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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 on the social study of science, technology, and medicine. This new thematic cluster is funded by the Holtz Center for …

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 Hill is a 120-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated human services—social, educational, legal, health, …

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 published in 2012 and 2013. This prize is a biennial prize that recognizes the best article in the field of …

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 of Modern and Contemporary History, Director, Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University “Lysenko Unemployed, 1965-1976.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January …

Professor John Hall chosen to receive Distinguished Teaching Award

Professor Richard Keller wins 2014 Koren Prize from the SFHS

April 2014 The Society for French Historical Studies has awarded Richard C. Keller the William Koren Prize for his article, “Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Form in the 2003 Paris Heat Wave Disaster,” published in French Historical Studies 36, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 299-330. The Koren prize is awarded annually for an outstanding journal …

Prinster receives 2014 L & S Teaching Fellow Award

April 2014 Scott Prinster has received a 2014 Letters & Sciences Teaching Fellow Award for his outstanding work as an experienced teaching assistant. He has taught for seven semesters in the History of Science department, as well as teaching courses in astronomy and global studies. The College of Letters & Sciences selects 15 Fellows each …