Hardin Library offers a quiet environment for studying along with free coffee Friday afternoon, May 5-Friday May 12.
Therapy dogs visit Friday, May 5 from 5-6:30pm.
The library is open until Midnight Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6.
Category: Fun
Apr
12
2017
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to the R. Palmer Howard Dinner for 2017.
Poet Leslie Adrienne Miller will speak on the resurrection trade. The resurrection trade is the business of trafficking in corpses, one that makes anatomical art possible. Miller delves into the mysteries of early anatomical studies and medical illustrations and finds stories of women’s lives–sometimes tragic, sometimes comic–as ex-posed as the drawings themselves.
The poems become powerful testimonies to women’s bodies objectified and misunderstood throughout history and bring a new truth to what she calls “the strange collusion of imaginary science and real art.”
Location: Kinnick Center, Radisson Hotel, 1220 1st Avenue, Coralville, Iowa
Friday, April 28, 2017
Reception at 6pm, cash bar with hors d’oeuvres provided
Dinner at 7pm
Presentation at 8pm
Please register and prepay by April 25. Cost is $10 for students, $40 for everyone else. Printable HOM 2017 Banquet Registration Form
Please consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events or student participation in the R. Palmer Howard Dinner.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Janna Lawrence in advance at 319-335-9871.
Mar
07
2017
The Anatomy of Melancoly, 1624
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the University Libraries invite you to the annual open house in the John Martin Rare Book Room.
Early Modern England: Medicine, Shakespeare & Books
Thursday, March 23, 2017, 4pm-7pm
John Martin Rare Book Room, 4th Floor, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
37 books from 1531 to 1697 will be on display highlighting general medical beliefs, herbals, monsters, poisons and cures. The books will also feature Shakespeare’s contemporaries and doctors in Shakespeare’s plays.
Henry IV, Part II
Donate to the Hardin Library. Donate to the UI History of Medicine Society.
Directions to Hardin Library.
Limited metered parking available behind library. Newton Road Parking Ramp 1 block away.
Cambus: take Pentacrest route to VA Loop or Newton Road Ramp stops.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.
Mar
06
2017
Pi day is 3.14 but we are celebrating early this year due to Spring Break!
Mar
02
2017
Celebrate Iowa City Dawin Day, a celebration of science and it’s contributions to humanity! Darwin Day is sponored by The University of Iowa Libraries.
Schedule of Events
March 3rd-4th, 2017
(all events free and open to the public)
| Friday, March 3 | |
| Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building | |
| 2PM | Darwin Day Poster Session + Reception |
| 3PM | Anne Fausto-Sterling: “Acquiring Gender: From Baby in a Yellow Hat to Gender Identity and Expression” |
| 3:45PM | Richard Wrangham: “Self-domestication in bonobos and humans” |
| 4:30PM | Intermission/Reception |
| 4:45PM | Rosemary and Peter Grant: “In Search of the Causes of Evolution”
Peter and Rosemary Grant are Princeton University Professors Emeriti who have spent more than 40 years studying Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands. Among many other awards, they are winners of the Darwin-Wallace medal and the Kyoto Prize. The Grants are the authors of more than 100 scientific papers, and their work was the primary subject of the award-winning book “The Beak of the Finch” by Johnathan Weiner. |
| Saturday, March 4 | |
| MacBride Auditorium | |
| 9AM | Opening Reception (coffee and pastries) |
| 9:30AM | Mary Kosloski: “Crushing crabs and sinistral snails: how a super predator changed snail shape”
The University of Iowa’s own Mary Kosloski is a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. A paleoecologist, Dr. Kosloski studies how environments influence the evolution of animal morphologies, particularly among marine gastropods. Because her research deals with long- and short-term responses to environmental change, it is highly relevant to many present-day conservation and ecological concerns. |
| 10AM | Rosemary and Peter Grant: “40 Years of Evolution. A long-term study of Darwin’s Finches in Galápagos.” |
| 11AM | Richard Wrangham: “How cooking made us human”
Richard Wrangham is a Professor at Harvard University and founder of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project. A biological anthropologist and primatologist, he is best known for his work on the role of cooking in human evolution and on the evolution of human warfare. He is the author of two popular science books, Demonic Males and Catching Fire. |
| 12PM | Anne Fausto-Sterling: “Evolution and Gender in the 21st Century”
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Professor Emerita at Brown University, is known for her work in various areas of evolution and development, including her criticism of the nature vs. nurture dichotomy, her study of the relationship between science and gender, and her research in the area of childhood gender differentiation. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the author of three books, including Sexing the Body and Myths of Gender.
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| 1PM | Darwin Day Birthday Celebration (Hall of Birds) |
| 2-5PM | NCSE Teaching Workshop (106 BBE; “Darwin Day 2017 Teacher Workshop: Teaching NGSS Evolution Without a Budget” A 3-hour workshop addressing content and process with NGSS alignment- and an eye for supply costs |
Jan
10
2017
The Hardin Library will be closed on Monday, January 16 for the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday.
The University of Iowa celebrates with the MLK Day of service event on Monday, January 16, and celebrates human rights week with a variety of events across campus.
Oct
07
2016
“Civility on Trial” considers the clash of expectations that confronted surgeons and relief workers in military hospitals during the Civil War.
This lecture will be held on Thursday, October 27 at 5:30pm in 2117 MERF.
MERF is located at 375 Newton Road, Iowa City.
The spectacle of death that gripped the public imagination raised physicians’ professional status and brought medicine to the center of a cultural dialogue once reserved for the clergy, but did little to raise the prospects of nurses and other subordinate health workers.
Professor Schultz is the nation’s foremost historian of Civil War nurses and female hospital workers. She has published books and articles on how gender and race shaped women’s Civil War experiences, medical humanities, and Civil War medicine and literature.
This lecture is sponsored by The History of Medicine Society and Iowa Women’s Archives.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.
Aug
28
2016
University of Iowa Libraries’ Gallery will host the only stop in the state of Iowa for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio.
First Folio will be on display at the Main Library Gallery from August 29 through September 25, 2016. Location and hours
Many events are scheduled throughout both the campus and community in celebration of the event. Complete information available online.
Organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the tour is produced in association with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association. First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare offers a rare glimpse of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world’s most significant books, as it visits all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.
Many of Shakespeare’s plays were not published during his lifetime. The First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. It was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Two of Shakespeare’s fellow actors compiled 36 of his plays, hoping to preserve them for future generations. Without it, we would not have 18 of Shakespeare’s plays, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, and As You Like It. All 18 appear for the first time in print in the First Folio.
Jul
19
2016
Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection is now on exhibit at Hardin Library. The exhibit explores a 2,588 postcard archive spanning over 100 years. Images of nursing and the nursing profession around the world have been frequent subjects of postcards.
Postcards are influenced by popular ideas and social and culture life, as well as fashion. These images of nurses and nursing are informed by cultural values; ideas about women, men, and work; and attitudes toward class, race, and national differences. By documenting the relationship of nursing to significant forces in 20th-century life, such as war and disease, these postcards reveal how nursing was seen during those times.
500 additional postcards may be viewed online.
This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.