Gerardo Collection

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TheGerardo dining collection delivers an elegant approach on rustic inspired design. The tapered profile with white marble top create a modern serving of mixed media style. Fashion side and arm chairs feature soft upholstery with tufted cushions. Completing the collection with the marble top server with multiple storage. Enjoy family dinners every night indulging in delicious food and funny stories gathered around this cozy dining set. Chairs sold separately.

One of my own exposures to citizen science was with the Gerardo lab through the Atlanta Science Festival. At this event, we premiered the website mycrobes.org. Visitors of our booth were provided a plate with bacterial medium and allowed to inoculate it with a body surface or anything else in their environment. Pictures were taken daily for a week and uploaded to the website. Not only is the website still available, but certain members of the lab are working on updating the website and data collection methods for integration into the biology curricula of local Atlanta schools.

Although the importance of generating interest among science outsiders and kids in society cannot be understated, the integration of citizen science also benefits the scientific community, especially among researchers focused on certain microbial symbionts and the microbiome. Research like the projects undertaken by our lab have become possible due to our improving ability to collect and sort large volumes of data from an environment, but this sort of inquiry only results in significant findings if we can find trends in data across many individuals or across multiple environments. Insect collection, for example, could present this problem, especially if the insect of interest is associated with multiple habitats. The utilization of resident insect collectors across these habitats would save us time in the experimental process.

We live in a microbial world, but how keenly aware are we of the presence of these microbes in our everyday life? Created with the intent of increasing this awareness, the mycrobes project has been used to illustrate the almost ubiquitous presence of fungi and bacteria in the world around us. Students, teachers, and interested people of all ages swab a combination of environmental and human samples onto an LB plate, and then we photograph the plates everyday allowing anyone to catch a glimpse of the diversity of the microbial life in the world around them as they track the progress of their plate online at mycrobes.org.

One of my favorite things about mycrobes.org is that you can search using tags for samples that have been collected from any source of interest (eyeball anyone?). The mycrobes project has allowed us to reach out to the community and interact with our future scientists as we teach them about the importance of the microscopic community all around them. Lately, I have had the opportunity to speak to both local elementary school teachers from Bouie Elementary School as well as high school students in the Pre-College Program at Emory about the mycrobes project. They have been very responsive and it has been very rewarding.

This week, we did not have the traditional lab meeting. Rather than discussing a paper or critiquing a practice talk, we instead each talked about or demonstrated something that we enjoyed doing outside of the lab. These included singing, going to the movies, photography, baking, knitting and reading. Oh, and taking care of two pet rats. Some are talents. Some are escapes. Some are both. What is clear is that I am fortunate to be surrounded by interesting, engaged people.

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The collection houses thirty photographs and three lantern slides that were published between 1898 and 1935. The glass plates were published by the Keystone View Company and include scenes from Cuba's first years as a republic. Nineteen of the thirty photographs were published by the Secretara de Obras Pblicas when Machado was president, and Dr. Carlos Miguel de Cspedes, secretario (secretary) of Obras Pblicas. These photographs show images of the state infrastructure, such as schools, hospitals, roads, and buildings. The collection also includes four photographs with French annotations and two pages from a scrapbook with mounted photographs.

General Gerardo Machado y Morales (1871-1939) was the fifth president of Cuba (1924-1933). He was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, and during the war for independence he served in the Ejrcito Libertador. His first term was characterized by emphasis in constructing and renovating state infrastructure as well as improving the education system. During his regime, the Secretara de Obras Pblicas (Ministry of Public Works) built Cuba's Carretera Central (central highway), the Capitolio (National Capitol Building), Paseo de Mart (Mart Promenade), the Malecn (sea boulevard), several buildings at the Universidad de La Habana, schools, and hospitals, such as the Instituto del Cncer, as well as aqueducts and government buildings. Machado combined a genuine support for U.S. interests while defending the idea of Cuban sovereignty by taxing American capital investments. He promoted investments in tourism, industry, and mining.

His second term began in 1929 and ended in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression and a movement of political opposition that developed into a prolonged and violent period of civil war. The repression of Machado against such opposition was brutal. By early 1933, the confrontation between Machado's government (the police and the army) and the political opposition (students, organized labor, and secret societies of middle class professionals) had grown in violence and frequency. On May 8, 1933 Sumner Welles was sent to Havana by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to oversee the Cuban situation. Not being able to influence Machado to reinstate the constitutional guarantees that he had removed in June 1931, Welles negotiated an end to Machado's presidency in July 1933 and ushered in the age of Fulgencio Batista.

This collection includes photographs and lantern slides depicting public works and landscapes from Cuba. Most of the photographs have the seal of the Gobierno de la Repblica de Cuba, specifically the Secretara de Obras Pblicas.

The collection is arranged by provenance and format into four series: "Series 1: Lantern slides," "Series 2: Secretara de Obras Pblicas," "Series 3: French produced photographs," and "Series 4: Other images of Havana."

Digital reproductions of items in the Public Works of Cuba Photographs are available online via the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC). Please read the Permissions for Use statement for information on copyright, fair use, and use of UFDC digital objects.

Gerardo Romero is currently a research assistant with the MEMO project team. He holds a B.Sc in Economics and is pursuing an M.Sc in International Studies at the University of Montreal. His experience centers on social and economic analysis of Latin American countries within multidisciplinary teams. He has developed expertise in designing and implementing tools for data collection, processing, and analysis for project monitoring and evaluation across various geographical scales. Gerardo aims to contribute to research on immigration, integration and identity in a multicultural context.

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