DIY Makers' Day

Inspire users to actively engage with reducing, reusing, and recycling by hosting a DIY Makers’ Day. Chapter describes how to create this hands-on event that is jam-packed with DIY projects featuring creative reuse and sustainable ingredients. Participants leave with goodies they’ve made and recipes and instructions so they can continue creating at home. This is a great event for showcasing your library’s and community’s green resources

See How Our Garden Grows: Cultivating Community through a Fruit and Veggie Exchange

Celebrate local food, community, and thebounty of harvest as library folks gather toshare fruits, vegetables, seeds, preserves, gardening and food publications, and their own knowledge. Promote sustainability and nurture a robust community by bringing coworkers together to share produce from their own gardens

It Takes a Village Sustainability Starter

We all believe in sustainability and work to be green as individuals, but there’s power insharing our knowledge and values and working together. Grow your sustainability efforts beyond single events by creating an advisory, education, and outreach group

Non-extremal instantons and wormholes in string theory

We construct the most general non-extremal spherically symmetric instanton solution of a gravity-dilaton-axion system with $SL(2,R)$ symmetry, for arbitrary euclidean spacetime dimension $D\geq 3$. A subclass of these solutions describe completely regular wormhole geometries, whose size is determined by an invariant combination of the $SL(2,R)$ charges. Our results can be applied to four-dimensional effective actions of type II strings compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold, and in particular to the universal hypermultiplet coupled to gravity. We show that these models contain regular wormhole solutions, supported by regular dilaton and RR scalar fields of the universal hypermultiplet.Comment: 10 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the RTN2004 workshop, Kolymbari, Crete, 5-10 September, Greec

The effect of wavy leading edges on aerofoil-gust interaction noise

High-order accurate numerical simulations are performed to investigate the effects of wavy leading edges (WLEs) on aerofoil–gust interaction (AGI) noise. The present study is based on periodic velocity disturbances predominantly in streamwise and vertical directions that are mainly responsible for the surface pressure fluctuation of an aerofoil. In general, the present results show that WLEs lead to reduced AGI noise. It is found that the ratio of the wavy leading-edge peak-to-peak amplitude (LEA) to the longitudinal wavelength of the incident gust (?g) is the most important factor for the reduction of AGI noise. It is observed that there exists a tendency that the reduction of AGI noise increases with LEA/?g and the noise reduction is significant for LEA/?g?0.3. The present results also suggest that any two different cases with the same LEA/?g lead to a strong similarity in their profiles of noise reduction relative to the straight leading-edge case. The wavelength of wavy leading edges (LEW), however, shows minor influence on the reduction of AGI noise under the present gust profiles used. Nevertheless, the present results show that a meaningful improvement in noise reduction may be achieved when 1.0?LEW/?g?1.5. In addition, it is found that the beneficial effects of WLEs are maintained for various flow incidence angles and aerofoil thicknesses. Also, the WLEs remain effective for gust profiles containing multiple frequency components. It is discovered in this paper that WLEs result in incoherent response time to the incident gust across the span, which results in a decreased level of surface pressure fluctuations, hence a reduced level of AGI noise

Open Educational Resources: CELT Presentation

Presentation given at CELT to introduce faculty to the SUNY OER initiative, with details on what OER is, and how the incentive might work at Brockport

Getting Started in Library Publishing

Lightning round presentation given at the 2016 NYLA Scholarly Communication Unconference at Saratoga Springs, NY on November 2, 2016

Faculty/Staff Technology Support Initiative: Next Engine 3D Scanner

The Next Engine 3D Scanner would enhance and promote the use of the Makerbot Replicator 3D Printer that has recently been purchased for use by students and faculty who wish to explore this innovative technology and incorporate it into the curriculum. The scanner increases the 3D printer’s usefulness by allowing existing objects to be scanned and printed, rather than just designed from scratch. The MultiDrive Scanning Platform further automates and increases ease of use of the process. The upgraded software increases the speed and ease of the scanning process. With creator’s consent, object plans can then be added to the institutional repository, Digital Commons@Brockport

The Library as YOUR Research Partner

Presented at the 2016 Grant Writing Workshop, with the goal of helping attendees realize that the library is their research partner. From finding and obtaining resources, and individual research consultations, to getting an ORCiD and setting up a research profile, Drake Library staff stand ready to help