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A Conversation with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

Tune in one last time to a bonus episode of The DNA Papers with the authors of "the most beautiful experiment in biology" as they reminisce about "the best years of their lives."
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Chasing the Magic Bullet: The History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

Consortium Fellow Kirsten Moore-Sheeley discusses the history and consequences of failures and challenges in vaccine research.
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New Online Working Groups for 2024-2025

Join an online working group for exciting monthly discussions on specialized topics in history of science, technology and medicine.

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Research Fellowships from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Applications are due October 15, 2024.
Elizabeth Coates Paschall Receipt Book Digitized

The book is available in partnership with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
Call for Papers: 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

Celebrating the Physical Sciences and Embracing Diversity:
The 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences
NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2025

he National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research using the NLM collection
Untangling the Manuscripts and Medicine of the Pseudo-Apuleius Group

Consortium NEH Fellow Shirley Kinney uncovers the fluid nature of a group of medical texts that were copied, translated and modified across Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.
Call for Working Group Papers, 2024-2025

Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
New York Academy of Medicine Library Fellowships Available

The New York Academy of Medicine Library offers two annual research fellowships to support the advancement of scholarly research in the history of medicine and public health. Fellowship recipients are in-house scholars who conduct research using the Library's collections and resources.
Forests and Power in the United States Empire, 1891-1914

Research Fellow Evan Bonney reports on his research into the science of forestry adopted by the United States Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior as a tool of soft power for the United States Empire at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 11:00 am EDT

Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 2:00 pm EDT

History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 10:00 am EDT

History of Media Studies

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 2:00 pm EDT

Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:45 pm EDT

Lawrence Principe

The Mysteries of the Bologna Stone, the First Artificially Produced Phosphorescent Material

Thursday, September 19, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Susan Lederer

Speaker Series in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Thursday, September 19, 2024 1:00 pm EDT

Reproductive Health Histories

Friday, September 20, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

Friday, September 20, 2024 5:00 pm EDT

Nichola Harris

Lapidary Medicine: Mineral Pharmacology within the Medical Marketplace of Early Modern England

Monday, September 23, 2024 11:00 am EDT

Insect Humanities

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