April 21, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTHRESHOLD ECOLOGIES: On Earth (and on Earth Day) A day turns into a week into a month, and more. Over the past year, our sense of time has extended into ongoing uncertainty from a global pandemic. For those grounded close to home, if we are lucky, our environments have become circumscribed by thresholds and windows, actual and virtual,… read more
June 17, 2015, Filed Under: Conservation, Research + TeachingPreserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers With the generous support of a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics, the Ransom Center has created a new online finding aid for the papers of English physicist Owen W. Richardson (1879–1959). The papers were originally processed during the 1960s and described on more than 8,000 catalog… read more
February 28, 2012, Filed Under: Cataloging, Research + TeachingNewly cataloged collection of science materials now open for research A collection of science materials from the family of Sir John F. W. Herschel (1792–1871) is now open for research after a grant enabled staffers to rehouse the collection and to create an online inventory. The Herschel family papers, acquired in 1960 with subsequent smaller accessions of additional materials, largely… read more
