McDermott Library
Lecture Series

"Briefcase Warriors:
New Battles in the Courtroom"

R. David Edmunds, Ph.D.

Free and open to the public
2:30-3:30 p.m. Oct., 2008
McDermott Library Auditorium (MC 2.410)

UTD American history Professor David Edmunds of the School of Arts and Humanities will discuss some of the consulting he has done in relation to court cases he has testified in support of Native American claims against the government. He holds the Anne and Chester Watson Chair in History. Dr. Edmunds won awards for his books The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire, The Shawnee Prophet, and The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France. He was honored last year in the McDermott Library co-sponsored Faculty Author Reception for his book The People: A History of Native America. In 2005 he became president of the prestigious Western History Association.

3rd Annual UTD
Faculty Author Reception

Presented by the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President, and the Dean of Libraries

UTD President David Daniel, at left, and UTD Provost Hobson Wildenthal
welcome faculty and library members to the 2007 reception.

For UTD Faculty and McDermott Library Members
4-6 p.m. Oct., 16, 2008
McDermott Suite (MC 4.4)

For the third consecutive year Dean of Libraries Larry D. Sall and McDermott Library staff along with the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President Hobson Wildenthal recognize distinguished faculty members who have produced a published work during the past year. Also honored are newly-tenured faculty who are asked to select a book for the library that will include a bookplate noting their achievement.

McDermott Library/UTD Mercury
Writers Series Lecture

"NASCAR: The Science of Speed"

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky , Ph.D.

Free and open to the public
2:30-3:30 p.m. Oct. 30, 2008
McDermott Library Auditorium (MC 2.410)

In July of 2007 Dr. Leslie-Pelecky visited UTD to present a lecture on the magnetic properties of nanomaterials as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. UTD decided she would be an excellent addition to its own physics department and lured her to Richardson. What UTD officials did not know is that she was about to publish The Physics of NASCAR, a book about the science behind stock car racing. She will lecture about NASCAR but the majority of her work centers on nanomedicine. She received a BA and a BS in Physics from the University of North Texas in 1986 and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1991.