Archive for May, 2007
More summertime hobbies: guitar
I’m starting to practice more now that I don’t have papers to grade. The last lesson was also an excuse to try out my new Marantz PMD660 portable digital recorder, which I bought to record interviews and maybe do podcasts (although I’m not really inclined to do this for students who are too lazy to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I can knit lace!
Now that grades are done, I can get back to knitting. I learned to do this little project at the Ewephoric Knitters Weekend at Marji’s Yarncraft in Granby, CT
Once I go the hang of it, the pattern was pretty easy. Just a matter of counting and paying attention – -so not good for [...]
My first submission to Grants.gov
Instead of grading papers and exams, I’ve spent the past few days assembling my first online submission for an NLM Grant for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health
Let me first start out by stating that after college, I worked for the medical research office at the VA Medical Center in White River Jct., Vermont.
This was [...]
Wikipedia and Honors Program
Apparently, there was a heated discussion about banning Wikipedia at last week’s meeting of the CCSU Honors Program
Fortunately, someone convinced our director not to follow the Middlebury College history department’s stand against Wikipedia.
Sure, I’m just as annoyed as anyone when students use Wikipedia entries as their major (or worse their only) source for papers — [...]
My book is in the catalogue!!!
Well, my book, Student Bodies, is now being listed in the Fall 2007 University of Michigan Press catalogue. So, it’s really going to come out. What a relief!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HNN News article on Virginia Tech
Last week, I published an op ed piece on the Virigina Tech shootings, “Mental Health is Everyone’s Business.”
We had an interesting discussion in my Historical methods class this afternoon about prejudice against the mentally ill. One of my students has Asperger’s syndrome and said that after Columbine he was taken out of school for [...]
AAHM Annual Meeting: Women’s Breakfast
This past weekend I attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Montreal, Quebec, where I presided over the women’s breakfast and gave a session on using digital history for history of medicine and health sciences.
The women’s breakfast had the largest turnout ever — at least eighty people showed [...]
Hospital Rock
My dog, Ruthie and I exploring the site of an 18th century smallpox isolation hospital in Farmington, Connecticut. For more information about Hospital Rock, see this article from Hog River Journal.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Welcome
Welcome to my blog. I am a “digital history hack” (not to be confused with Bill Turkel’s website), so please be patient as I learn how to do this!
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