MBLWHOI Library

While it's winter in Woods Hole, the MBLWHOI Library says it’s always warm and sunny here in WOODS HOLE because of 2 landmark decades of cooperation with Arizona State University’s Center for Biology and Society through support of the landmark History and Philosophy of Science Program.

For twenty five years, under the leadership of one of the MBL Center for Library and Informatics Adjunct Scientists, ASU Professor Jane Maienschien, this collaboration has included helping to develop and support the Encyclopedia of the Embryo:
http://embryo.asu.edu/
This online resource draws upon MBL’s great history for the past almost century of teaching the landmark summer Embryology course as part of its internationally reknown summer education program. For twenty five years ASU has held its annual History and Philosophy of Science seminar with the MBLWHOI Library, augmenting lecture and discussion with investigative time in the MBL Rare Books Room and Archives as well as the MBLWHOI Library Stacks.

Last September ASU and MBL held the History of Biogerontology Workshop at ASU in Tucson. This workshop explored the history of gerontology by examining its multivalent connections to problems in twentieth-century molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. The Marine Biological Laboratory and Arizona State University, by organizing a specialized workshop that gathers together a panel of pioneering historians of biogerontology with leading experts in the history and philosophy of science, aim to lay the foundation to rapidly advance this important field of research.
http://cbs.asu.edu/news_events/news/2011/hbg.php

IN MAY 2012, The MBL-ASU HISTORY OF BIOLOGY SEMINAR will hold its 25th annual course. The MBL-ASU History of Biology Seminar in Woods Hole is offered in collaboration with and is funded by Arizona State University with additional funding from the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.

This year’s ASU-MBL seminar “VISUALIZING BIOLOGY” will explore the history of visualization in biology from the late 19th to early 21st centuries. The seminar will be organized around different visual scales beginning with microscopy and working up to macroscopic perspectives offered by satellite imaging and remote sensing. We will consider both practices of visualization and the representations they produce from historical, philosophical, and scientific perspectives.
FOR THE COURSE Website & Application Information:
http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/history_biology.html