In celebration of National Public Health Week, the Student Public Health Association of Dallas presents a full week of lectures and discussions that focus on both local and global public health initiatives. The programs, which are co-sponsored by the UT School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus and the UT Southwestern Medical Center Library, are listed as follows:

Monday, April 2, 2012
Global Public Health
Elizabeth Race, M.D.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Ignaz Semmelweis & The History of Epidemiology
Robert Haley, M.D.
Room D1.100, 12-1 p.m.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Dallas: Making a Difference Locally
Wendy Chung, M.D.
Room D1.106, 12-1 p.m.

Thursday, April 5, 2012
Improving the Development of Children: A Public Health Perspective
Margaret Caughy, Sc.D.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Friday, April 6, 2012
Bioterrorism, Disaster Preparedness & Public Health
John T. Carlo, M.D., M.S.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Everyone is invited. For more information, please contact David Bennett Grinsfelder by email at david.grinsfelder@utsouthwestern.edu or by phone at 214-226-0668.

A traveling banner exhibition, and online exhibition with education resources developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health will be on display for a limited engagement at the South Campus (main) Library from March 19 – April 28, 2012.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality in the terms available to his age—that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors –blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm. These four humors were thought to define peoples’ physical and mental health, and determined their personalities, as well.

The language of the four humors pervades Shakespeare’s plays, and their influence is felt above all in a belief that emotional states are physically determined. Carried by the bloodstream, the four humors bred the core passions of anger, grief, hope, and fear—the emotions conveyed so powerfully in Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies.

“And there’s the humor of it” Shakespeare and the four humors explores these themes in a special display featuring images of rare books and incunables from the collection of the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Curated by Gail Kern Paster, PhD and Theodore Brown, PhD and exhibition design by Riggs Ward Design.