Today in History - August 15, 1914 - First ship through the Panama Canal. Ever since Europeans discovered the new world, sailors dreamed of linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama, a narrow neck of land connecting North and South America in what is now the country of Panama. The [...]

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Engineers in Action Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.

Technology Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.
The Engineering Pathway has initiated a photo competition to highlight image thumbnails of its cataloged resources. The higher education Disciplinary Community pages will have two of these images at the top — one action image of people [...]

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Today in history - February 16, 2005 - the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change goes into effect.
In 1992 the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted in order to meet the looming concerns of global warming. As greenhouse gas levels rose around the world it became clear that [...]

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Today in History – November 28, 1964 – Mariner 4, was launched and became the first successful mission to Mars. Reaching Mars on a flyby on July 14 and 15, 1965, it was the first spacecraft to return close-up images of the surface (center image above) and lasted three years in solar orbit. [...]

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