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Dear STHC Section Members,
It has been an active year for the Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) Section. This year we transitioned from a roundtable to a section, and we initiated our Unsung Heroes in the history of STEM and health sciences project. We are looking forward to our meeting on July 27.
STHC became an SAA section this past year, as did all SAA roundtables, and the transition has gone smoothly. There are no changes to our bylaws or to the way in which STHC has conducted its business. The website is being updated to change all of the instances of “roundtable” to “section.”
We are really excited about our Unsung Heroes project and think we are off to a good start. Read more about the project on pages 3-4 of this newsletter.
Mark your calendar for the STHC meeting, held during SAA’s Annual Meeting: July 27 (Thurs.) 2:00pm - 3:15pm. Check the SAA program/website/app for room information.
The program portion of our meeting will feature five lightning talks about collecting STEM and health care holdings and using them for classes and cross-disciplinary research. While these collections are often seen as different from those focusing on the humanities, the speakers will talk about how such collections are more alike than meets the eye.
We want to ensure that the STHC Section reflects the interests of its member, so we welcome your input for agenda items that you would like to see addressed at the meeting. Please feel free to contact us:
Todd Kosmerick
North Carolina State University
tjkosmer@ncsu.edu
919.513.3673
Polina Ilieva
University of California, San Francisco
polina.ilieva@ucsf.edu
415.476.1024
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The Science, Technology, and Health Care Section (STHC) annual meeting will be held in room Room Oregon BR 201 of the Oregon Convention Center (Portland, Ore.). The meeting will include discussion of ongoing projects, such as the MHL/AAHM initiatives and the Unsung Heroes of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Health Care. A program will also feature lightning talks about collecting STEM and health care holdings and using them for classes and cross-disciplinary research. While these collections are often seen as different from those focusing on the humanities, the speakers will talk about how such collections are more alike than meets the eye.
Topics covered in the lightning talks will include an interdisciplinary intersection between zoological health collections and faculty in landscape architecture, a psychiatrist's archive documenting alternative sexualities in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, and the collection of records from the dispersed offices of the University of California (UC) Cooperative Extension and the UC Natural Reserve System. The individual presentations are:
Presenter: Eli Brown, North Carolina State University Libraries
Topic: What do Zoological Health, Landscape Architecture, and Nixon's Foreign Policy have in Common for Teaching and Outreach?
Presenter: Robert Franklin, Washington State University Tri-Cities
Topic: Boron but not Boring: Engaging Humanities and STEM Students with the Legacy of Nuclear Materials Production and Waste
Presenter: Emily Lin, University of California-Merced Library
Topic: Preserving Agricultural and Ecological Sciences: Inventing archives for dispersed research collections in California
Presenter: Stephen E. Novak, Columbia University Medical Center
Topic: The Ethel S. Person Papers: A Window into Alternative Sexual Behaviors in 1960-1970s America
Presenter: Ludmila (Mila) Pollock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives, NY
Topic: Biology at the Crossroads: Convening the Pioneers and Contributors of Influential Fields in the Life Sciences to Capture their History
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