Memorial Day 2020
“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought…
Renee Sharrock
Heritage Unit News: Publications
From Historical Collections & Archives: One of the smallest publication collections housed in the Historical Collections and Archives is The Medical Collegian. There are only six issues in the record group RG19.16: Medical Collegian and very little is known about…
Heritage Unit News: University Record Groups
From Special Collections & Institutional Archives: Our institutional archives at Reese Library hold records related to the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Within that collection (IA.01.001.002) are papers written for the classes of prolific historian Dr. Edward…
Heritage Unit News: Photographs
Recently more photographs were added to the Historical Images of the Health Sciences Campus collection in Scholarly Commons, Augusta University’s institutional repository. It is often thought-provoking when looking at photographs from the past, including photographs of buildings that are no…
Heritage Unit News: Rare Books
From the Historical Collections and Archives: Dr. Leslie Wilkes, MCG Class of 1965, and his wife have gifted the Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library several books, a few artifacts, and an exhibit case that houses their gift of William Hunter’s…
Heritage Unit News: Publications
From the Historical Collections & Archives (HCA): If you were an employee or student on the Augusta University Health Sciences Campus from 1980 to 2011, you most likely read the Beeper at least once during your time here. The Beeper was the…
Laughing Gas, Not a Laughing Matter: A History of Anesthesia
Soma Mukhopadhyay, PhD, will present Laughing Gas, Not a Laughing Matter: A History of Anesthesia on Thursday, November 14, 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Greenblatt Library’s Historical Collections and Archives room. Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a lecturer with the Department of Biological Sciences…
Heritage Unit News: Photographs
From the Historical Collections & Archives: Fifty-seven years ago, during the first week of October 1962, the first electronic computer was installed on the Health Sciences Campus. In an article in the December 1962 Foundation and Alumni News, the IMB 1620 was…
Heritage Unit News: Rare Books
A small book housed in the Faculty Author Collection at Greenblatt Library represents one example of one man’s intellectual curiosity and his desire to instruct and share his knowledge with others. This book is Interesting Chemical Exercises in Qualitative Analysis…
Exhibit Honoring Lois Taylor Ellison, M.D.
An exhibit honoring the life of Lois Taylor Ellison, M.D. is on display in the Greenblatt Library. Dr. Ellison passed away in April but she was one of the longest-serving faculty members in the history of Augusta University. Her affiliation…