Predicting pandemics: past disease outbreaks and what they teach us about preparing for the next pandemic
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A platform of her own: an examination of feminist attempts to reclaim pregnancy from medicalized gynecology
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Resilience rooted in the earth: stories of black women's survival
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Leveraging the clinical microsystem to offset the limitations of breast cancer screening in the united states
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Is in vitro meat an environmentally, technologically, fiscally, and socially realistic agricultural alternative in the united states?
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Drugs, gender, and profit: the continued absence of male contraceptive methods 60 years beyond the pill
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Just a buzzword or the future of drug information: can blockchain help reduce the burden of unnecessary opioid prescriptions?
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'Female Viagra' and the intersection of medicine, gender, and desire: reinforcing misconceptions of female sexuality in the sexopharmaceutical era
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Friends in high places: competing ideologies at an independent Quaker school
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Towards a queer-Jewish future: an exploration of the Jewish mother-queer daughter relationship and the liberatory potential of queerness
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Finding Aids
The Archives & Special Collections Library is part of the Vassar College Libraries system. It holds the rare book, manuscript, and archival collections of the college. It collects, preserves, and makes available rare and unique collections, and also engages in teaching and outreach activities. This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives.
Herbarium
The Vassar College herbarium holds over 8,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and algae. Holdings are primarily from northeastern North America, and include collections made by several notable 19th century botanists. To learn more about this project visit the website here.
Vassar Scholarship
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