Intradermal Tests with Autologous White Blood Cells in Chronic Discoid Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Control Subjects11From the Department of Dermatology of the New York University Schools of Medicine and the Skin and Cancer Unit of University Hospital, New York, N.Y.This study was supported by a grant from the United States Public Health Service (E-1361-(C5) and was done during the tenure of a special fellowship from the Allergy Foundation of America through funds provided by Burroughs Wellcome Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.Presented at the twenty-second Annual Meeting of The Society for Investigative Dermatology, Inc., New York, N.Y. June 29, 1961.

This paper seeks to combine studies of émigré scientists, Cold War American science, and cultural histories of mathematical communities by analyzing Richard Courant’s participation in the National Academy of Sciences interacademy exchange program with the Soviet Union in the 1960s. Following his dismissal by the Nazi government from his post as Director of the Göttingen Mathematics Institute in 1933, Courant spent a year at the University of Cambridge, and then immigrated to the United States where he developed the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Courant’s participation with the National Academy of Sciences interacademy exchange program at the end of his career highlights his ideologies about the mathematics discipline, the international mathematics community, and the political role mathematicians could play in contributing to international peace through scientific diplomacy. Courant’s Cold War scientific identity emerges from his activities as an émigré mathematician, institution builder, and international “ambassador.”

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Collections, Compilations, and Convolutes of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in North America before ca. 1900

Fragmentology ◽

10.24446/dlll ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 73-139

Author(s):

Scott Gwara

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

North America ◽

The United States ◽

New York University ◽

Historical Society ◽

Cornell University ◽

Private Collections ◽

Public Exhibition

Using evidence drawn from S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, American auction records, private library catalogues, public exhibition catalogues, and manuscript fragments surviving in American institutional libraries, this article documents nineteenth-century collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments in North America before ca. 1900. Surprisingly few fragments can be identified, and most of the private collections have disappeared. The manuscript constituents are found in multiple private libraries, two universities (New York University and Cornell University), and one Learned Society (Massachusetts Historical Society). The fragment collections reflect the collecting genres documented in England in the same period, including albums of discrete fragments, grangerized books, and individual miniatures or “cuttings” (sometimes framed). A distinction is drawn between undecorated text fragments and illuminated ones, explained by aesthetic and scholarly collecting motivations. An interest in text fragments, often from binding waste, can be documented from the 1880s.

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The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States Claudia Sadowski-Smith. New York University Press, 2018.

The Journal of American Culture ◽

10.1111/jacc.12950 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 334-337

Author(s):

Mel van Elteren

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

The United States ◽

New York University ◽

New Immigrant

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