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 …
2014
Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award to Catherine Jackson
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, …
Lecture by Professor Paul A. Hanebrink, Rutgers University
New STS Initiative at UW: “Disclosure and Enclosure”
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 …
Jan Vansina speaks on Memory & Autobiography
Joe Dennis’s Global Gateway class in Shanghai
ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Alumnus Brad Moore
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 …
Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize to Pablo Gomez
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 …
All History of Science Department Events for Spring 2014
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 …