Silent Film Screenings Include Eastman Student Scores

Looking for something to take your mind off science? Here's something:

(Remember to bring your UofR ID with you--most of them are free, some requires ID)
Silent Film Screenings Include Eastman Student Scores

All of the following will take place in Rochester NY.

Thursday, March 18
The Living Nickelodeon
7 p.m.
Room 120, Eastman School of Music
26 Gibbs St.
Admission: Free

Friday, March 19
The History of Film Accompaniment
4 p.m.
Ciminelli Lounge, Eastman Commons
100 Gibbs St.
Admission: Free

Friday, March 19
Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
8 p.m.
Dryden Theater, George Eastman House
900 East Ave.
Admission for the general public: $15, $10 members and students. No Take-10 tickets or passes. UR students and faculty: tickets at the door with I.D.

Saturday, March 20
Magic Lantern Slide Show. “Around the World in 90 Minutes; Being a Tour of Diverse Parts of the Globe, conducted by ‘Professor’ Marsh (M.A. Oxon), with Mr. Francis (late Royal Polytechnic) at the Magnificent Tri-Unnial Lantern”
4 p.m.
Hubbell Auditorium, University of Rochester River Campus
Admission: Free

Sunday, March 21
George Eastman House Panel Discussion on Nitrate Films
1 p.m.
Curtis Theater, George Eastman House
900 East Ave.

Sunday, March 21
The Vitaphone Program #3 -- feature and short film screening.
3 p.m.
Dryden Theater, George Eastman House
900 East Ave.
Admission for the general public: $7/$5 members and students. Free to UR students and faculty with I.D.

Are you a US citizen? Fancy doing science in France? Voila.

This obviously does not apply to me. But to all you Americans out there, watch out for this grant! Sounds pretty sweet to me. Whether you are an undergrad, a pre-doc or a post-doc, it seems that there's a piece of something for everybody. But seriously, the post-doc fellowship looks so-deliciously good. So if you hold the passport of United States, please scroll down and pay attention.

Two grant opportunities for young, U.S. citizens from the Pasteur Foundation

The Pasteur Foundation is seeking applicants for two grant opportunities for U.S. citizens.

• Travel Grants for June 2010 Meeting on the Viruses of Microbes in Paris. If you are a young doctoral or postdoctoral researcher interested in attending this First International Congress on Viruses of Microbes from June 21-25, 2010, in Paris, please consult our website for details about these travel grants. U.S. citizenship and affiliation with a U.S. institution are required.


• Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants to work at the Institut Pasteur Fellowship package is $70,000 per year for three years for a grand total of $210,000. Candidates may apply to any laboratory within the Institut Pasteur's ten departments. Please see website for details: www.pasteurfoundation.org and while you are there, check out our summer internship program for undergraduates! Information for Summer 2011 will be posted shortly.

Evolutionary Theory Evolves

Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve?

Some biologists are calling for a rethink of the rules of evolution.

“We’re not talking a revolution,” Massimo Pigliucci, the City University of New York evolutionary biologist and philosopher, says. “Nobody’s going to deny Darwin and all that stuff. But it has been several decades since the last time evolutionary biologists actually sat around the table, so to speak, and came up with the basic principles of their field.”

By Bob Grant
The Scientist Vol.24 Issue 1 p24

This is interesting, as I was wondering whether the theory still holds true or there is a need for an "update". And voila. Very intriguing indeed.

Fuel for your research

A usual side track from my research project landed me on a website that provides some useful articles on research and writing. I find reading articles like that is simply a good distraction from working on the bench or scratching my head staring at my not-so-coherent drafts. This usually is a good trick for me to get motivated and go back to polishing them.

If you'd like to take a break too, go to:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/how-to.html

and here is another good one whether you're a first year or a fourth year:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html

The King of Pop--of the world!!!

No other musician has had a bigger impact. Nobody has ever come close. As I was making a chart of the working model of RNAi pathway and heterochromatin, a new email came in from LA Times.

Michael, I love you, your music and your dance moves. And I'm sure the whole world is with me on this.

Great help, guy from "HELP" desk!

From: Sent: Thu 6/25/2009 1:58 PM To: Lim, Su Jun Cc: Subject: RE: Unable to connect via VPN Attachments: View As Web Page

Try again. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Lim, Su Jun Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 2:13 AM To: Subject: Unable to connect via VPN Hi. I'm trying to connect to the URMC vpn using Cisco VPN client 4.9.01 (0080) on a mac 10.5.7. I'm able to import the VPN from the URMC website but unable to log on with my username and password, which i used for my email account. How can I fix it? Thanks. -SuJun Lim

Qualifying to be in the fraternity of SCIENCE

At the end of the day, the scientific community can be comparable to a bigger, wealthier fraternity. First, you need to get yourself behind the door. Then, you get to choose your "Big". To qualify as one of "them", you'd better start speaking the language and learning the code. After all, SCIENCE feeds on the communication of the findings among scientists (a.k.a. the fraternity members). Without communication, science is dead.

Good luck.