Is your sweetie into immunology? Does your heartthrob have a lab job? If so, send your beloved one of these valentines from the Becker Archives!
From February 5-9, 2024, libraries, archives and other cultural institutions around the world are sharing free coloring sheets and books based on materials from their collections. On the first floor of Becker Library, you’ll find snacks, coloring books and materials, so let your inner child take over! Read on to learn more about the images chosen from Becker’s rare [Read more]
The Feuerstein Health & Wellness Library located in the atrium of Becker Library, contains many books on wellness but there is also a large, available collection of DEI books. Check out one of the five most popular!
Bernard Becker Medical Library is fortunate to have robust collections in archives and rare books that document the history of medicine from the late 15th century up to the present. Subjects in which the library’s holdings are particularly strong include ophthalmology and optics, neurology, deaf education and the history of dentistry. To encourage researchers living [Read more]
Learn more about the updated ICMJE Recommendations, the December 2023 NSF notice on Artificial Intelligence, and a new video on using SciENcv for NSF biosketches.
Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin on the 22nd of April 1909. She was one of 4 children, 3 girls and 1 boy, born to Adamo Levi, a gifted mathematician, and Adele Montalcini, a skilled painter. While both parents were considered highly cultured and had a strong appreciation for intellectual pursuits, certain educational [Read more]
In February 1974, Dr. Jerome Cox, Jr., gave a speech at his alma mater, MIT, which asked, “Why Don’t We Have a Medical-Industrial Complex”? While the use of technology in medicine had certainly progressed since the 1950s, he suggested “a gap exists between expectations and accomplishments,” noting “[t]hings haven’t moved as they have in the [Read more]
Becker Medical Library is pleased to announce a new “Read & Publish” agreement with Future Science Group, a publisher of scientific journals. This agreement allows for a full waiver of Article Processing Charges (APCs) for works published by Washington University corresponding authors, starting January 1, 2024 and ending December 31, 2025.
The new E-Journal Tips and Hints guide is designed to assist with using e-Journals and accessing articles. The Bernard Becker Medical Library along with Danforth Campus University Libraries provides a rapidly growing collection of e-journals covering many subjects. Sometimes that variety and pace of change can make locating journal articles complicated. The guide can [Read more]
What makes a good memory? How about a good meal? For members of the Washington University medical center who served with Base Hospital 21 during the First World War, special dinners were an important part of maintaining morale for the unit’s doctors, nurses, and enlisted men who were often overwhelmed with the wounded soldiers streaming [Read more]