American Institute of Graphic Arts - A major professional organization, AIGA supports the interests of professionals, educators and students who are engaged in the process of designing, regardless of where they are in the arc of their careers.
Art History Resources - links to galleries, research sources, and prints, from Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Whitcomb, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College.
World Arts Resources - very well organized links to every aspect of the visual arts from museums and artists to art supplies, plus links on performing arts, antiques, and architecture.
Astronomy
Bad Astronomy - Phil's a professional astronomer whose site discusses errors, flubs, goofs, myths, and just plain stupidity about astronomy (are you listening, George Lucas?) Funny and informative, with lots of links to other bad science sites.
Stars and Constellations This site by a grad student defines constellations, lists them with their component stars, and has an interactive star chart and many illustrations.
The Virtual Sun Excellent graphic site takes you on a journey through the sun.
Medical Mnemonics - trying to learn meiosis, mitosis, or retroperitoneal structures? There are dozens of mnemonics here for anatomy, biochemistry, medical fields, and even some physics.
Talk.Origins Usenet Devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. This archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another.
The Tree of Life A collaborative Web project, produced by biologists from around the world. On more than 3000 Web pages, the Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. Great graphics and scientifically sound.
Visible Human Project "creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies;" photographs from the National Library of Medicine.
Virtual Cell Actively dissect a plant cell and observe each part in this mix of still images, text and movies covering the structure and functioning of a plant cell.
Economics Links - from Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Economics; based in the UK, but many links to US sites as well.
Econlit - abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals, abstracts of books and indexes articles in books, from the American Economic Association.
Baycon Group - provides tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics. All tutorials are in depth, comprehensive, online, and -- best of all -- absolutely FREE.
AdPrima—“Straightforward, useful education information designed for new teachers, future teachers, education students, and also for anyone interested in education" by Robert Kizlik, associate professor of education at Florida Atlantic University.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - by the late Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College in Hartford, CT; maintained in his memory with excellent info in text and Power Point, quizzes, links, and Anomalous Anonymies!
KnightCite Bibliography Machine - enter your citation info and have it formatted in MLA, APA, or Chicago Style at this great site from the Hekman Library at Calvin College!
Writing Tutorials Web site. University of Iowa. Developed for accounting, yes accounting students, covers the writing process, improving grammar, improving style, and a student writing workshop. (Enter "writing" in search window.)
Literary History - "Challenging the Status Quo of Academia" with a well-edited collection of literature papers published on the Web.
Literature Resource Center - (LRC electronic database) Contains criticisms, biographies, work overviews. InfoTrac Website at www.sc4.edu/aac.
Geography
The Geography Exchange - This UK-based page gives a different perspective to physical geography, featuring Alpine Glaciers rather than Alaskan ones.
Geography/Political Science: The CIA's World Fact Book - The World Factbook provides information on the people, history, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and other issues for hunderds of world entities.
National Geographic Society - Inspires people to care about the planet. Encourages geography education for students, promotes natural and cultural conservation, and inspires audiences through new media, vibrant exhibitions and live events.
Geology
The Geological Society of America - The GSA was founded in 1888, and its site is loaded with links on research, for students, and for teachers.
GeologyLink - this site by publisher Houghton Mifflin has a great collection of links to 'virtual field trips" and online classes.
U. S. Geological Survey - Provides access to information on earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, climate hhange, geologic mapping, minerals, energy and more.
Volcanoes Page From Michigan Tech, this site contains maps, pictures, live video feeds, all kinds of information on ongoing eruptions, cartoons illustrating volcanic humor.
The History Guide - European history (Western civ, in other words) resources and ninety on-line lectures by Steven Kreis, who teaches at Meredith College in North Carolina.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - an extensive collection of well-categorized links, plus a wonderful Help! page about net research, library research, and writing; from Fordham University.
Odin's Castle - a huge collection of links maintained by doctoral student Paul Gwynn.
U.S. National Archives - visit our National Archives, not only for the seminal documents such as the Constitution. and Declaration of Independence, but for records on everything from the 1st Air Depot to Zwick, Charles. Check the Exhibit Hall.
Languages
Yourdictionary.com - online dictionaries for about 300 of the approximately 6,800 known languages from Abenaki to Zulu.
American Sign Language Browser - from MSU, "where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them."
Languages: iLoveLanguages - over 2000 links to dictionaries, documents, on-line lessons, and plenty of great stuff in Spanish, French, Signed Languages, English, and other human languages such as Icelandic and Swahili.
Ask Dr. Math - from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Lots of useful answers to questions and great links to other sites. Check out the Internet Math Library.
Calc101 - step-by-step solutions for "derivatives, graphs, integrals, matrix algebra, [and] systems of linear equations."
Mathematics inside Microsoft Word - the basics and quick tips on using the Equation Editor in Word, from math instructor Steve Simonds at Portland Community College in Oregon.
Purplemath - "Practical Algebra Lessons" from preliminary topics like fractions and negative numbers to systems of linear equations.
S O S Math - 2500 pages of algebra, trig, calculus, differential equations, and practice quizzes and exams from professors in the Math Department at University of Texas-El Paso.
Webmath for fun and practice problems with all kinds of math from arithmetic to calculus.
How to Study Physics - This document was from a 1949 pamphlet, but its advice for studying is still effective. From the Website of Dr. Donald E. Simanek, Professor of Physics at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.
Physicsworld - a great site for information about atomic, molecular & optical physics, Nuclear & particle physics, Condensed matter, Astronomy, astrophysics & cosmology.
Alleydog - "Psychology students, meet your new best friend: AlleyDog.com, the site dedicated to helping you succeed and enjoy psychology;" created by Doug Kaufman, Ph.D.
Theater History on the Web is an extensive site maintained by a retired University of Washington theater instructor
Multi-subject Sites
Academic Resource Core - Online notes, tests, and tutorials in many subjects from Accounting and Algebra to Visual Basic and Windows from colleges all over the world! Lots of material on computers, including C++ and HTML. A fantastic list compiled by Ken Foster of the Academic Resource Center at Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis.
How to Study - in general and for specific subjects; great links from Lucy MacDonald at Chemeketa Community College in Oregon.
Firstgov - U.S. government's official portal; search it for an enormous amount of information on practically any topic.
MIT OpenCourseWare - 1,250 courses from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT's schools.
Due to the dynamic and evolving nature of information posted to the Internet, occasionally some of the sites listed below will become inactive. The Achievement Center staff does review the list on a regular basis to remove inactive sites and provide access to new sites. Contact us to report dead links.
