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With sponsorship and support from Lyman Briggs College, History, and MSU Library’s Special Collection, Professor Georgina Montgomery has established the Women in Science Digital Collection.  For more, see: http://womeninscience.history.msu.edu/ or visit the History Department’s Science, Technology and Medicine page.

From the Business Daily section: Business Daily is in the driving seat today. It’s all about cars. Steve Evans speaks to the historian Cotten Seiler of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania who wrote “Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America” to explain cars… Continue Reading Professor Siegelbaum on BBC World Service Podcast

Newest member to the department, Dr. Mark Waddell, was on The Rachel Maddow Show August 17 . Check him – and some of his research – out at the link! http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/harry-potter-and-the-academicians-exhibit/17y28gwu2

Gordon Stewart was interviewed by the BBC as part of their program “Tibet on the Banks of the Clyde.”  The broadcast was on August 19.  To listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t808h

Professor Javier Pescador is curating  an exhibition of photographs at the Kresge.  Featured are photos of Mexican people and landscapes by prominent artists from the last century: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Paul Strand, Flor Garduño, Aaron Siskind, Graciela Iturbide and Edward Henry Weston. There is a… Continue Reading Luces en Alba Photography Exhibit at the Kresge Art Museum