Events
Week of Events
GENES, LIFESTYLE, AND RISK FOR HEART ATTACK
GENES, LIFESTYLE, AND RISK FOR HEART ATTACK
A Video from the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: Coronary artery disease is the leading global cause of mortality. Long recognized to be heritable, recent advances have started to unravel the genetic architecture of the disease. Genetic testing could enable precision-medicine approaches by identifying subgroups of patients who are at increased risk of coronary … Read more
(DE)CONSTRUCTING D I F F E R E N C E : M E D I C A L I Z I N G B L A C K N E S S a n d t h e M A K I N G o f R A C E
(DE)CONSTRUCTING D I F F E R E N C E : M E D I C A L I Z I N G B L A C K N E S S a n d t h e M A K I N G o f R A C E
University Libraries will host this talk by Rana A. Hogarth, assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk will celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Race Deconstructed Science and the Making of Difference.” Hogarth is the author of “Medicating Blackness Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840” (University of … Read more