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Encore! Hidden Figures Comes to PVCC

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In honor of the 2017 One Book program, Hidden Figures returns to the big screen at PVCC for an encore performance. If you've been waiting to see it or could watch it ten more times because it's just that good (and believe us, it is), then here is your chance to do just that. Mark your calendar for Friday, November 3 at 5:30 PM , where we will be showing Hidden Figures in Room M229 . Hope to see you there!

Stars, Superheroes, and Bite-Sized Astrophysics: New Books Are In

New month, new books: October is here, and here at Jessup Library there are 250+ new books gracing our shelves. The weather is cooling off (knock on wood) and fall break is only a week away -- time to take a break from your studies and curl up with a good book for an hour or two! If you're looking for suggestions to get you started, look no further than the list below: Hidden Figures, the 2017 choice for PVCC's One Book Program, celebrates the accomplishments of the African-American women who launched the first astronauts into orbit. If you're looking for more books about women and the stars, check out The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel, which reveals the hidden world of the women who worked as "human computers" at the Harvard College Observatory in the late 19th century; and Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Sarah Scoles, an exploration of the