Latest Past Events

2025 Urdang Medal Lecture – Dennis Worthen

2025 Urdang Medal Lecture Dennis Worthen A Blend of Descriptive Narrative and Prosopographic Insight: A Look Back Wednesday, June 17th 11:00 am CDT Register for the lecture here. The 2025 Urdang Lecture responds to the request to examine some of my historical work, especially over the past 30 years.  My work was written for pharmacists...

Pharmacy History Working Group: Meet the History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Editors

Meet the HoPP Editors Speakers: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University, & Lucas Richert, University of Wisconsin-Madison & American Institute of the History of Pharmacy ​ Considering publishing in the field of pharmacy history?  The journal, ​History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (HoPP) publishes original scholarly articles about the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, broadly defined, including (but not limited to) the...

Pharmacy History Working Group: JJ R. Strange, PhD Candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison – Crisis in the Garden: How War and Environmental Loss Transformed Chinese Pharmaceutical Research (1935-1955)

During the early and mid-twentieth century, global pharmaceutical research shifted away from botanical investigation to the synthetic creation of biochemical medicines. This presentation aims to reframe the shift in Chinese pharmaceutical research from botanicals to synthetic medicines as a product of changing landscapes within a research community, rather than a inevitable change in pharacueticals. In...