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The Stained Glass Windows of Dr. Martin H. Fischer’s Lecture Hall
By: Nathan Hood
Close-up.
A variation of the University’s
coat of arms remains in the
Health Professions building.
In the University of Cincinnati’s modern- looking Health Professions building, the students in Room 231 have the odd privilege of enjoying several beautifully old, stained glass windows. The windows are reminiscent of a time before the renovations, when the building was the University’s College of Medicine. In the past, one of these rooms served as the physiology lecture hall, initially overseen by Dr. Martin H. Fischer. That intriguing space once featured the entire Cantagalli Pharmacy installation, numerous symbolic engravings, and leather orchestra chairs; but the stained glass windows of that old classroom and the neighboring library are an interesting story by themselves.
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Looking East Book Signing Scheduled for June 24
Join UC Libraries for a public book signing for Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia. The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods.
The event, scheduled for June 24, 7pm, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Rookwood Pavilion, will include readings by authors Margo Taft Stever and Hong Shen.
OhioLINK Catalog and Hosted Services Unavailable June 12 & 13
All OH-TECH organizations – including OhioLINK – are moving to a new data center as the building that houses their current data center is slated to be demolished. The new location at the State of Ohio Computing Center will provide OhioLINK with a near-Tier 4 data center that can deliver a higher grade of services and achieve greater efficiencies.
Because of the move, all OhioLINK hosted services will be down for the move during the following window: Friday, June 12, 6pm – Saturday, June 13, 12pm.
This will include:
- OhioLINK website
- Central Catalog
- EJC
- EBC
- DRC
- ETD
- EAD
- EZProxy
- Rave URLS
OhioLINK mailing lists will not be affected by the outage, and OhioLINK staff will communicate with membership via email and social media (http://twitter.com/ohiolink and http://facebook.com/ohiolink) if necessary during the maintenance window.
Dr. Martin H. Fischer and The Cantagalli Pharmacy
By: Nathan Hood
Major renovations of the University of Cincinnati’s previous College of Medicine building, now the Health Professions building, led to The Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions’ acquisition of numerous, intricately decorated artifacts altogether known as The Cantagalli Pharmacy. The entire collection represents a precise imitation of a 15th-16th Century Italian Apothecary and originally functioned as an exhibit for the 1900 Paris Exposition.
The Cantagalli Pharmacy in its Exposition configuration.
This photo also serves as a link to film footage from the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Documenting India: Day 11 and Time to Journey Home
Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a UC class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project. This is a return trip for Jay as he traveled with this same class in spring 2014. He is applying lessons learned from that trip to make the student’s experience an even better one.
Over the course of their trip, Jay will share on this blog some of his observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…
From Jay: Before heading to the airport to begin our journey back to the U.S., we visited a business in Bombay that cleans uniforms.
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- Taxi ride around Bombay.
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- A business that cleans uniforms.
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- A business that cleans uniforms.
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- Overlooking the cleaning business.
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- View from hotel pool area.
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- Waiting to head to the airport.
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- Heading home.
Documenting India: Day 10
Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a UC class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project. This is a return trip for Jay as he traveled with this same class in spring 2014. He is applying lessons learned from that trip to make the student’s experience an even better one.
Over the course of their trip, Jay will share on this blog some of his observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…
From Jay: Today was a very long day as we traveled from Goa to Bombay, India.
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- Heading to airport to go from Goa to Bombay.
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- On bus to airport.
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- Sign for lady-driven taxies in the Bombay airport.
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- View of Bombay from bus on bridge.
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- Lunch in downtown Bombay. Cafe Mondegar.
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- Shopping in Bombay.
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- Bombay. Picture taken by Mitch, a student.
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- Mitch and I enjoying a thumbs-up drink in the very hot and humid night in Bombay.
Documenting India: Day 9
Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a UC class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project. This is a return trip for Jay as he traveled with this same class in spring 2014. He is applying lessons learned from that trip to make the student’s experience an even better one.
Over the course of their trip, Jay will share on this blog some of his observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…
From Jay: Today we visited two NGOs and had lunch at the home of the son of one of our consultants on the trip. The view from his home was spectacular.
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- A sign welcoming us to our visit with NGOs.
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- A meeting with 2 NGOs.
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- The view of Goa from above.
Documenting India: Day 8
Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a UC class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project. This is a return trip for Jay as he traveled with this same class in spring 2014. He is applying lessons learned from that trip to make the student’s experience an even better one.
Over the course of their trip, Jay will share on this blog some of his observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…
From Jay: Today we traveled to Goa, India where we took some time to visit a church and relax in the hotel pool.
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- Lunch in Goa. This building is a performing arts building. A cafe is right in the middle.
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- At the pool. The O hotel.
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- Visiting a church, St. Xavier.
Documenting India: Day 7
Jay Sinnard, manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), is traveling with a UC class to provide media support as they record testimonials as part of their class project. This is a return trip for Jay as he traveled with this same class in spring 2014. He is applying lessons learned from that trip to make the student’s experience an even better one.
Over the course of their trip, Jay will share on this blog some of his observations, images and video from their travels. Check back often…
From Jay: Today we traveled to Bangalore where we visited Jagruthi, a NGO, as well as the Department of Women and Children.
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- We visited Jagruthi, a NGO in Bangalore.
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- Also visited department of women and children (government).
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- Our hotel in Bangalore.