The Bernard Becker Medical Library has a new Subject Guide, Test Preparation Resources, that highlights a number of print and electronic test preperation resources to help you study for boards and shelf exams.
The end of fall is the season when the veil between our world and the spirit world is thinnest. That means Halloween is the best possible time to try to communicate with ghosts and spirits!
Join us for some Halloween fun! Becker Library is hosting its second annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest from October 24-28 in the library atrium. Anyone may enter. Simply bring your decorated pumpkin to the library during regular hours on October 24. The top two carved, painted or otherwise decorated pumpkins will win a prize. Staff and patrons may vote in the [Read more]
Washington University School of Medicine will host the first WashU Epigenome Day on November 21, 2016 from 10am to 5:30pm. This event is free and open to the public and includes:
Please welcome our newest addition to Becker Medical Library: Mortimer, the Disarticulated Skeleton!
A scientist from QIAGEN will be on campus to lead an Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) training workshop on Wednesday, October 19th.
The workshop will run from 12:30-3:30 in Holden Auditorium and will be hands-on, so please bring your laptop.
“At a time when care for children with cancer was only compassion, Teresa Vietti almost single-handedly developed the approach of laboratory-based studies, translational research and clinical trials. She was truly the mother of multimodality cancer treatment."
The Becker Library is pleased to announce the first 25 volumes of Washington University’s yearbook The Hatchet are now available online in the Digital Commons. The 1903 through 1928 yearbooks feature all of the Schools at Washington University, photographs of students and faculty, fraternities and sororities, sports teams, and student life.
Paola Bertucci, DPhil, Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine at Yale University and Stanley Finger, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences of Washington University will jointly give the 53rd Historia Medica lecture on Thursday, October 6, 2016.
September 25 – October 1 is Banned Books week. Hopefully you saw Susan Fowler’s earlier Becker Brief about Banned Medical Books (if not, check it out here!), but we also wanted to take the time to post about historical banned books. One of the works in our special collections that was once censored by the [Read more]