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PhD Candidate Wins Maurice A. Biot Fund Grant

PhD candidate Miriam F. Lipton received this year’s Maurice A. Biot Fund Grant, which supports researchers and their use of the Caltech Archives. Lipton’s research relies on analyzing how scientists who studied antibiotics and bacteriophages handled the rise of antibiotic resistance. Between 1920 and 1969 (the discovery of bacteriophages to the acknowledgement of antibiotic resistance […]

PhD Candidate Wins Research Grant

PhD candidate Miriam F. Lipton received a 2021 PhD Research Support Grant from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. Lipton’s grant will be used to support access to and research within pharmaceutical trade catalogs for Lilly, Squibb, and Parke-Davis. Lipton’s research examines the division of the United States and the Soviet Union along […]

PhD Candidate Wins Virtual Fellowship

PhD candidate Miriam F. Lipton received a four-month virtual fellowship with the prestigious Linda Hall Library. “The Linda Hall Library is the world’s foremost independent research library devoted to science, engineering, and technology.” Lipton’s fellowship includes four months of research funding for the 2021-2022 academic year. The external review committee expressed their piqued interested in […]