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Netter Library Newsletter October 2025

AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT     

Panel 2806 of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display in the Netter Library through October 14, 2025. It honors the lives of Alan H. Cummings, Clark Mulholland, Brian K. Moussette, Bob Pethick, Ray Wheeler, George H. Hernandez III, John Steven Vipon, Michael, Brian O'Leary. There is also a panel on display at the Arnold Bernhold Library on the Mt. Carmel campus.

The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time human rights activist, author and lecturer Cleve Jones. Cleve created the first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of his friend Marvin Feldman. The Quilt grew from there, to say the least: The last display of the entire AIDS Memorial Quilt was in October of 1996 when the Quilt covered the entire National Mall in Washington, D.C. with an estimated 1.2 million people coming to view it.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is an epic 54-ton tapestry that includes nearly 50,000 panels dedicated to more than 110,000 individuals. It is the premiere symbol of the ongoing AIDS pandemic, a living memorial to a generation lost to AIDS, and an important HIV prevention education tool. With hundreds of thousands of people contributing their talents to making the memorial panels, and tens of thousands of volunteers to help display it, the Quilt is considered the largest community arts project in history. More history of the AIDS quilt.

ANATOMY RESEARCH GUIDE

Studying anatomy? We’ve got your back (and bones!). Check out our updated Anatomy Research Guide. The guide pulls together the best library tools all in one place, including books, ebooks, databases, journals, websites, histology, and historical anatomy as well as anatomy by category. Whether you’re preparing for exams, working on assignments, or deepening your understanding of anatomy, this guide is a great place to start.

USING AI TOOLS IN YOUR RESEARCH: TIPS AND TRICKS

Curious about how AI can help with your academic research? Or worried about it causing problems for you? In these sessions we will look at practical ways AI tools can spark ideas, suggest search strategies, and summarize findings--while helping you avoid some of the problems. We cover university policies, data security, hallucinations, bias, along with some examples of useful tools and methods.

Monday, October 13, 2025, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in MNH 200. Registration required.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in MNH 340. Registration required.

DATABASE SPOTLIGHT

NEW – Clinical Capsules now available on MedOne Education. Clinical Capsules on MedOne Education is a  comprehensive series of clinical learning modules that cover individual diseases and disorders. They are organized within 15 volumes, spanning across organ systems and specialties. Those 15 volumes are:

• Cardiovascular System
• Dermatologic System
• Endocrine System
• Gastrointestinal System
• Gynecology
• Hematologic System
• Multisystem Processes and Disorders
• Musculoskeletal System
• Neurologic System
• Obstetrics
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonary System
• Renal and Genitourinary System
• Surgery

There are now 435 modules.

ARBOR VITAE

Arbor Vitae ARBOR VITAE is the online creative arts journal of the Quinnipiac University Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It is a place for students, faculty, staff, clinical affiliates, and care recipients to share creative deliberations on health, illness, and humanity.

Student editorial positions are available and we invite faculty, staff, clinical affiliates, students, and care recipients from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to share their creative deliberations on health, illness, and humanity. We publish prose, poetry, visual arts, and multimedia content. Submissions are open for the Spring 2026 volume.

NEW RESOURCES  

New books in the collection:

• BRS Pharmacology (Test Prep)
• Robbins, Cotran & Kumar Pathologic Basis of Disease (Print Book)
• DSM-5-TR Made Easy: The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis (Ebook)
• (Print Book)
• A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex (DEI Collection)
• The Courage to be disliked: the Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to change your life and achieve real happiness (Payton Rae Mickey Health & Wellness Collection)
• Iron Flame (Payton Rae Mickey Leisure Reading)

QUACK

Are you a crocheter or knitter? Come join members of the Netter Library staff for lunchtime (1pm) knitting and crocheting. We sit outside of the library in the comfy chairs. Bring your own projects or come to learn!  

SOME THINGS WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO

• Reflective hike to yoga! This collaborative program provides attendees with time to reflect, connect & to move. Utilizing the beautiful state park, we meet up 4 times in the fall and spring to breathe, hike and enjoy conversation with campus partners. Any questions contact: tami.reilly@quinnipiac.edu This is a free event!
• Erector Square Open Studios 2025 Weekend October 18 & 19^th  -- A unique opportunity for visitors to meet a variety of artists, designers, and craftspeople in their New Haven, Connecticut, studios, some of whom are only open to the public during this event. 
• Looking for an experience designed to thrill, chill, and leave you breathless? Visit Lyman Orchards Evidence of Evil Haunted Attraction! Opening Friday, October 3^rd, and Open every Friday, Saturday & Sunday Through November 1^st.
• Oktoberfest at Twelve Percent Beer Project in North Haven on October 4^th and 5^th. Enjoy a day or two filled with live music, games, pretzels, sausages, dancing and plenty of delicious beer!
• Sitting at the bar and enjoying the “taste and share” menu at Noa.
• Go listen to some blues music in a hidden gem of a venue. GA-20 with Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are coming to the Space Ballroom in Hamden on Saturday, October 25^th. 

SOCIAL MEDIA

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NETTER LIBRARY HOURS

Monday – Friday 8AM – 8PM

Saturdays & Sundays 12PM – 5PM

CLOSED October 2, 2025, for Yom Kippur

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OCTOBER 2025     netterlibrary@quinnipiac.edu     203.582.5266