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	Biographical Collections
		Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology University of Toronto
		Museum of the History of Science (University of Oxford)
		Osler Library of the History of Medicine McGill University
	www.chemistrycoach.com /history2.htm

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		Medical Center Archives announces a new online exhibit celebrating the history of the Duke Poison Control Center, the second official poison control center founded in the nation.
		Users will find descriptions of the resources, links to the trials, criteria for evaluation, and contact information for your feedback.
	www.mclibrary.duke.edu (150 words)

	Duke Lemur Center (DLC)
		The Duke Lemur Center is proud to announce this major step in the husbandry of one of the world's most unusual and fascinating primates.
		All adopted animals remain in the care and custody of the Duke Lemur Center and no ownership rights are granted through adoption.
		For example, if you wish to adopt a ringtail lemur you will receive information on the ringtail species in general as well as a life history of the highlighted individual.
	primatecenter.duke.edu (198 words)

	Philosophy Department :: Duke University
		The Center for Philosophy of Biology will host its 5th annual conference on April 28-30, 2006 at Duke University.
		The interdisciplinary graduate certificate program in History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (HPSTM) is now offered.
		Karen Neander (UC-Davis) will join the Department in Fall 2006.
	philosophy.duke.edu (58 words)

	Duke University Archives
		In Duke University, Dept. of History, Records, Honors papers, 904.D877.1983-HO Janiewski, Dolores E., From Field to Factory: Race, Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker in Durham, 1880-1940.
		Educator, sociologist, and expert on plantation society in the South, Thompson was Professor of Sociology, Duke University, from 1935 to 1970.
		Wippert A. Stumpf was Professor of Education, Duke University, 1948-1968.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /epub/pyatt/durh02.html (1064 words)

	Arts & Sciences and Trinity College - Duke University : News : Top Story : The Humanities at Duke
		Duke’s proposed Americas Studies Program will combine the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences with those of policy, law, and business to understand the complex interactions of the various nations of North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean.
		Amid the dust rising from construction projects on Science and Research Drives, with Duke’s having made a major investment in becoming a world leader in genomics, and with visions of a “science corridor” that will shift the locus of West Campus, Karla FC Holloway is making sure attention is paid to the humanities at Duke.
		Whether we are managing student lives or faculty development, we are part of a machine that facilitates the university enterprise.
	www.aas.duke.edu /news/topstories/humanities.php (1504 words)

	Anne Yoder Named Duke Primate Center Director
		Durham, N.C. A Yale University biologist whose scientific career was first inspired by a student tour of the Duke University Primate Center has been named the center's new director.
		According to Provost Peter Lange, the university's chief academic officer, Yoder's appointment represents the next and most significant step in the renewal of Duke's commitment to enhancing the Primate Center's complementary missions of research, teaching and conservation.
		Yoder also said she seeks to maintain the center's close ties with Duke's Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and to establish closer research and education relationships with other Duke units, such as the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP).
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2005/03/yoder_0305.html (1281 words)

	WilsonSzalay
		Szalay and Delson, Evolutionary History of the Primates, Academic Press, 1979, fig 129.
		It is also the latest occurring native primate in the United States.
		This is another North American prosimian that, like Rooneyia, is hard to classify, and was seen by Szalay and Delson as being highly different from other omomyids.
	www.fossils.duke.edu /learn/BAA246/SzalayDelson129.htm (118 words)

	DBI.BIO.a9512917.txt
		Title : Continued Support of the Duke University Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History Abstract : 9512917 Glander This award provides renewed support for maintenance of a collection of prosimian primates maintained at the Duke University Primate Center.
		The Duke Primate Center was established in 1966 with the help of an NSF award.
		Approximately 85% of the animals were bred at the Center.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/yguan/NSFAbstracts/Abstracts/BIO/DBI.BIO.a9512917.txt (179 words)

	Sports Medicine at Duke University
		Using a wide array of cutting-edge technologies, physicians, exercise physiologists and other researchers at a specialized laboratory at Duke University Medical Center are helping athletes — both elite and everyday -- reach their full potential and avoid potentially threatening injuries.
		he Duke Sports Medicine Center has a 70-year history of being a national leader in the treatment of professional athletes, non-professional athletes, and recreational athletes.
		"This extraordinary combination of programs allows the DSMC to utilize a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment and education of our patients," says Dr. James Nunley, chief of orthopaedics at Duke University Medical Center.
	www.dukesportsmedicine.com (427 words)

	Medical Center Archives
		Duke University Medical Center Archives collections consist of the administrative records of Duke University Medical Center departments and personal papers of individuals affiliated with Duke University Medical Center, the Duke University Health System, School of Medicine (including the Allied Health Educational Programs, and Area Health Education Center Program), and the School of Nursing.
		Since the 1970's, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) Archives has played a vital and important role in capturing institutional records and documents for DUMC and the Health System and ensuring their future availability for administrators, researchers, and scholars.
		Foundations of Excellence: An Archival Image Collection Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Duke Medicine, funded in part by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc., presents a selection of over 600 digitized photographs and publications.
	archives.mc.duke.edu (308 words)

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	www.onelook.com /?w=chronicle (257 words)

	Welcome to the History of Medicine Collections
		Discover the history of medicine in over 20,000 monographs and 4,000 manuscripts, as well as photographs, illustrations, medical instruments, stamps, medals, and a variety of medical realia.
		The History of Medicine Collections is located in room 102 of the Medical Center Library.
		The History of Medicine Collections houses many rare and significant works and an extensive circulating collection documenting medical practices and thought, and medicine's relationship to society through time.
	www.mclibrary.duke.edu /hmc (107 words)

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	EPIC Advisory Board
		His teaching career from 1965 to 1993 included Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Western Ontario, where he was professor of history and law from 1972 to 1999 and from which he is now a professor emeritus.
		She joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2000, having previously taught at the University of Dayton School of Law and the University of Idaho School of Law.
		Frank Tuerkheimer is the Habush-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin and of counsel to the Madison firm of LaFollette Godfrey and Kahn.
	www.epic.org /epic/advisory_board.html (6824 words)

	AAMC : Summer Medical Education Program - SMEP
		Of all the SMEP graduates who have applied to medical school, 63% have been accepted.
		The program is currently completing its final summer of operation.
		The Summer Medical Education Program (SMEP), formerly the Minority Medical Education Program (MMEP), had a long and distinguished history (PDF, 3 pages - 67KB) as a national academic enrichment program that helps promising, highly motivated students gain admission to medical school.
	www.aamc.org /students/considering/smep/start.htm (6824 words)

	ibiblio - Science, Science, Science
		PIC is driven by the desire to nurture the interest and enthusiasm of these audiences in the study of trees, plants, and natural history.
		The intent of the Plant Information Center (PIC) is to connect the research community and the general public (including school children) so that primary research materials owned by the University of North Carolina (UNC) can be made available to new audiences.
		Science for Monks aims to provide hands-on science and math education to advanced scholars within the Tibetan monastic community in India through educational workshops.
	www.ibiblio.org (931 words)

	Library of Economics and Liberty: Archived Articles
		Picture of Walter Bagehot courtesy of The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.
		History of Economic Thought (HET): Alphabetical Index (excellent bibliographical and biographical material covering a comprehensive list of economists)
		The cuneiform inscription in the logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
	www.econlib.org /library/archive.html (1755 words)

	Look-4-it: ART, ART OF ...
		Rhapsodies in Black Art of the Harlem Renaissance; Powell, Richard J. (Associate Professor of Art History, Duke University, USA);Bailey, David A. (Director, African and Asian Artists' Archive, University of East London)
		American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities Powell, Richard (Chairman, Art and Art History Department, Duke University, USA);Reynolds, Jock (Director, Yale University Art Gallery, USA); 026216186 Deleuze Connections Rajchman, John (Visiting Professor of Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, USA)
		Art for the Nation Exhibitions and the London Public, 1747-2001; Taylor, Brandon (Professor of History of Art and Design, Faculty of Arts, University of Southampton)
	book.look-4-it.com /Art (13728 words)

	redandblack.com - Temp dean given perm. position
		Antliff is an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the art and art history departments at Duke University.
		Mark Antliff, professor of art history at Duke University, will deliver the inaugural lecture in the English department's Lanier Speakers Series.
		Allison, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and Rutgers University, joined BB&T in 1971 and became its president in 1987.
	www.redandblack.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/17/414a88a09af16 (13728 words)

	CURRICULUM VITA
		Ph.D., City University of New York, Department of History
		Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Fellowship, Duke University-University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women, 1989-90
		Duke University-University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women, Humanist-in-Residence
	www.uic.edu /depts/hist/Faculty/Levine.htm (13728 words)

	Faculty
		She comes to Duke from Northwestern University where she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of African American Studies after receiving a doctoral degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University.
		Darity is Research Professor of Public Policy Studies, African American Studies and Economics at Duke University and Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is also Director of the Institute of African American Studies.
		Powell is the John Spenser Bassett Professor of Art History and the former chair of Duke's Department of Art and Art History.
	www.duke.edu /web/africanameric/faculty.html (1537 words)

	II Journal: Ten Years After the Unification Effect: A U-M Conference Looks at the "Berline Republic" Ten Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
		Hell received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1989, and is the author of Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysts, History, and the Literature of East Germany (Duke UP, 1997).
		As Moishe Postone (University of Chicago) noted in response to Klotz's paper, the reframing of German history in terms of a larger process of globalization runs the risk of playing down the singularity of German history.
		He received his PhD from Duke University and joined the U-M faculty in January 1998 after having taught four years at the University of Hildesheim in Germany.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol8no1/Moltke-Hell.htm (2892 words)

	Student papers on Duke
		Wolff, Stephen I. "The Early History of the Research Council at Trinity College and Duke University, 1919-1941: A Vital Link in the Launching of the University." (1978)
		"'The University is not an Island,' it's a world for polar bears: inequities in the structure of Duke University's Undergraduate Judicial Board."
		Carter, Glenn J. "The Rise to National Stature of the Duke University Law School, 1927-1935." (1978)
	www.duke.edu /web/Archives/history/studentwork.html (2892 words)

	Dukehealth.org: Dr. Charles Putnam, Duke Senior Vice President, Dies at Age 57
		In 1977, during Terry Sanford's presidency, Putman came to Duke from the Yale University School of Medicine to become chairman of radiology at the medical center.
		He held many professional memberships and had a long history of service to the American College of Chest Physicians, the Association of University Radiologists, the American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America.
		We will miss his Texas drawl, his understated sense of humor, his grit and determination, his commitment to excellence, and his loyal support of all things Duke." Putman received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.
	www.dukehealth.org /news/395 (1051 words)

	Samuel C. Pearson, Department of History, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE)
		Pearson has taught the History of Religion in America (History 342), the History of Religion in Europe (315), survey courses in U. history (200,201), and the interdisciplinary course on the Peoples and Cultures of the East (IS 324).
		Professor Samuel C. Pearson is a specialist in the history of religion with a focus on Christianity in the modern era.
		Pearson received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1964 and joined the SIUE faculty that year.
	www.siue.edu /HISTORY/Pearson.html (1051 words)

	Sierra Leone Bibliography - Compiled by Peter C. Andersen - Sierra Leone Web
		Roberts, George O., "The Anguish of Third World Independence: The Sierra Leone Experience," University Press of America [Washington, D.C.] 1982.
		Dallas, Robert Charles, "The History of the Maroons, From Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone: Including the Expedition to Cuba, for the Purpose of Procuring Spanish Chasseurs; and the State of the Island of Jamaica...With a Succinct History," A. Strahan [London], 1803; Cass [London] 1968.
		A Description of the Manners and Customs of the Liberated Africans; with Observations upon the Natural History of the Colony and a Notice of the Native Tribes," James Ridgway [London], 1843; African Publication Society [London] 1969.
	www.sierra-leone.org /bibliography.html (1051 words)

	Labor Libraries and Archives
		Labor History: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
		Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
		National Museum of Labour History: Manchester, U. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections: Washington, D. New York State Factory Investigating Commission: Albany, New York.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/soc/prof/mason/ASA/Links/libraries.html (586 words)

	American Historical Association
		Alex Roland is professor of history at Duke University, where he teaches military history and the history of technology.
		Her publications include Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), and one of the previous booklets in the AHA/SHOT series-- Technology, Society, and Culture in Late Medieval/Renaissance Europe, 1300--1600.
		A former president of the Society for the History of Technology, he was editor-in-chief of Technology and Culture from 1981 through 1995, and is now its book review editor.
	www.historians.org /pubs/SHOT.htm (586 words)

	The Infography about the Social History of Brazil
		Wartime Brazil is examined in Robert M. Levine, Brazil in the 1940s Through the Photographs of Genevieve Naylor (Duke University Press, 1998).
		Robert E. Conrad, Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994)
		Michael Conniff's Urban Politics in Brazil: The Rise of Populism, 1925-1945 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) analyzes populism in Rio de Janeiro.
	www.infography.com /content/632763079662.html (1503 words)

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