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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Library & Archives

Ludmila Pollock named AAAS Fellow

4/15/2025

The CSHL Library & Archives leader was recognized for her efforts to promote humanistic understandings of modern biology and medicine. Read the story »

image of the Cold Spring Harbor Village Firehouse moving across the harbor circa 1930s

The Firehouse

12/26/2024

A lightly used Firehouse was one of the best gifts the Laboratory received in 1930. The only problem? It was on the wrong side of the harbor. Read the story »

CSHL’s oldest haunts

10/31/2024

These buildings have weathered oceans of time to be here. Pull back the veil and cross over into CSHL’s storied past for a closer look. Read the story »

photo of CSHL Senior Vice President for Advancement Charles Prizzi, Gardiner Foundation Board Chairwoman Jennifer Attonito, Gardiner Foundation Executive Director Kathryn M. Curran, CSHL Library & Archives Executive Director Ludmila Pollack, and Gardiner Foundation Trustees Lynne. C. Nowick and Robert Watkins

New Library & Archives Chair established at CSHL

9/12/2024

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation establishes the Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair of Library & Archives at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Read the story »

Penicillin: From limited wonder drug to worldwide lifesaver

1/10/2024

How Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s research on penicillin in the 1940s helped the U.S. win World War II and changed medicine forever. Read the story »

Photo of local historians in CSHL library

Where history connects

1/8/2024

A recent workshop at the CSHL Library & Archives shed light on the interwoven histories of the Laboratory, Long Island, NY, and the greater U.S. Read the story »

Inside a Nobelist’s notebooks

12/13/2023

Carol Greider’s lab writings offer a firsthand look at her Nobel Prize-winning research—work that continues today in CSHL’s Amor Vegas lab. Read the story »

Gene editing’s rocky start and groundbreaking legacy

9/13/2023

Despite early controversy, gene-editing technology has led to major breakthroughs in biological research at CSHL and beyond. Read the story »

Photo of Alfred Hershey's Waring Blender

Blending history and science

8/17/2023

One of the most famous experiments conducted at CSHL relied on the same state-of-the-art equipment found in kitchens across the U.S. in 1952—a Waring blender. Read the story »

CSHL Meetings & Courses then and now

3/15/2023

Explore the history of CSHL’s Meetings & Courses programs, along with their legacy of pioneering research and science education, from 1890 to today. Read the story »

photo of 2022 Biology of Genomes meeting participants

President’s essay: Foundations for the future

5/25/2022

Strategically designed to spark scientific exchange and inspiration, CSHL is a unique research and education environment for advancing science. Read the story »

photos of several field trip demonstrations by the DNA Learning Center

How a world on pause sparked educational innovation at CSHL

4/4/2022

See how the Laboratory adapted its education and live programming during the pandemic. Read the story »

In the Field: A Barbara McClintock–inspired novel

12/2/2021

1983 Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock continues to inspire many today. In 2021, author Rachel Pastan published a novel based on her life and legacy. Read the story »

photo of Carol Greider at UC Berkeley 1985

CSHL alumna donates her Nobel-Prize winning lab notebooks

4/13/2021

A new CSHL digital archive chronicles the Nobel Prize-winning work of Carol Greider. Read the story »

photo of participants from the 2016 HIV/AIDS conference at CSHL

Bridging lessons from the HIV/AIDS pandemic to COVID-19

3/24/2021

A new NEH-funded annotated digital archive collects the recollections and findings of HIV/AIDS researchers in a way helpful to today’s researchers. Read the story »

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