News and Notes

Congratulations to Christopher Willoughby (2014-2015 Research Fellow) who will be postdoctoral fellow at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.

Christopher is also co-organizing a symposium titled, "Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery" to be held at Rice University in February 2018. Symposium details, including the call for papers can be found at: http://medicineandhealingintheageofslavery.blogs.rice.edu/.

AJ Blandford, Rutgers University
2016 to 2017 Research Fellow

The APS has recently launched the upgraded Digital Library, featuring improved navigation and responsive design that makes the site easier to read on a variety of screen sizes. The site also highlights interpretive galleries of APS collections created by staff and Digital Library interns. Galleries include digital projects on the Britton Chance Collection, the Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers, and the Henry Howard Houston II Papers.

The New York Academy of Medicine Library announces the launch of its new digital collections and exhibits website, hosted on the open-source framework Islandora and accessible at http://digitalcollections.nyam.org/. The new site makes it easy for the public to access and explore highlights of the Library’s world-class historical collections in the history of medicine and public health.

Michelle Smiley (2016-2017 Dissertation Fellow) recently published an article on the history of clockmaking in Philadelphia for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Please find the article here: http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/clocks-and-clockmakers/.

The Rockefeller Archive Center is pleased to announce that the Papers of R. Bruce Merrifield are now open and available for research.

In May 2017, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives hosted "Conversations on the History of Eugenics."

Rosanna Dent (2016-2017 Fellow in Residence) will be Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies at McGill next year, and will be assuming a position as assistant professor in the Federated Department of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year. 

Carolyn Roberts (2015-2016 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a joint appointment in History/History of Science and Medicine and African American Studies at Yale University.

Congratulations to Julia Mansfield (2013-2014 Dissertation Writing Fellow and 2014-2017 Fellow in Residence), who will be the Cassius M. Clay Fellow in the History Department, Yale University for 2017-2019.