Category Archives: Exhibits

Brainteasers: Can You Solve Them All?

Posted on June 9, 2025 by ebrown

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month. In recognition of this important topic, the HSHSL is challenging you to tackle 22 puzzles, head-scratchers and riddles in the Weise Gallery. While you’re there, take a look at the anatomical illustrations of … Continue reading →

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The Art of Survival: AIDS, Posters, and Public Health

Posted on May 10, 2025 by ebrown

The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) is proud to host AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People’s History of a Pandemic, a traveling exhibition exploring how communities have used posters and storytelling in response to the … Continue reading →

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Groundbreaking: Spring Botanicals Exhibit

Posted on March 19, 2025 by ebrown

March 10-May 31, 2025 HSHSL’s exhibit, “Groundbreaking: Spring Botanicals,” features illustrations by 18th-century botanists William Woodville and William Curtis from the library’s Pharmacy Historical Collection. The botanical illustrations were digitally enhanced and enlarged to highlight intricate details and vivid colors.  … Continue reading →

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Drawing Blood: Anatomical Depictions of the Heart Exhibit

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Tara Wink

February is American Heart Month. To honor this most central organ, the HSHSL has installed an exhibit in the Weise Gallery highlighting four centuries of anatomical drawings of the heart from the HSHSL’s Historical Collections.   The first understanding of … Continue reading →

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Don’t Miss the December Connective Issues Newsletter

Posted on December 7, 2024 by ebrown

In this edition: Dean’s Message Home Grown: The 2025 HSHSL Calendar December Hours Student Advisory Board (SAB) Update Walk, Watch, Study: Multitask on Our Treadmills Visual Storytelling in Medicine: New Exhibit at HSHSL Sequential Art: Stories by Baltimore City Students … Continue reading →

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Graphic Medicine: New Exhibit at HSHSL 

Posted on December 5, 2024 by ebrown

Dec. 9, 2024 – Jan. 18, 2025 The HSHSL is proud to host the National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibit, “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn.” The exhibit’s authors describe “graphic medicine” as “the use of comics to tell personal stories … Continue reading →

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Sequential Art: Stories by Baltimore City Students

Posted on November 5, 2024 by ebrown

Oct. 30, 2024 – Jan. 17, 2025 The Mother Mary Lange (MML) Catholic School teamed up with the Health Sciences and Human Services Library to present an exhibit exploring mental health, self-expression, and Halloween-inspired storytelling. We invite you to experience … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Lab: Postdoctoral Art at the Weise Gallery

Posted on September 4, 2024 by ebrown

Postdoctoral fellows are a driving force behind the biomedical research conducted at UMB. They work long hours in the lab, advancing cutting-edge research. September is Postdoc Appreciation Month, a time to recognize and celebrate our postdocs. In this exhibition, postdocs … Continue reading →

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Fall into Creativity: Visit the Enchanted Pumpkin Patch at HSHSL

Posted on August 27, 2024 by ebrown

Fall is a busy time for new and returning students. Take a coloring break in HSHSL’s Weise Gallery on the first floor. This year’s coloring wall theme is “The Enchanted Pumpkin Patch”. Grab some markers and color in pumpkins, gnomes, … Continue reading →

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“Hiding in the Walls” Documentary & Discussion, Wed, July 10, Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Posted on July 1, 2024 by ebrown

Join the HSHSL for a screening and group discussion of “Hiding in the Walls,” a documentary that explores the fraught history of lead’s government-mandated use in low-income housing in Baltimore. The film delves into how lead poisoning became an accepted … Continue reading →

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