Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News August 2025 Archive

This is the first post in a three-part series about Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. (1908-2005), professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine from 1947 to 1967. To spotlight the addition to and reprocessing of the Eugene A. Stead Jr. Papers, this post introduces Stead, highlighting his accomplishments and career, and honors his role in beginning the physician assistant program at Duke University, the first in the nation, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.  

The second post delves into Stead’s family life. In 2020, the Archives received an addition from the Physician Assistant Historical Society of…

If you are a NIH-funded researcher working with human participant data and are seeking a controlled-access repository to comply with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy, consider Vivli as a data repository option.

Vivli is a secure, online platform designed for sharing anonymized, individual participant-level data from clinical trials as well as data from observational studies. The platform includes a controlled access data repository, search engine, and secure research environment.

As one of seven generalist repositories in the NIH Generalist…

The Library Welcome Party is a chance for new and returning students, faculty, residents, fellows, and staff to come to the Medical Center Library for a little fun, education, and LocoPops. This year, we are hosting a DJ, educational stations about library resources, maker stations (zine making, button making), and a couple of wellness activities. Join library staff, as well as representatives from LeWell for some fun at this annual event!

Date: September 8th, 2025  
Time: 12pm -2pm  
Location: Medical Center Library (Seeley G. Mudd Building, 10 Searle Drive)

Categories: Events & Classes

If you’ve spent any time in our reading room on the 1st level of the Medical Center Library, you might have noticed the striking and colorful ribbon illustrations on the walls in between the bookshelves! But you might not know the importance of these images to the history of protein science and scientific visualization! They are the influential work of Duke scientists Jane and Dave Richardson.

The ribbon diagrams or “Richardson diagrams” are now ubiquitous in depiction of proteins today, but they were first hand-drawn by Jane Richardson. She is widely recognized for the creation of this new visual language, first published in “Advances in Protein Chemistry” in 1981. The drawings stemmed from the realization that a general classification scheme could be developed…