How Can You Ever Smile As If Your Life Hadn’t Capsized?

Summer trip 2018: The Clay Castle, Transfagarasan Road, Sighisoara Medieval City and Turda Salt Mine / Romania.

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Women and Early-Career Archaeologists Significantly Impacted by Pandemic, Baylor-led Study Finds

WACO, Texas (Oct. 8, 2021) – A new study, led by Baylor University researcher Julie Hoggarth, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology, ev

"“My colleagues and I decided to do this study since we were personally impacted by the pandemic and had been hearing anecdotal accounts of archaeologists who had been negatively impacted. We were curious just how widespread career impacts were and if they were concentrated among certain groups of the archaeological community,” Hoggarth said."

The English Patient — Almàsy + landscapes

“ I know you’ll come carry me out to the Palace of Winds. That’s what I’ve wanted: to walk in such a place with you. With friends, on an earth without maps. ”

Women Scientists on the New Book Shelf

Just to be clear, there are only books on the new book shelf - not people.  But some of those books were written by and about women, and, as Women’s History Month draws to a close, we call attention to a few.  Follow the links to see the catalog record and contents, reviews, etc., for each:

Rebels, scholars, explorers : women in vertebrate paleontology / Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner

The story of life in 10 ½ species / Marianne Taylor

Human / Amanda Rees and Charlotte Sleigh

Our biosocial brains : the cultural neuroscience of bias, power, and injustice / Michele K. Lewis

Books on display are just a small sliver of new books available!  Browse online, using the “New in the Science Library” guide (depicted above); one of many “General Purpose Guides” in the Research Tools section of the library website.  Tens of thousands of more books are available from OBIS in digital form.  Click on the eBooks tab to focus your search to that format, or limit your search results to location=internet.  

Happy searching!  Contact library staff anytime for assistance.

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Two UC San Diego Scientists Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Left: JoAnn Trejo, PhD, is professor in the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and assistant vice chancellor for UC San Diego Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Right: Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, is professor in the Division of Host Microbe Systems and Therapeutics in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and adjunct professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego.

Leaders in cell biology and anti-malarial drug development respectively, JoAnn Trejo and Elizabeth Winzeler were recognized by their peers with one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

Trejo is known for discovering how cellular responses are regulated by molecules known as G protein-coupled receptors, particularly in the context of vascular inflammation and cancer. Her findings have advanced the fundamental knowledge of cell biology and helped identify new targets for drug development. Trejo’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including a recent NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award.

Winzeler is known for her early contribution to the field of functional genomics, where she worked primarily in the model yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Concerned about global health disparities and the alarming rise in the number of worldwide malaria cases in the early 2000s, she shifted her research focus to malaria, beginning with functional genomics and then moving to drug discovery.

“Two UC San Diego Scientists Elected to National Academy of Medicine”

May 12th is International Nurses Day!

We have a few nursing materials in our collections such as Chemistry for Nurses (1914), pictured above, and Applied Chemistry for Nurses (1926).

Celebrating Oberlin Women in Science and Medicine

All this month, the Science Library is highlighting the lives, research and medical breakthroughs of Oberlin College affiliated women, with displays at the library’s entrance, social media posts, and photographs of notable women added to the portrait collection on the north wall.  That small collection was male-dominated for decades - it was high time to represent the achievements of scientists and medical professionals who identify as female.  

The recent additions to the portrait wall are June E. Osborn ‘57 (photo above), Joanne Chory ‘77 and Matilda Arabella Evans, who attended Oberlin in the late 1880s, leaving in 1891.

Thanks to Science Library Associate Jennifer Schreiner for creating the elements for the display on the bulletin board.  We invite you to take a look!  The display is summarized on the ObieSciLib Instragram post on March 8.

See also ObieSciLib on Tumblr for a look at the current Oberlin College women of science.  Women in all of the natural science departments regularly publish research articles, numbering over 40 articles in the past four years alone.  Books also have been published recently; see these authors in OBIS: Marta Laskowski, Jillian Scudder, and Lynne Bianchi.  The tradition of scientific achievement and contributing to scientific knowledge continues.