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Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755

Louis Gerdelan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University. He is a 2016-2017 Consortium Research Fellow.
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June 2017 Newsletter

The June Newsletter welcomes the Adler Planetarium and SHOT as well as 2017-18 fellows to the Consortium. It also has updates on working groups, events and other activities.
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Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys

AJ Blandford is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University. In 2016-2017, she was a Consortium Research Fellow.

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David Ceccarelli Completes Ph.D. at University of Rome Tor Vergata

Congratulations to David Ceccarelli (2015-2016 Research Fellow), who recently completed his Ph.D. in Historical, Philosophical and Social Sciences at University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Carin Berkowitz on the History of Science Museums

Congratulations to Carin Berkowitz (2009-2010 Dissertation Writing Fellow), on the publication of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (University of Pittsburgh Press), which she co-edited with Bernard Lightman.
Christopher Willoughby Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship

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.
APS Debuts New Digital Library

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.
New York Academy of Medicine Launches New Digital Collections Website

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/.

July 13, 2017

Old Collections and New Science: A Mütter Research Institute Symposium

College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
August 22, 2017

Randi Hutter Epstein, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
September 13, 2017

Faye Wattleton, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

On the Front Lines of Reproductive Rights

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
September 14, 2017

Patricia D’Antonio, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania

Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstrations in New York City

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
September 28, 2017

Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania

The Great War and Modern Veteran Care

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
October 10, 2017

Susan Lamb, University of Ottawa

Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Founding Father: Adolf Meyer

New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
October 12, 2017

Dava Sobel

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Linda Hall Library
October 22, 2017

Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia

Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
October 26, 2017

SHOT Annual Meeting

Society for the History of Technology
November 9, 2017

HSS Annual Meeting

History of Science Society