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News and Notes
Wellcome Trust Providing Support for Research Fellowships
The Wellcome Trust will provide funding for Consortium Research Fellows from Brazil, South Africa and India.
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News and Notes
Harvard University Joins Consortium
The Consortium is delighted to welcome Harvard University as its newest member.
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Featured Event
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 6:30pmSusan Lindee, Projit Bihari Mukharji, and Joanna Radin
Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of Biobanking and the Genetic Archive
American Philosophical Society and the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Are we now approaching a time when we could all live, at least in freezers, forever? This public forum explores some of the historical and social questions raised by the "frozen archive."
Upcoming Events
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September 19, 2017
Allan Franklin, University of Colorado
Is Seeing Believing? Direct and Indirect Observation in Physics
American Institute of Physics (College Park, MD)
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September 21, 2017
Adler After Dark: Saturn Saloon
Adler Planetarium (Chicago, IL)
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September 21, 2017
Marina Vulis, Norwalk Community College and CUNY
The Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Mathematics in 18th-19th Century Russia
Philadelphia Area Seminar on History of Mathematics
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September 22, 2017
James Costa, Highlands Biological Station, Highlands, NC, and Western Carolina University
Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Humanities Institute of The New York Botanical Garden and the American Museum of Natural History—Darwin Manuscripts Project (New York, NY)
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September 23, 2017
Raymond Tschoepe and Tom Mcpoyle, Fairmount Park Conservancy
Historic Wood Window Restoration, Identification, and Maintenance
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
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September 25, 2017
Julie Livingston, New York University
Cattle/Beef -- Health, Development, and Self-Consuming Growth in Botswana
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
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September 26, 2017
Scott Devine
Academy Library Acquisitions Night
The New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
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September 27, 2017
John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania
Barnum, Bache, and Poe: American Science and the Antebellum Public
Columbia University (New York, NY)
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September 27, 2017
Professor Darin Hayton
The Cosmos: A History of Modern Astronomy
The Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, PA)
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September 28, 2017
Luis Campos, University of New Mexico
Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology and the Future of Life
Library of Congress (Washington, DC)