American Democracy, Veterans, and Higher Education James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Dartmouth's James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, for a discussion of his work as a historian and as President of an Ivy League college. Topics covered include: his formative years, his research on populism in the Western U.S. in the 19th century, leadership in higher education, and challenges facing public and private universities in the new economic environment. President Wright also discusses his work in aiding Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans to pursue higher education. He places these efforts in the historical context of American democracy's ambivalent relationship to veterans from the time of the revolution to the present. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/ http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/ http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1721

Patients could one day self-administer vaccines using a needleless, pill-sized technology, called the MucoJet, that jet-releases a stream of vaccine inside the mouth, according to a new technology developed at UC Berkeley. Roxanne Makasdjian from Berkeley News talks to Dorian Liepmann, professor of mechanical and bioengineering, about the MucoJet. For the full story, visit: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/08/oral-delivery-system-could-make-vaccination-needle-free/ Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally Music: "Pacific Hike" and "Tobaggan" by Silent Partner http://news.berkeley.edu/ http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley ...

The note, now on loan from the Bancroft, goes on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam this Friday as part of an exhibit titled “On the Verge of Insanity.” For a book on the Dutch master’s mutilated ear, British author Bernadette Murphy needed to clear up confusion about the extent of the damage the artist inflicted on himself in 1888. So she rang up the Bancroft, which held Stone’s archives. For the full story, visit: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/12/sharp-eyes-at-bancroft-and-a-new-focus-on-van-goghs-ear/ Library assistant David Kessler searched through an uncataloged box devoted to Lust for Life, and finally retrieved a signed letter from Van Gogh’s doctor with a sketch of his left ear detailing the self-mutilation, which attested to the fact that the artist removed all but the earlobe. That tale and more are now revealed in the newly published book Van Gogh’s Ear: The True Story (Chatto & Windus, London), which was discussed today at a press conference at the museum. The letter is also the centerpiece of a new PBS documentary on the artist that will premiere later this month, and which is based on Murphy’s book. ...