News and Notes
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Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755
June 21, 2017
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
June 20, 2017
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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David Ceccarelli Completes Ph.D. at University of Rome Tor Vergata
June 15, 2017
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.
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Carin Berkowitz on the History of Science Museums
June 14, 2017
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
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Christopher Willoughby Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship
June 13, 2017
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.
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Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys
June 8, 2017
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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APS Debuts New Digital Library
June 8, 2017
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.
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New York Academy of Medicine Launches New Digital Collections Website
June 7, 2017
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
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Michelle Smiley on Clockmaking in Philadelphia
June 6, 2017
Michelle Smiley (2016-2017 Dissertation Fellow) recently published an article on the history of clockmaking in Philadelphia for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
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Rockefeller Archive Center Makes Papers of R. Bruce Merrifield Available for Research
June 5, 2017
The Rockefeller Archive Center is pleased to announce that the Papers of R. Bruce Merrifield are now open and available for research.