Becoming A Geologist: Florence Bascom and Johns Hopkins, 1888-1895

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The University

Florence Bascom (1862-1945) was a petrologist and field geologist at Bryn Mawr College who provided a basic description and interpretation of major areas of Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. This paper is the second of a two-part study that explores the question of how Bascom became a geologist. The first part dealt with Bascom's early history in Wisconsin, from the time she went to Madison at the age of 12 to her completion of a Master of Science degree in Microscopic Lithology under Roland D. Irving (1847-1888) at the University Of Wisconsin in 1887.This second part of the study begins with Bascom's experience teaching at Rockford Seminary in Illinois, where she was exposed to Mary E. Holmes (1850-1906). who had obtained a doctorate in paleontology from the University of Michigan. It then details the extension of Bascom's education from a limited laboratory-based experience to involvement in field work with George Huntington Williams (1856-1894) at Johns Hopkins University in the years 1891-1893. Johns Hopkins did not officially admit women to graduate study then. Nevertheless, on the basis of combined field and laboratory research in the Monterey district of Pennsylvania, Bascom received the first doctorate granted to a woman at the University. She was then hired as an Assistant in Geology by Edward Orton (1829-1899), at Ohio State University, a highly unusual appointment at that time. In addition to teaching, she was engaged in field and laboratory work at Ohio State until 1895, when she was hired by Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935) at Bryn Mawr.

Becoming A Geologist: Florence Bascom In Wisconsin, 1874-1887

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Women's Education ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Bryn Mawr College ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
The University

Florence Bascom (1862-1945) was a petrologist and field geologist at Bryn Mawr College who provided a basic description and interpretation of major areas of Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. This paper is the first of a two-part study that explores the question of how Bascom became a geologist. The initial phase of this process took place in Wisconsin, to which she moved at the age of twelve when her father became president of the University at Madison. Both of her parents supported women's education, rights, and suffrage.Bascom graduated from the coeducational university in 1882 and, in a series of fits and starts in which scientific study alternated with social pleasures and non-scientific pursuits, she began to take a serious interest in geology. In 1883-84 she studied under two well known geologists there, Roland D. Irving and his student Charles R. Van Hise, obtaining a B.S. degree. Although she did not participate in field work, she conducted laboratory research on the gabbros of Lake Superior using the petrographic microscope and thin sections. She obtained a Master's degree from the University in 1887 on the basis of this investigation.

Two Remarkable Women Geologists of the 1920s: Emily Hahn (1905-1997) and Katharine Fowler (1902-1997)

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dott
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
New England ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Gender Barriers ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University

Emily Hahn and Katharine Fowler challenged gender barriers decades ahead of modern feminism, and, together with other pioneering women geologists, they provide inspiration for all. They met at the University of Wisconsin in 1925. Hahn had chosen engineering because a professor said women can not be engineers. Rejecting an office-only mining career, she then found her ultimate calling as writer and world traveler, spending two years in the Belgian Congo (1931-33) and eight in China (1935-43). During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, she had a daughter by a British officer, whom she married in 1945. Fowler came from Bryn Mawr College to Wisconsin to compete in a men's world. They forced acceptance as the first women to take a mining geology field trip and a topographic mapping field course. Later, in disguise, Fowler gained admission to a Black Hills mine and then did Ph.D. field work alone in Wyoming. After an African Geological Congress, she worked in the Sierra Leone bush (1931-33) and then began teaching at Wellesley College (1935). She attended a 1937 Soviet Union Geological Congress, taking harrowing field trips in the Caucusus Mountains and Siberia. From 1938, she and her new husband, Harvard geologist Marland Billings, collaborated in important New England research.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-183
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Ohio State University ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University ◽  
Vanderbilt University ◽  
Michigan Medical

Postgraduate Courses—AAP The first two of a series of postgraduate courses being sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics will be held at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2, 3, 4, and 5, 1959; and at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, on March 17, 18, and 19, 1959. Tuition for these courses is $50 and $40, respectively, for Academy members. Fees for nonmembers will be $70 and $60, respectively. These courses will both be organized so that each day will be devoted to papers and discussions on a different pediatric problem. At the University of Michigan, Dr. James Wilson and the pediatric staff will be hosts, as well as part of the faculty for the course. Other speakers will include members of other departments and the guest speakers, Dr. Warren Wheeler, Professor of Pediatrics and Bacteriology, Ohio State University Medical School, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, Director, Department of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases, Cleveland City Hospital.

Other Methods for Carbocyclic Construction: The Porco Synthesis of (-)-Hyperibone K

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglass F. Taber
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Cyclization ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Colorado State University ◽  
Intramolecular Alkylation ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Tokyo Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

Varinder K. Aggarwal of the University of Bristol described (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6673) the conversion of the Sharpless-derived epoxide 1 into the cyclopropane 2. Christopher D. Bray of Queen Mary University of London established (Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 5867) that the related conversion of 3 to 5 proceeded with high diastereocontrol. Javier Read de Alaniz of the University of California, Santa Barbara, extended (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9484) the Piancatelli rearrangement of a furyl carbinol 6 to allow inclusion of an amine 7, to give 8. Issa Yavari of Tarbiat Modares University described (Synlett 2010, 2293) the dimerization of 9 with an amine to give 10. Jeremy E. Wulff of the University of Victoria condensed (J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 6312) the dienone 11 with the commercial butadiene sulfone 12 to give the highly substituted cyclopentane 13. Robert M. Williams of Colorado State University showed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 6557) that the condensation of 14 with formaldehyde delivered the cyclopentanone 15 with high diastereocontrol. D. Srinivasa Reddy of Advinus Therapeutics devised (Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 5291) conditions for the tandem conjugate addition/intramolecular alkylation conversion of 16 to 17. Marie E. Krafft of Florida State University reported (Synlett 2010, 2583) a related intramolecular alkylation protocol. Takao Ikariya of the Tokyo Institute of Technology effected (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 11414) the enantioselective Ru-mediated hydrogenation of bicyclic imides such as 18. This transformation worked equally well for three-, four-, five-, six-, and seven-membered rings. Stefan France of the Georgia Institute of Technology developed (Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 5684) a catalytic protocol for the homo-Nazarov rearrangement of the doubly activated cyclopropane 20 to the cyclohexanone 21. Richard P. Hsung of the University of Wisconsin effected (Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 5768) the highly diastereoselective rearrangement of the triene 22 to the cyclohexadiene 23. Strategies for polycyclic construction are also important. Sylvain Canesi of the Université de Québec devised (Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4368) the oxidative cyclization of 24 to 25.

C–O Ring Formation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan H. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Colorado State University ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Chiral Phosphoric Acid ◽  
National University ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

The enantioselective bromocyclization of dicarbonyl 1 to form dihydrofuran 3 using thiocarbamate catalyst 2 was developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 8597) by Ying-Yeung Yeung at the National University of Singapore. Access to dihydrofuran 5 from the cyclic boronic acid 4 and salicylaldehyde via a morpholine-mediated Petasis borono-Mannich reaction was reported (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 5944) by Xian-Jin Yang at East China University of Science and Technology and Jun Yang at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. Chiral phosphoric acid 7 was shown (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13593) by Jianwei Sun at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to catalyze the enantioselective acetalization of diol 6 to form tetrahydrofuran 8 with high stereoselectivity. Jan Deska at the University of Cologne reported (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 5998) the conversion of glutarate ether 9 to enantiopure tetrahy­drofuranone 10 by way of an enzymatic desymmetrization/oxonium ylide rearrange­ment sequence. Perali Ramu Sridhar at the University of Hyderabad demonstrated (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 4474) the ring-contraction of spirocyclopropane tetrahydropyran 11 to produce tetrahydrofuran 12. Michael A. Kerr at the University of Western Ontario reported (Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 4838) that cyclopropane hemimalonate 13 underwent conver­sion to vinylbutanolide 14 in the presence of LiCl and Me₃N•HCl under microwave irradiation. Eric M. Ferreira at Colorado State University developed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 17266) the platinum-catalyzed bisheterocyclization of alkyne diol 15 to fur­nish the bisheterocycle 16. Chiral sulfur ylides such as 17, which can be synthesized easily and cheaply, were shown (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 11951) by Eoghan M. McGarrigle at the University of Bristol and University College Dublin and Varinder K. Aggarwal at the University of Bristol to stereoselectively epoxidize a variety of alde­hydes, as exemplified by 18. The amine 20-catalyzed tandem heteroconjugate addition/Michael reaction of quinol 19 and cinnamaldehyde to produce bicycle 21 with very high ee was reported (Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 2828) by Jeffrey S. Johnson at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Quinol ether 22 underwent facile photorearrangement–cycloaddition to 23 under irradiation, as reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 17978) by John A. Porco, Jr. at Boston University and Corey R. J. Stephenson, now at the University of Michigan.

Introduction to Learning Management Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 1280-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane D. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
State University ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The University

Formal university-based distance education has been around for over 100 years. For example, Cornell University established the Correspondence University in 1882, and Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in New York was awarding degrees via correspondence courses in 1883 (Nasseh, 1997). Soon many other educational institutions, including the University of Chicago, Penn State University, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University were offering these non-traditional learning options for their students. With the entry of the personal computer into homes and workplaces in the 1980s, learning started to become more technologydriven. However, it was not until the 1990s, with the proliferation of the World Wide Web, that the concept of technology-enhanced education began to change drastically.

News Notes

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University

A Geometry Teaching Institute, sponsored by The School of Education with the cooperation of the Department of Mathematics was hold at the University of Michigan on Saturday, January 13, 1951. An audience and panel discussion included brief reports from Josephine Montague of Central Michigan College of Education, Dorothy Noyes of Ann Arbor High School, Clara. Mueller of Cass Technical Iligh School in Detroit, Howard F. Beatty of Saginaw High School and Harold Fawcett of Ohio State University. Discussion and laboratory groups met in the morning and afternoon and were led by Russell Schneider of Lansing Eastern High School, Donald Marshall of Dearborn High School, Norman Anning of the University of Michigan, Gertrude Pratt of Central Michigan College of Education, Kenneth Leisenring of the University of Michigan and Lauren Woodby of the University High School. The principal address was delivered in the afternoon by Professor Fawcett and was entitled “The Interplay of Induction and Deduction in the Teaching of Geometry.”

scholarly journals Robert Williams Wood, 1868-1955

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 326-345 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Physical Optics ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Crime Detection ◽  
The University ◽  
Experimental Researches ◽  
Scientific Achievements

When Professor R. W. Wood died on 11 August 1955 he was to the younger generation of physicists a colourful legend, a representative of the past. He was, however, by no means forgotten, as a lesser man might have been at the age of 87. Many stories were still circulating about him. When I recently paid a visit to the University of Wisconsin which Wood had left in 1901, his exploits were being discussed there as if they had just happened, instead of more than half a century before. His solid scientific achievements are now a matter of record. His active mind refused to accept retirement and he visited his old room in the Physical Laboratory at The Johns Hopkins University regularly until nearly the end, even though the infirmities of old age had gradually made themselves felt. He never gave up his curiosity about things and was still actively engaged in the revision of his book on Physical optics . Death came to him peacefully: he passed away during his sleep without any severe illness. Wood’s active period of scientific productivity coincided with the rise of atomic physics and he made important contributions toward the increasing knowledge of the structure of the atom, chiefly through his experimental researches in physical optics. He was, however, far from one-sided and penetrated into many fields. He went wherever his insatiable curiosity led him, whether this was into different branches of physics or into all sorts of other activities such as engineering, art, crime detection, spiritualism, psychology, archaeology and many others

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