April 2014 The UW History of Science department was well represented at the recent 57th annual meeting of the recent Midwest Junto for the History of Science. Held April 4-6 at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, five graduate students attended with four giving talks on topics ranging from Digitized Media and Data Visualization (Scott Prinster) …
The annual Merle Curti Lectures commemorate our late colleague Merle Curti, a pioneer in the practice of American intellectual and cultural history, as well as a beloved member of our department for nearly half a century until his death in 1996. The Curti Lectures constitute the centerpiece of the department’s academic year. For almost thirty …
March 2014 Soon-to-graduate doctoral candidate Lynnette Regouby has been awarded a two-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society (APS) in Philadelphia. Starting in September in the APS Museum, Lynnette will conduct research in the APS collections in preparation for three upcoming exhibits on Thomas Jefferson, who was president of the APS from …
January 2014 Professor Susan Lederer will be giving the George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science at the upcoming 2014 AAAS annual meeting in Chicago on Saturday, 15 February 2014, at Noon. The title of her talk is “The Living and the Dead: Biomedical Science, American Society, and the Human Body.” …
January 2014 Bridget Collins has received a 2013 Capstone Teaching Award for her outstanding work as a University of Wisconsin teaching assistant. In recognition of the critical role TAs play in undergraduate instruction, this campus-wide award acknowledges teaching assistants who have performed as outstanding teachers throughout their UW–Madison tenure. Nominees are dissertators at the end …
Our Wisconsin Boys in Épinal Military Cemetery, France This project began with an email from Monsieur Joel Houot, a French citizen from the village of Val d’Ajol to Mary Louise Roberts, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Houot wrote to Professor Roberts, an historian of the American G.I.s in Normandy, to …
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 …