Exhibit Opening: Rosalind Franklin University, May 10

Submitted by CAMA member, Kelly Reiss, Feet First Exhibition and Archives Coordinator at Rosalind Franklin University:

Rosalind Franklin University invites you to a reception celebrating the opening of a new exhibit: 

Views from the Past and Present: The Buildings of Rosalind Franklin University

This is an exciting time for Rosalind Franklin University as it celebrates its centennial. 

Learn more about the school and its long legacy here:

http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/centennial.aspx

Please join the RFUMS community for a reception to open this exhibit of images and artifacts from 100 years of the University’s learning environment.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Feet First Exhibition Hall
3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL 60064

The exhibit will run through August 3, 2012.

For more information call 847.578.8417 or email kelly.reiss@rosalindfranklin.edu

Book Release Event: The Historic Medical Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago

-Submitted by CAMA member, Kevin O'Brien:

You are invited to an event celebrating the release of The Historic Medical Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Eileen Tanner.

 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

UIC Library of the Health Sciences 

Special Collections Department (Room 320)

1750 W. Polk St.

312-996-8977

Author Eileen Tanner will describe the process of research that went into designing this new history and self-guided walking tour of the UIC medical campus and the surrounding neighborhood.

CAMA members may remember Eileen from her presentation at CAMA's 2010 Medical History Symposium, which was hosted by Northwestern Memorial Hospital that year.

Learn more about this new, informative resource in this article in UIC Library News:

Historic Medical Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago: Eileen Tanner’s Snapshot of UIC

News: Percival Bailey Brain Specimens Collection Now Online

-Submitted by CAMA member, Kevin O'Brien:

 

The Special Collections Department of the University of Illinois Chicago Library of the Health Sciences has made available a collection of digital images of neuropathology brain specimens created by Dr. Percival Bailey (1892-1973).  

From UIC's collection, brain specimen featuring pontine glioma.

Bailey, a pathologist and neurosurgeon, had strong connections to several Chicago-area academic institutions, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois. Among his many career achievements was a collaboration with Harvey Cushing in the 1920s at the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in Boston that resulted in the important book, A Classification of the Tumors of the Glioma Group.

Bailey created this collection of plastic-embedded brain specimens in his laboratory at the University of Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he was a faculty member from 1939 to 1951.

Many of the specimens included in the digital collection may be view in an exhibit at the Library of the Health Sciences which will run into the spring of 2012.

View digital images of over two hundred brain specimens online through CARLI Digital Collections:

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_uic_neuro.php?CISOROOT=/uic_neuro

For more information about this digital collection or the exhibit, please contact Kevin O’Brien at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences Special Collections Department:

UIC Library of the Health Sciences

1750 W. Polk St.

Chicago, Illinois

312-996-8977

kevinm@uic.edu

http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/manuscripts-and-rare-books