other institutions worldwide.
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A frequently consulted expert on library science, Nadler is known for her broad expertise, unlimited energy, conceptual acuity and deep devotion to both the Library and the University of Chicago.
"Judi has tirelessly pursued new opportunities, enhanced every aspect of the Library and demonstrated continuously expert and nimble leadership," Provost Thomas F. Rosenbaum wrote in a message to faculty on March 17. "We are indebted to Judi for her keen judgment and generosity of spirit while she served as the Library's guide, administrator and strategic planner."
"I feel deeply privileged to have served the University and the Library for almost five decades and grateful for the opportunities given to me to serve it well. I cannot think of an environment that is more inspirational and more conducive to enabling success," Nadler said.
"Among the achievements I am most proud of are the lasting impact of the Mansueto Library, the sustained confidence and support of the faculty, and the evidenced quality and achievements of the library staff. More than what we have done in the past, it's about what we have built for the future, and that is what I would like to be remembered for," she added.
The Mansueto Library, one of the crowning achievements of Nadler's two terms as director, houses cutting-edge facilities for book preservation and digitization, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equivalents. The library was designed to fulfill scholars' needs for easy access to print resources at a time when many other research universities are moving their collections to off-site storage.
The library is named in honor of Joe Mansueto, AB'78, and MBA'80, and Rika Yoshida, AB'91, who gave a $25 million gift to the University in 2008. Architect Helmut Jahn designed the facility's iconic glass dome, which encloses a light-filled reading room and an underground storage system that descends 50 feet below ground.
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Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology, worked closely with Nadler during the planning process for Mansueto. He described working with Nadler as "one of the greatest pleasures of my career. Her breadth of expertise, her commitment to the life of the mind, her ability to innovate boldly while maintaining traditional library values and practices: These unique qualities have led to the creation of a research library unmatched in the world. It has been an honor to work with her as a colleague and a friend."
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Diane Lauderdale, professor of Health Studies and chair of the Library's faculty board, praised Nadler's leadership and vision for the Library.
"Judi's retirement is an occasion to celebrate her achievements and the health of the University's library," Lauderdale said. "Her wise leadership and understanding of research libraries are nationally recognized and locally treasured. Judi has expertly navigated the Library through changes that ensure its continued centrality to the intellectual life of the University by strengthening its staff, collections and physical environment."
Nadler joined UChicago in 1966 as a cataloger in the Foreign Language Section of the Library's Cataloging Department. She was successively promoted to head of the Social Sciences Section, head of the Cataloging Department, assistant director for Technical Services and then associate director of the Library.
In addition to her duties as director, Nadler currently serves as chief selector for the Library's Judaica Collection, having raised much of the funding to build this collection.
Nadler studied history and comparative linguistics at the University of Cluj in Romania, earned an undergraduate degree in English and Romance Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a master's degree in library science from the Israel Graduate School and pursued graduate studies in comparative literature at Hebrew University.
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Isabel Gauthier, David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology and professor of radiology and radiological sciences at Vanderbilt, has been selected as the 2015 Professor of the Year by the Southeastern Conference.
Her work at Vanderbilt has been exemplary, and she has distinguished herself as one of the most sought-after professors for Vanderbilt students of all levels."Dr. Isabel Gauthier is a teacher, researcher and mentor who embodies the most desirable qualities we seek in the professoriate," said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. "She has engaged in high-quality, high-impact research and attained an international reputation for her expertise in object recognition. Her work at Vanderbilt has been exemplary, and she has distinguished herself as one of the most sought-after professors for Vanderbilt students of all levels. I am thrilled she has been named the 2015 SEC Professor of the Year."
Zeppos is the current chair of the SEC's presidents and chancellors.
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"The SEC is pleased to bestow the 2015 SEC Professor of the Year award on Dr. Isabel Gauthier," said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. "Her commitment to her students, to her research and to her field are virtually unmatched, and I congratulate Dr. Gauthier on this tremendous honor."
The SEC Professor of the Year is selected from SEC Faculty Achievement Award winners, receives an additional $15,000 honorarium and is recognized at the SEC Awards Dinner in May and the SEC Symposium in September.
Gauthier's research interests include the behavioral and neural study of visual object recognition, especially in domains of perceptual expertise such as faces, letters, musical notation, with implications for disorders likes autism and congenital face blindness. Her dissertation research demonstrated for the first time that the behavioral and neural underpinnings of perceptual expertise could be studied in the laboratory using short-term training protocols. Her work has demonstrated that the brain area which many experts thought specialized in face recognition also responds to other object categories, such as birds, planes or cars, in people who have expertise with these categories.
In 2000, Gauthier founded the Perceptual Expertise Network (PEN), which comprises more than 10 laboratories across North America and is now part of the National Science Foundation-funded Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center. With 30 workshops held in 15 years and hundreds of collaborative projects, PEN offers a new model of interdisciplinary collaboration centered on graduate student and post-doctoral fellow participation.
Gauthier has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific articles, with 50 of these cited at least 50 times. Overall, her publications in many of the more prestigious journals in psychology and neuroscience have been cited more than 12,300 times.
She received the Young Investigator Award of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in 2002, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Behavioral/Cognitive Neuroscience in 2003 and the Troland research award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 "for seminal experiments on the role of visual expertise in the recognition of complex objects including faces and for exploration of brain areas activated by this recognition." She was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2010 and Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2012. In 2014, she received a Chancellor Award for Research from Vanderbilt University.
Gauthier teaches undergraduate Introductory Psychology and Brain Damage and Cognition and has taught Research Methods in Psychology. She has mentored several students in honors projects in her laboratory and has also received an award for the excellence of her graduate mentoring.
The SEC provosts select the SEC Faculty Achievement Award winners and the SEC Professor of the Year, and the program is administered by SECU, the academic initiative of the Southeastern Conference. SECU serves as the primary mechanism through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of SEC students and faculty are promoted and advanced.
New faculty: Anita Disney explores role of neurotransmitters in attention
When Anita Disney was growing up in Adelaide, Australia, friends and family assumed she would become a scientist. After all, her father was a biologist and one of the founding faculty members of Flinders University.
But in what she admits may have been a bit of youthful rebellion, Disney gained admission to a performing arts magnet high school and threw herself into music, Shakespearean drama and dance classes. In college she pursued a bachelor of arts, majoring in drama. Then she encountered psychology.
"I got really stuck on this biological psychology course I took," Disney said. She soon transferred to Australian National University, where she studied under the noted neuroscientist Michael B. Calford. He introduced her to neurosteroids, a special class of steroids made in the brain that modulate the activity of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry information throughout the brain.
During graduate studies at New York University, Disney worked with researchers studying the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. She came across what she thought was an extraordinary claim made by a British neuroscientist: Acetylcholine can sharpen cats' vision. "I woke up one morning with the realization that I wanted to understand the role of acetylcholine in vision," Disney said.
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The probe allows Disney to explore the role that acetylcholine plays in attention and arousal. Rodent studies have shown that acetylcholine release into the cortex promotes attentive states, but the situation appears to be more complex in primates.
When human or nonhuman primates pay close attention to something, they generally concentrate on details in a relatively small area, causing elevated activity in the corresponding region of the visual cortex. "Critics object that the anatomy of release for acetylcholine is too widely spread in the cortex to produce such a focused effect," Disney said. "Actually, we still know very little about the anatomy of this system, especially in primates."
Disney theorizes that acetylcholine plays a general role in triggering attention, and another mechanism acts at a smaller scale to cause the local increase in sensitivity to a particular visual stimulus. "Think of the spectrum of capacities from 'awake but not alert' to 'alert and highly attentive.' I am certain that acetylcholine plays a role some place along this spectrum," she said. "The question is, where?"
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Congratulations to Alex Maier!
Assistant Professor of Psychology Alexander Maier has been selected to receive the Society for Neuroscience's Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award for 2014.
The purpose of the award, which is given to only two individuals each year, is "to recognize individuals who have demonstrated originality and creativity in research and to promote success during academic transitions prior to tenure."
Maier was recognized for his efforts to understand the basic mystery of how perception arises from neural activities. A prime focus of his research program is to differentiate between the neural circuitry that is involved in visual perception and sensory activity that does not attain the level of conscious awareness. His work has important implications for treating patients with visual disorders characterized by an inability to perceive or recognize certain types of visual images. He is also one of a handful of scientists studying the relationship between the electrical activity in the brain and the variations in blood flow that are measured by the brain mapping technique fMRI, the most commonly used and most reliable method for measuring neural responses in the human brain.
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Congratulations to Isabel Gauthier!
Isabel Gauthier was a recipient of the 2014 Chancellor's Research Award in recognition of her excellence in research as exemplified by her recent PNAS paper on expertise and object selectivity in the fusiform face area.
Congratulations to Kevin L. Schey!
Kevin Schey received the 2014 Cataract Research Award from the National Foundation for Eye Research. This international award recognizes promising lens researchers who have conducted significant scientific work. This award is presented annually at the Lens Business Meeting at ARVO.
Eyes that see in the dark: Randolph Blake's blindfold test
Randolph Blake's findings on how some people can see in pitch dark intrigues Scientific American, Slate, NPR and more.
Congratulations to Jon Kaas!
Jon Kaas is the winner of the 2014 George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience awarded by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. The prize is awarded annually to a neuroscientist who has conducted cutting-edge research that has revolutionized the field.
2013 Fine Science Tool Travel Award
Congratulations to Brandon Moore, Keji Li, and Pooja Balaram for being selected to receive the 2013 Fine Science Tool Travel Award. This award provides funds towards the cost of attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA.
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Congratulations to John Penn!
John S. Penn, PhD, FARVO (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) and David R. Williams, PhD, FARVO (University of Rochester School of Medicine) are the new ARVO vice presidents.
ARVO is the largest and most respected eye and vision research organization in the world.
Full Story: http://www.arvo.org/About_ARVO/Press_Room/Smith_begins_term_as_ARVO_president/
May 20, 2013
Congratulations to Alexander Maier!
Alexander Maier, an assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, has won a two-year, $50,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars.
Full Story: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/02/alexander-maier-sloan-fellowship/
February 14, 2013
Congratulations to Tonia Rex!
Tonia Rex, Ph.D., assistant professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, was recently named one of 10 winners of the National Institutes of Health competition for ideas on the future of vision research. Congratulations Tonia!!
Full Story http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/02/nih-lauds-rexs-ideas-for-future-of-vision-research/
February 14, 2013
Congratulations to David Calkins!
On December 19th, 2012 David Calkins received the Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Scientific Investigator Award. Many congratulations to David!
December 20, 2012
Congratulations to Isabel Gauthier!
Isabel Gauthier has been elected as a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Psychologists. This is the oldest and most prestigious honorary society in Psychology, with only a handful of Fellows elected every year. This is a richly deserved honor for Isabel. Along with Randolph Blake, Jon Kaas, and Gordon Logan, our department now has 4 members in this Society.
Congrats to Isabel!
December 10, 2012
Congratulations to Daryl Fougnie and René Marois!
Division 3 of APA recently announced young investigator awards given for outstanding articles by young investigators in the Journal of Experimental Psychology (JEP) journals. Daryl Fougnie, former graduate student in René Marois's lab, was one of the two winners of the award for JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition for an article he published with Rene.
Fougnie, D., & Marois, R. (2011). What limits working memory capacity? Evidence for modality-specific sources to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1329-1341.
Congratulations to both Daryl and Rene!
December 6, 2012
Congratulations to Isabel Gauthier and Steven Hollon!
They won significant awards at the December College Faculty Meeting on December 4, 2012. Isabel Gauthier won the Graduate Mentoring Award and Steve Hollon won the Graduate Teaching Award. Congratulations to Isabel and Steve on these well deserved honors!
December 5, 2012
Brain study provides new insight into why haste makes waste
Why do our brains make more mistakes when we act quickly?
A new study demonstrates how the brain follows Ben Franklin's famous dictum, "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
The research – conducted by Research Assistant Professor Richard Heitz and Jeffrey Schall, Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, at Vanderbilt University – has found that the brain actually switches into a special mode when pushed to make rapid decisions.
The study was published Nov. 7 in the journal Neuron.
"This is a question that is very basic to our experience as human beings, and something that we encounter on a daily basis," Heitz, who designed and carried out the study, said. "If we can understand how our brain changes when we are pushed to respond faster, we have gone a long way toward understanding the decision-making process in general."
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Slideshow: Snapshots from the Food & Wine Chef Showcase in Chicago
Welcome to the Food & Wine Chef Showcase
Food & Wine greeted us at the door with the cover of its latest magazine.
Trenchermen represented with a little fried ball of chopped liver, accompanied with tart yuzu apples and egg yolk jam.
Cafe Spiaggia
Tony Mantuano and Sarah Grueneberg rocked a bite of bay scallop, purgatory beans (yes, that's really what they're called), black garlic, and Italian fish sauce.
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Liquid Nitrogen
What's a party without some liquid nitrogen?
The black truffles were shaved on top of a small bit of Scottish hare, roasted cauliflower, along with some carrot and a Burgundy reduction. Sorry, Bugs Bunny. You were just too delicious.
GT Fish & Oyster
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The Girl and the Goat
Stephanie Izard's infectious smile was behind the table as she doled out goat chili with "poofs." Perfect for a cold night.
Balena's little bite was a rich cured mackerel, chermoula, endive, and currants.
Table 52
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bellyQ served simple little cups of comforting smoked turkey broth with roast chicken, green lentils, and thin noodles. It was a turkey-chicken noodle soup that your grandma probably doesn't make, unless Bill Kim is your grandma.
Wolfgang Puck
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North Pond
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Accessibility and readability of university websites in Finland
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Date issued2012
PublisherCàtedra d'Accessibilitat (CATAC)
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This article describes a study conducted by the authors to evaluate the accessibility and readability of the contents of the Web sites of seven universities in Finland. The accessibility assessment has been carried out to check compliance with accessibility guidelines for Web content established by the World Wide Web Consortium recommendation in WCAG 2.0. The readability has been evaluated using the Flesch Reading Ease Level formula for English texts. We have tried to determine whether the universities have been concerned to provide accessible information about the university through its website so that it can be accessed by everyone (teachers, students), regardless of whether or not the user has a disability.
CitationKarhu, Markku [et al.]. Accessibility and readability of university websites in Finland. "Journal of accessibility and design for all", 2012, vol. 2, núm. 2, p. 178-190.
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Great location !!!
Nice hotel, with a nice bar.
Miniutes away from tube into London and also has a few nice bars locally within walking distance. Pay and display parking near square so not too far. If staying over weekend. Streets are free from 1330 on Saturday and all day Sunday which is a bonus... Tesco express round the corner and some nice sandwich shops.
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Superb hotel, great staff
Malmaison is one of those hotels that many people aspire to stay in.
It is a hotel that thinks ahead - for example, there are USB charging sockets at the side of the bed, for the phone ... genius yet simple. The beds are fantastic, the shower was great and the TV huge with a lot of choice. In summary, nothing to complain about and lots to praise. Well done Malmaison
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Excellent hotel
Excellent hotel with excellent service :)
Good hotel rooms. Good location for business rather than leisure though
Bit of faffing on check in as I registered but the room was not ready.
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Lovely london hotel
Stayed here as a base for a trip to wembley, really nice club room.
Friendly staff and food was delicious. Recommended.
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Fantastic room, with no extras
Great hotel in convenient location, close to Smithfield Market.
The rooms are comfortable with good quality bed, lots of cushions and pillows. The bathroom feels modern and luxury, with a walk-in shower; although the mirror was in a recessed wall and so far back from the sink that it's difficult to see to shave. For a hotel in this price bracket, there's little in the way of extras. The complementary bathroom toiletries are basic. Many hotels at this price provide a complementary bottle of water but Malmaison doesn't. And you're forced to give your email address to log into wifi. Nice hotel, though. I'd stay again.
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The Malmaison hotel was very modern and stylish.
Perfect for a couples night in a London or a night out with friends. The room exceeded our expectations. It was very clean and had everything you would need. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The food was delicious and the standard of service was extremely high. I would definitely stay in this hotel again and recommend it to a friend.
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At least 25 people were killed and dozens of buildings destroyed after a strong earthquake struck Burma near the Thai border on Thursday, officials said.
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Mark Hallinger, editor of TV Technology
Europe and Asia/Pacific editions, was in
Sochi covering NBC for two weeks. He sat
down with David Mazza, senior vice president
and chief technology officer for NBC Sports Group and NBC
Olympics just the before Closing Ceremonies
to find out how this latest stop in NBC's
long Olympics journey went.
TV TECHNOLOGY: In the past we've
talked about Olympics 1.0, 2.0 and so on…
what was Sochi?
MAZZA: I think I once told you we were
Olympics 2.0; we might have even said we
were 3.0. I would say we are more evolutionary
now, so we are probably on a 'point release.'
But the interesting thing is we come out
of every games with lessons learned. We
come out of every games with a few things
we say we're never going to do that again.
And then we adjust accordingly
But then you get to the next games, and
some of the conditions are so different, like
they were in Russia. A lot of your consistency
from one games to the next, when you were
perfecting something—it took a whole left
turn because you hit a totally new problem
that was standing in the way of success. It
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logistics or security. In some cases it is
as basic as drainage or snow removal in the
compounds. Many times the problems are
not what you think they are going to be.
It might have been the rodent eating
through the cables up at Alpine. The first
fibre we ran to the top of the hill, some sort
of rodent ate through it in three or four different
spots. We had to order new Kevlar-based
fiber, which apparently they can still
chew through, but they don't like the taste
of it, or the texture. We waited to put that in
at the last minute.
TVT: What was the hardest part about this
Olympics? Was it the delayed construction?
We knew we would run into some things,
so we did loosen the schedules up. But we
probably didn't loosen it up enough. Having
said that, when we finally did get into
the International Broadcast Centre, everybody
worked at warp speed. And by Christmas,
we really were caught up to where we
would have normally been. So that meant the
month of January went way better than we
had been anticipating.
Knowing it was going to be tough on the
ground [in Sochi], we did a lot more testing
and prefabbing before we left home. And
we shipped earlier so we were sure that we
could get through customs. The Sony integration
guys had been prefabbing a lot of the
equipment that we would typically do onsite,
and that saved us a tremendous amount
of time.
TVT: There were substantially more hours
of broadcast coverage this time versus Vancouver
(2010). Was staffing—including back
home—the same?
MAZZA: As far as cost is concerned, we
don't really count the guys at home the
same way, because a lot of them are staff
and they're sleeping at home—so the overall
expenses and T&E are lower. Certainly, they
are counted when we think about what I
call "people per produced hour." But where
the people versus hours equation looks very
favorable is with all the digital content; all
the new media. Because there's just far fewer
people working on all that, by design, than
there are on the big broadcast shows.
It's obviously consistent with the audience.
For Friday's Opening Ceremonies
coverage, 50 million people watched it on
TV or cable. But online, I don't know; I think
two million people were watching the hockey
game, [and that's] a really big live stream.
The audiences are just very different sizes,
and we have to keep the people working on
those somewhat consistent with that.
TVT: And the term "new media" you just used
has actually been put out to pasture?
MAZZA: Yes, we don't call it new media
now; we call it "digital." And it's such a misnomer;
everything we've done in broadcasting
has been digital since 1998. But it wasn't necessarily
digital files; it was digital video.
TVT: This is the first Olympics with the Stamford
facility fully operational.
MAZZA: Yes. The amazing thing about that
place is that the Stamford construction did
not start in earnest until February 2012, and
our first studio went on air Dec. 4, 2012. In
between those dates we were gone for four
months, doing the London Olympics.
TVT: And the Stamford NBC Sports Channel
facility is integral to the future?
MAZZA: Yes, it is. What's kind of cool about
this is we built the place to be able to have
big parts of it switched back and forth between
50 and 60 Hz reference. Three of the
control rooms [in Stamford] and two-thirds
of the EVS rooms and the edit system were
running 50 Hz. And that saved us a lot of standards
conversion until the very final product
was ready for transmission.
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