Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of libraries, gave a lecture titled “Google, Libraries, and Humanities Research: The Emerging Effects of Industrial Scale Digitization” at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Nov. 12. …
Sandor J. Kovacs, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Biophysics Laboratory, gave the Sjostrand lecture titled “What you always wanted to know about diastolic function, but were afraid to ask!” Nov. 29 at the 200th anniversary of the Swedish Society of Medicine in Stockholm. In addition, he was awarded the Medal of the Swedish Society of Medicine by Hakan Arheden, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Society for Clinical Physiology. …
Andrew Rouner, Digital Library director, and Cassandra Stokes, digital projects librarian, delivered a poster presentation “The Reclamation of Dred Scott” at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science Oct. 21-22. The colloquium brings together researchers in the humanities and computer sciences to discuss current trends in digital scholarship and to explore opportunities for future research. Rouner and Stokes discussed lessons learned from the Dred Scott Case Collection, the first significant digital library project undertaken by Washington University Libraries.