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Oral History and Archives Project for the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences 

The Directory of Scholars in the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical 
Sciences may be found at 
<http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/directory/a.html>; however, not all of 
these scholars have been interviewed.  The Oral History and Archives 
Project website <http://www.pewtrusts.com/programs/hhs/oralhistory.cfm> 
will soon have a list of the oral histories which have been done and 
are available, I am told.  In the meantime, use MELVYL 
<http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/> (the online union catalog of the 
University of California et al) or WorldCat; search the title 
words "pew oral history" to retrieve catalog records for ca. 51 
completed and available oral history interviews.

Is there any interest in having a program at next year's SAA meeting in 
Denver, on combination oral history/archives projects/programs in 
Sci/Tech/Healthcare?  Anyone want to write this up and chair it (nudge 
nudge--Suzie Long?), sponsored by STHC (in collaboration with the Oral 
History Section?)?  This Pew Scholars Program would be one interesting 
component; and I'll offer to do a segment on our John C. Liebeskind 
History of Pain Collection 
<http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/pain.htm> (an oral 
history project launched the collection and forms its core).  Any other 
suggestions?


Cheers,

Russell Johnson


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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:11:16 -0400
From: "Harry M. Marks, H-SCI-MED-TECH" 
Subject: FYI: UCLA Oral History Program and the Pew Charitable Trusts
Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and 
Technology" 

From: "Van Benschoten, William" 


UCLA AND THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS:
EXPLORING THE VOICES OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

Since 1992, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Oral History Program (http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/
special/ohp/ohpindex.htm) has worked with a grant from The Pew
Charitable Trusts (www.pewtrusts.com) to conduct the Oral History and
Archives Project for the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical
Sciences.  To date, nearly eighty interviews have been taped and
processed.  As a result of this continued partnership, one of the
largest oral history archives of twentieth-century biomedical research
in the U.S. is destined to grow ever more valuable for today's and
tomorrow's researchers.

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
(http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/pewscholar.html), now in its 14th year,
identifies outstanding midcareer basic and clinical scientists and
provides them with scholarships of $50,000 a year for four years. This
funding, which comes at a time when the Scholars are working to
establish themselves as independent investigators, enables them to
explore new lines of inquiry that are often high risk but have the
potential for tremendous returns.  Oral histories of the Pew Scholars
provide both an intellectual portrait of modern science and significant
insight into the factors that shape scientific achievement. By studying
these transcripts, researchers have the means to follow the development
of scientific inquiry and to appreciate the influences and motivations
that help to create great scientists. A brochure
(http://www.pewtrusts.com/programs/hhs/oralhistory.cfm) describing the
project in greater detail is now available.

Researchers can read these transcripts at UCLA's Department of Special
Collections, the Bancroft Library at the University of California,
Berkeley and at the Trusts' archives at the Hagley Museum and Library
in Wilmington, Delaware.

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This annoucement posted by William Van Benschoten, editor, UCLA Oral
History Program. He can be contacted at 310/825-4932 or
wvanben@library.ucla.edu.
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