October 2014 The 58th Midwest Junto for the History of Science will take place on 17-19 April 2015 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Organized by the History of Science department, this meeting invites paper submissions on any aspect of the history and philosophy of science, technology, or medicine, and, per tradition, graduate students are especially …
October 2014 Soon-to-arrive Assistant Professor Catherine Jackson has been awarded the 2014 Liebig-Woehler-Freundschaftspreis, or Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award, by the Göttinger Chemischen Gesellschaft and Museum der Göttinger Chemie for her work in the history of organic chemistry, including the 2014 article “Synthetical Experiments and Alkaloid Analogues: Liebig, Hofmann and the origins of organic synthesis” in Historical Studies …
September 2014 Linda Hogle, Nicole Nelson, Pilar Ossorio, and Kris Saha will lead a new initiative entitled “Disclosure and Enclosure: the Paradoxes of Information Flow in Knowledge Communities” to advance interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach on the social study of science, technology, and medicine. This new thematic cluster is funded by the Holtz Center for …
May 2014 Brad Moore has received a two-year American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Postdoctoral Fellowship to work as the Research and Partnerships Manager at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City. Lenox Hill is a 120-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated human services—social, educational, legal, health, …
May 2014 Pablo Gomez’s 2013 article, “The Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth-century Black Spanish Caribbean,” published in Social History of Medicine has won the 2014 Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize for articles published in 2012 and 2013. This prize is a biennial prize that recognizes the best article in the field of …
January 24 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Dana Freiburger, UW-Madison “Cattell’s Catholics: Who were these American Men of Science?” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 31 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Michael D. Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Director, Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University “Lysenko Unemployed, 1965-1976.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January …