December 2013 History of Science graduate student Melissa Charenko and Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow Toshihiro Higuchi have been named Honored Instructors for their contributions to UW students and their education. This fall, as course TA and course instructor respectively, they taught HistSci 203 – Science in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Overview to over …
September 6 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 13 (Friday) at Noon Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech “History of Science & Technology and Public Policy: Reflections on an Academic’s Attempt to Influence the Real World.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 20 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mike Shank, UW–Madison …
October 2013 Melissa Charenko’s short film, 24-7B, will premiere on Friday, November 1, 2013, the opening night of the 2013 Tales From Planet Earth biennial film festival. Charenko, a history of science graduate student, produced this three minute film as part of a collaborative class on environmental filmmaking co-taught this semester by UW History of …
August 2013 Carl Bialik, ‘The Numbers Guy’ columnist for the Wall Street Journal, interviewed Professor Rick Keller as part of his 17 August 2013 blog posting titled “The Challenge of Counting Heat-Wave Deaths.” Click ‘here’ to read Bialik’s blog which offers access to a longer 16 August print article titled “Death Tolls From Summer Heat …
On July 21, 2013, Thongchai Winichakul was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio’s show, University of the Air. The topic of the show was “Thailand: Coping with a Troubled Past”. A complete list of past shows can be found on the University of the Air’s Archive Page.
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (University of Chicago Press), has been awarded the 2013 Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Book Award for the best book in American intellectual history published in 2012! Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book also received the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal …
May 2013 During the recent American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) meeting held in Atlanta, GA, third-year graduate student Vicki Fama’s received an Honorable Mention in the Shryock Medal Essay Contest for her essay “Heroes and Villains: Displaying and Viewing Bodies at the United States Army Medical Museum, 1862-1888.” Named for Richard Harrison …