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Up until October 2023, the Surgical Simulation Lab on the lower level of the Eccles Health Sciences Library occupied a small corner of the Center for Medical Innovation. After CMI relocated downtown, Nurse Educator, Karen Porter, was granted full occupancy of the lab–2,000 square feet. In this space, Karen simulates chest tube placements and tracheostomies […]
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Sustainability efforts on the U’s health sciences campus are constant thanks to the passion of dedicated students, staff, and faculty, who care about our health system’s impact on the environment and patient health. Two campus groups involved in the work will be joining us to discuss the outlook of medical student curriculum and hospital & […]
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Since joining the Eccles Health Sciences Library in 2016, Donna Baluchi has consistently gone above and beyond in their work. They have led efforts to improve library services and programming, with a commitment to all patrons. Donna began at EHSL as a Public Services Library Aide. Soon they moved into the role of Public Services […]
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World – Steven Johnson | Nonfiction In this historical nonfiction book, Steven Johnson tells the terrifying story of the cholera epidemic of London in 1854. Two unlikely heroes, anesthetist Doctor John Snow and Reverend Henry […]
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Black Hole – Charles Burns | Graphic Novel A graphic novel set in 1970’s suburban Seattle about a plague that causes strange mutations in teenagers. They call it “the Bug.” This installment is the first of 12. It blends different themes and genres such as coming-of-age, mystery, horror, and sci-fi. This addition to the collection […]
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Welcome and welcome back to another stimulating semester at the University of Utah! Please join us for Open House on Thursday, September 26. Over the course of the last year, the Eccles Health Sciences Library has undergone many changes with our Seismic Retrofit. We re-opened the Reading Room in the Spring, we built new bookshelves, […]
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Brandon Patterson, Technology Engagement Librarian at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, has been named a Martha Bradley Evans Teachings Fellow. Each year, fellows’ projects focus on critical issues in twenty-first century, post-pandemic higher education to maintain the high instructional quality at the U. In 2024-25, Brandon and three other fellows will focus on innovative […]
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PubMed Full-Text Access The Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah is spearheading an initiative to enable Utah-licensed physicians to retrieve full-text articles from PubMed without encountering a publisher paywall. Read on to learn more about this pilot program, how it can benefit you, and how you can participate. Background Medical knowledge has […]
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Audrey Pozernick has joined the Eccles Health Sciences Library as a Library Aide. Audrey previously worked at the Marriott Library Knowledge Commons desk. She recently finished a fellowship with the ACLU, working on prisoner health-care and activism, and also a project on banned books in Utah. She holds a B.S. in Philosophy with a minor […]
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Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Jahneman | Psychology, Nonfiction A bestseller in 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow explores the two systems of the mind and how they determine the ways we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive and emotional, while System 2 is slow, deliberate, and logical. Kahneman engages readers in a lively conversation […]
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