Centro Lincoln University College would like to acknowledge and thank Dr. Richard D. Mahoney (Ph.D., International Relations, School of International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) who taught during the Winter Break of June-July, 2007 the seminar entitled “Between the State and the Free Market: Analyzing Risks and Opportunities in Latin American Economies”.

As a historian, international studies professor, filmmaker, published poet, foreign policy expert, and former elected official for the Arizona State, Dr. Mahoney has given courses and lectures at different universities in international economics, foreign policy and the Kennedy administration. He has also taught finance and international studies courses in Spanish, French and English.

At C-LUC Mahoney taught to several students from diverse universities such as Huston-Tillotson University (Austin, Texas), Syracuse University (New York), Hamilton College (New York), and our own Centro Lincoln University College (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

The seminar included the theory and institutional architecture of international market capitalism – how it works and who calls the shots. That conceptual and operational framework was then applied to Latin America in terms of the impacts of liberalization on the Latin American economies and the return of the state as the key actor and protector of national interest. Although it was taught to undergraduate students, it included a Harvard Business Case entitled “The 2001 Crisis in Argentina: An IMF-Sponsored Default?”.
It proved to be a challenging experience to all involved and the results were higher than expected at this level.

We thank Dr. Mahoney and wish to see him in our classrooms in the near future again.

For more information on Dr. Richard D. Mahoney, please visit his homepage:
http://www.richarddmahoney.com/

“The Mittelman Legacy”

Procurad también, leyendo vuestra historia… que
el discreto se admire de la invención…

Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quijote

Dr. Naum Mittelman was a science Professor at Asociación Escuelas Lincoln (AEL) for almost 40 years, and after he retired, he taught Chemistry at Lincoln University College for many semesters. He was also Senior Professor of inorganic chemistry at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and Professor of the Escuela del Ejército in Buenos Aires. At the same Dr. Mittelman also worked with the Nobel Prize winning chemist Luis Leloir.

When he passed away in 2002, his daughter Silvia Mittelman donated to C-LUC his science book collection (approximately 2000 books), manuscripts, pictures and personal belongings related to his science teaching career. This collection is now on the third floor of the Mansion within the Lincoln Campus.

Dr. Mittelman’s legacy is important in relation to the influence that he had for many of his students –he was professor whose passion for teaching awaken several vocational aspirations within the scientific world. The present collection of Dr. Mittelman’s books, manuscripts and belongings show a devotional spirit for teaching in every aspect of their preparation, dedication and instruction.

At the same time, the importance of Dr. Mittelman in the field of Science Research in Argentina and the History of the Science should not be undervalued. His relationship with Luis Leloir is part of those links that no matter how small or accidental they seem to be; they are part of what Thomas S. Kuhn identified to be ingredients of the structure of scientific revolutions.

The present project is aimed at the conservation and valorization of the Mittelman Collection which was donated almost two years ago and still is found without a defined and concrete space of storage within conservation criteria and liable to many risks. Therefore, the project is directed to the assembly, systematization and development of a Mittelman Collection within preventive conservation in libraries and archives.

Once that stage is completed, this project will focus on a permanent exhibition of the Mittelman Collection within Centro LUC and creating a digital space a digital space to harbor this collection in such form which will ensure that the most important materials related to the library and archives will be preserved in accessible forms for as long as possible.
Click here to see a preliminary version of the website.

As such, it will be a comprehensive source of Dr. Naum Mittelman’s life and work in relationship to the spheres of education as a teacher, research as a scientist, and it will also serve as homage to this influential figure.

The work on the preventive conservation and classification of this collection is being undertaken by Lic. Ana Margarita Gayoso and Lic. Leandro Francisco Venier, two former graduate of UNSAM/Centro LUC’s Licenciatura en Humanidades program as it also is a dissertation by Lic. María José Fernández, under the direction of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, a physicist and a brilliant young historian of science at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). A future exhibition will take place at Centro LUC, coordinated by Lic. María José Fernández and Lic. Anne Gustavsson assisting the project.

The project will consist of the following:
• Preservation and classification of all the items in the collection
• Digitization of manuscripts and letters
• Establishment of a permanent room to house this collection on the third floor of the Mansion
• Preparation of an exhibition on Mittelman’s life, times and teaching
• Publication of a book on Mittelman’s career as scientist and teacher

Mittelman (called “Doc” by everybody at Lincoln) used to tell that his mentor, Luis Leloir, loved research but detested teaching. “Doc”, as we know, was different. Leloir is certainly more famous, but who knows who did more for the progress of science – Leloir with his research team or “Doc” with his students? We do believe “Doc”, with his students, merits a serious study for the history of Lincoln and maybe a little beyond that.