EHSL History of Medicine Students
Since 2023, the Eccles Health Sciences Library has employed 3 University of Utah Department of History students to assist Elaine Thornton, Assistant Director for the History of Health Sciences, with […]
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Women’s History Series: Dr. Marian Bishop, School of Medicine
Dr. Marian Bishop, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., was born in 1927 in Springfield, Missouri to Francis Marion and Hattie May Bishop. Dr. Bishop was studious; after receiving a bachelor’s degree from Drury […]
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Women’s History Series: Early Female Student Organizations, College of Pharmacy
Early pharmacy education at the University of Utah experienced considerable growing pains. Although 1917 saw the advent of the Department of Pharmacy, situated within the College of Medicine, the department […]
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Women’s History Series: Priscilla Mayden, Eccles Health Sciences Library
Priscilla was born Priscilla Maltby in 1918 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Her parents ran the Maltby business school, where she spent one year after graduating from high school and before she […]
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Women’s History Series: Dr. Sumiko Fujiki, College of Nursing
In the early 1900’s, Jusaburo and Shigeyo Nishimura Fujiki immigrated from Japan to Devil’s Slide, Utah, and in 1926, they gave birth to a girl, Sumiko, who would later make […]
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