Jeffrey Brideau (2012-2013 Dissertation Writing Fellow) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Bond Rather Than A Barrier? Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway," at the University of Maryland in May 2014. He now holds a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Water Resources, at the United States Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Alexandria, VA. He will also be teaching in the STS program at Virginia Tech for spring 2015.

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Red poppy, or Papaver rhoeas

Red poppy, or Papaver rhoeas, from an unpublished manuscript titled English medical botany : or coloured figures of British medical plants with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth, to which are added occasional remarks, by Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., 1822.