This large collection holds material from the long-serving president of one of the most important American technology companies in the twentieth century.

The Consortium is delighted to welcome Harvard University as its newest member.

The additions to the University Archives collections include materials science and engineering records.

Alicia Puglionesi, Johns Hopkins University
2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow

Michelle Smiley, Bryn Mawr
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow

The papers of physicist Rose Le Dieu Mooney Slater (1902-1981) include 10.5 linear feet of correspondence, research and print material that document Mooney-Slater’s career as a professor, department chair, research physicist and accomplished crystallographer; concentrating on the structure of crystals and crystalline materials using X-ray diffraction.

The Adler Planetarium is pleased to announce that the Webster Photographs Collection is now available for research.

The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, at Yale University, seeks a person with interest and expertise in Economics and History for a postdoctoral position. The appointment will begin in July of 2018 and continue until June of 2019. The primary duties of the postdoctoral associate will be to research and write a history of the Cowles Foundation and its relationship to the discipline of Economics. In doing so, the researcher will draw upon published materials, the Cowles archives, and archival materials at other locations.

"Grappling with the Futures" will begin an interdisciplinary dialogue that interrogates the goals, concepts, and methods of futures studies and probes informal futures-oriented thinking that is ubiquitous in social thought and practice. Abstracts due November 3.

Electrophysiological lab
Electrophysiological lab at McGill University. Image courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center.