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CSHL opens archives for Love Data Week 2026

Nick Wurm — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:30:23 +0000

Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life, a proto-evolutionary medical text by Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin." data-description="" />��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Library & Archives offer a wealth of invaluable resources documenting the history of biology and medical research. For international Love Data Week, which ran from February 9-13, the CSHL Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology invited members of the public and the Lab community to view artifacts, books,...

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CSHL mourns the loss of David Baltimore

Nick Wurm — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:30:55 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) mourns the passing of Nobel laureate and revolutionary molecular biologist David Baltimore. In 1959, Baltimore became the first member of CSHL’s newly launched Undergraduate Research Program (URP). That summer, he worked with then-Assistant CSHL Director Arthur Chovnick on a project studying the “Physiological genetics of Drosophila and Neurospora.” But it...

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Center for Humanities hosts author Marc Torres

Nick Wurm — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:30:20 +0000

On August 20, the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology hosted an author talk with Marc Torres, who discussed his latest book, Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance. From 1910 to 1939, the Carnegie Institute of Washington’s Station for Experimental Evolution, a predecessor of...

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Pancakes may never taste this good again

Communications Department — Thu, 15 May 2025 11:30:25 +0000

round seven years ago, I was a super eager undergraduate student studying biochemistry and starting my very first research internship at the Spanish Center for Biotechnology. I did not know much about how cancer worked, how it arises, or what makes it grow. All I knew was that I wanted to make an impact. I...

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Lessons of the past, leaders of tomorrow

Emma Courtney — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:30:31 +0000

BRCA1, the first gene associated with hereditary breast cancer." data-description="" />From March 26–29, 2025, ��ϳԹ��Դ’s Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology, in collaboration with the CSHL Meetings & Courses Program, hosted Cancer Genetics: History & Consequences. The extraordinary international gathering brought together the field’s pioneers with today’s leading innovators and future trailblazers. Over four days, attendees were immersed in a...

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Cancer Genetics: History & Consequences

Communications Department — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:30:04 +0000

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Ludmila Pollock named AAAS Fellow

Nick Wurm — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:00:52 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Ludmila Pollock has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is recognized for her efforts to promote the history and philosophy of science. Pollock has been head of the CSHL Library & Archives since 1999. In 2008, she founded CSHL’s History...

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‘Nuts & Bolts’ and ‘Midnight Fair’

Nick Wurm — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:30:37 +0000

walk down ��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL’s) Bungtown Road will take you past historic buildings, beautiful flowers and trees, a volleyball court, and more. About a quarter of the way down the old whaling road, you’ll encounter two of the more interesting pieces in CSHL’s impressive art collection. Nestled between Hooper House and Jones Laboratory...

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Lifesaving life science with Katalin Karikó

Lisa Cruz — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:30:06 +0000

City of Science event presented in partnership between the CUNY Graduate Center and ��ϳԹ��Դ Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology with support from the BGI Nobel Laureates Archives Program. Image: Wild Sound Photography" data-description="" />She helped save millions of lives. So, how does it feel? With humility and wit, 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó shared insights on her life’s work during a free public event at the CUNY Graduate Center on November 15. CUNY’s recital hall was filled to capacity as guests took their seats for an up-close and...

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Empowering Insights: The science behind health

Communications Department — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:30:22 +0000

The opportunity to turn curiosity into discoveries that impact the human condition is at the core of ��ϳԹ��Դ’s mission. Our scientists are empowered to ask big questions and search for solutions to biology’s most challenging problems. Doing that requires interdisciplinary study, and the Laboratory’s brain-body physiology program encourages our scientists to confront...

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New Library & Archives Chair established at CSHL

Communications Department — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:30:34 +0000

The Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation has made a $3 million commitment to ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), establishing an endowment to name the Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair of Library & Archives. This endowment will support CSHL’s Library & Archives and the Center for Humanities’ broad educational programs in perpetuity. This gift will ensure that...

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Science Meets Art at CSHL

Communications Department — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:00:59 +0000

In a way, viewing cells under a microscope is a lot like looking at a painting. At first glance, you see the shapes, patterns, and colors. When you zoom in, you start to see all of the little details like nuclei and ribosomes, or in the context of painting, brush strokes and blends. Gaze at...

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Where history connects

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:30:58 +0000

During World War II, many displaced scientists were forced to search for a new life. One particular biologist, Dr. Helene Meyer-Unger, ended up in New York City. When she learned about the pioneering research happening at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), she sent a letter to the lab hoping for a chance to continue doing...

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Bridging lessons from the HIV/AIDS pandemic to COVID-19

Luis Sandoval — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:00:10 +0000

The HIV/AIDS epidemic offers lessons for today’s COVID-19 pandemic. The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology captured some of those lessons in a 2016 CSHL conference, “HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future.” In 2021, they developed a new kind of annotated digital archive that allows readers to easily...

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CSHL Center for Humanities wins NEH Grant

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:00:42 +0000

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology a CARES Act Grant. The grant will fund an extensive oral history initiative documenting biomedical history and pandemic response since 1890. The project, entitled “Oral Histories of Biology, Medicine, and Pandemic Response”...

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