Educational

The UVM College of Medicine has had a role in medical education for nearly 200 years. In 1804, Dr. John Pomeroy began teaching students in his house on Battery Street in Burlington, and later that year the University of Vermont established the first medical department at a state college or university. In 1822, the College of Medicine was established as the seventh medical college in the United States. Two of its founders were Dr. Pomeroy and the pioneering medical educator Nathan Smith.
The two centuries since its founding have seen the College of Medicine go through many changes that have mirrored the changes in all areas of health care.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for marine science research, graduate training, and public service in the world.
Scripps Institution was founded in 1903 as an independent biological research laboratory, which became part of the University of California in 1912. At that time the laboratory was given the Scripps name in recognition of supporters Ellen Browning Scripps and E. W. Scripps.
Scripps staff numbers approximately 1,300, including about 90 faculty, nearly 300 other scientists, and some 200 graduate students. The institution's annual expenditures total more than $140 million.
Research at Scripps encompasses physical, chemical, biological, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans. Ongoing investigations include the topography and composition of the ocean bottom, waves and currents, and the flow and interchange of matter between seawater and the ocean bottom or the atmosphere. Scripps's research ships are used in these investigations throughout the world's oceans.

Rare Book School (RBS) Rare Book School (RBS) is an independent non-profit educational institute supporting the study of the history of books and printing and related subjects. Founded in 1983, it moved to its present home at the University of Virginia in 1992. National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" aired a story on RBS in August, 2003.

The Women of NASA resource was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology. Throughout history, women have made valuable contributions to these fields. Although these disciplines are still dominated by men, and these women are seen as exceptions, there is a growing appreciation of cultural and gender diversity in the workplace. The Women of NASA interactive project showcases outstanding women who are enjoying successful careers and demonstrates how these women balance personal and professional responsibilities.
The main components of the project are the interactive events which include live chats, forums, and webcasts and offer participants the opportunity to dialogue with the featured mentor. You will also find the profiles and archived events a rich source of information on the NASA women and their work.

The Tree of Life is a collaborative web project, produced by biologists from around the world. On more than 2600 World Wide Web pages, the Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics.

Each page contains information about one group of organisms (for example, the Coleoptera page gives information about all beetles, the Salticidae page about jumping spiders, the Cephalopoda page about squids, octopi, and related molluscs, and the Fungi page about fungi). Individual Tree of Life pages are linked one to another in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms, with the pages branching off from a group's page being about subgroups. For example, the links from the page on frogs leads one to pages on individual families of frogs, and eventually up to some individual species of frogs:

Aitchison, Leslie. A History of Metals. 2 vols. London, 1960.
Arano, Luisa Cogliati. The Medieval Health Handbook, Tacuinum sanitatis. Translated by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook. New York, 1976.
Ascherl, Rosemary. "The Technology of Chivalry in Reality and Romances." In The study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches, edited by Howell Chickering and Thomas Seiler, 263-311. Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1988.

This is the website of the Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP), an international organization. The Project aims to develop a complete philosophy or "world-view", based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies. To get started, there is an introduction with background and motivation, and an overview, summarizing the project as a whole.

The Geophiosical observatory was founded by Francesco IV d'Este in 1826 in the east-facing Tower (built in 1634) of the Ducal Palace (where is located also the Militar Accademy). It was an act that embodied an interest in astronomy in Modena dating back to 1650.
The Museum is a living example of scientific laboratory betwen 1820 and 1920. Although it is endowed with much older instrumentm of particular note are the astronomical observatiopn instruments (Fraunhofer's Telescope, 1821; G.B.Amici's telescope, 1815; Reichenbach and Ertel's meridian circle, 1815; G.B.Amici's astronomical instrument for star passages, 1826) and standards of measurement (Biot-Regnault's divide machine and comparator, 1850). The last mentioned stress the rapid adaptation to the decimal metric system.
Also worthy of note is the meteorological terrace where daily observation are still made, now by means an automatical datalogger. These, in fact, have contributed to historical records wich have led to the study of climatic variations. the old observation books are of special interest for their accuracy and their comments on politics and current event.

The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. These were monographs that were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue. These monographs were digitally scanned and facsimile editions on acid free paper were created. For more information check our About the Collection link above.

The Astronaut Connection- your guide to space, the history of its exploration, and a cross-section of the men and women who have explored it.
From the website's introduction in 1996 and throughout the its existence, the staff of The Astronaut Connection has worked to create an educational and entertaining resource for space enthusiasts, young and old, to learn about astronauts and space exploration.