Notables

Daniel Mandell, professor of history, presented “Wealth and Power in the Early Republic,” a draft chapter from his book in progress, at the Missouri Regional Seminar for Early American History in Columbia.

Clara Miller-Broomfield, sophomore romance language major, and Tom Capuano, professor of Spanish, presented their paper, “Patterns of Exchange in the Mediterranean Pharmacology of Saladino d’Ascoli (15th c.)” at the 39th annual meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association at the University of Missouri Kansas City, Feb. 28. Miller-Broomfield’s presentation explored the competing meanings in fifteenth and sixteenth century Spanish medical essays of the obscure term secaniabin and its use as a subtiliative agent in medieval pharmacology.