Lijing Jiang, Arizona State University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Kathryn Irving, Yale University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow

Jeremy Blatter, Harvard University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Douglas O’Reagan, University of California, Berkeley
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Catherine Bonier, University of Pennsylvania
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

Drexel University Libraries announces the acquisition of a collection of faculty papers documenting the rise of microcomputing at Drexel. Tom Hewett, Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, began teaching at Drexel in 1973.

The history of homeopathic medicine in the United States is rooted in the area around Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art was founded in 1835 as the first school in the United States to teach homeopathic medicine. Known as the Allentown Academy, the school published sixteen issues of the Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopatischen Aerzte from 1835-1836.

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The Library of the American Philosophical Society has received the papers of Britton Chance (1913-2010), the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Emeritus Professor of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiologic Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Chance was a world leader in transforming theoretical science into useful biomedical and clinical applications. He developed dozens of devices for use in biomedical research, making or facilitating the making of many important discoveries.

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Plate IX from Mendes da Costa, Emanuel, British Conchology, 1778. Image courtesy of the Wagner Free Institute of Science.