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Helen Tredway Graham, Heinbecker, Ernest Simms “… contributed measurably to Washington University’s reputation for research pre-eminence.”
The Becker Library exhibit “Compounding Potential – A History of the Neurosciences at WashU” gives a brief historical overview of neuroscience research at Washington University. The exhibit still is on display in the Glaser Gallery on the 7th floor of the Bernard Becker Medical Library for a few more days in June 2026 so it [Read more]
BJC Today now available in Digital Commons@Becker
528 recently digitized issues of BJC Today are now accessible through the Digital Commons@Becker. Digital Commons@Becker is an institutional repository designed to share the scholarly work and research materials of WashU Medicine with a broad audience, and to make them more easily accessible. Becker Archives uses the Digital Commons to make certain archival materials more [Read more]
Precursors to the famous Washington Manual are now accessible online in the Digital Commons@Becker.
Before it evolved into one of the bestselling medical texts ever published, the Washington Manual began as a series of notes and observations compiled by internal medicine residents rounding at Barnes Hospital in the early 1940s. These “treatment pro tips” were collected throughout the course of a year of clinical rounding, and then assembled into [Read more]