News and Notes
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Beer History Studies Fellowship at Newberry Library
October 11, 2024
Application deadline is January 3, 2025.
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Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911
October 10, 2024
Read about Minseok Jang's research exploring energy history and the anti-trust movement during the transition to artificial lighting and kerosene.
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University of Illinois Receives NEH Grant to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women Scientists
October 4, 2024
The University of Illinois Library has received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create digital resources and the foundation for a network of partners that amplifies access to the digitized archives of women scientists, focusing initially on the domestic science movement.
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Explore Medicine on Screen from the National Library of Medicine
September 25, 2024
Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections.
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Book Launch ~ Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities
September 25, 2024
Join the National Institute of Health to celebrate the open-access publication of Challenging Stories: Exploring t
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Addictive Forms: Opium, Physiology, and the Stimulable Empire in the Nineteenth Century
September 18, 2024
Read about the research of Consortium Fellow Menglu Gao, as she rethinks the conceptual relationship between addiction and empire in the nineteenth century, based on her research in the collections of the Wellcome and Yale University.
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Research Fellowships from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center
September 11, 2024
Applications are due October 15, 2024.
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Elizabeth Coates Paschall Receipt Book Digitized
August 19, 2024
The book is available in partnership with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
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Chasing the Magic Bullet: The History and Consequences of Vaccine Research
August 13, 2024
Consortium Fellow Kirsten Moore-Sheeley discusses the history and consequences of failures and challenges in vaccine research.
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Call for Papers: 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences
August 8, 2024
Celebrating the Physical Sciences and Embracing Diversity:
The 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences