August 2012 Read about Professor Rick Keller’s research on the 2003 heat wave that gripped Europe and Paris in particular. Two recent news articles tell the whole story: “Forget blizzards and hurricanes, heat waves are deadliest” (UW–Madison News) and “Seely on Science: Heat waves more deadly than hurricanes, floods” (Wisconsin State Journal).
August 2012 Bradley Moore, a dissertator in the Joint PhD Program in History and the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, has been awarded the 2011 Roy Porter Prize. Presented by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and named in honor of the late Professor Roy Porter, this prize is given for the …
August 2012 Meridith Beck Sayre and Dana A. Freiburger, both dissertators in History of Science, recently participated in a 5-day course offering hands-on training on computational techniques and tools in the humanities. The Humanities Hackathon: Computational Approaches to Cultural Analysis and Visualization was held at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on July 23-27, 2012, and …
January 27 (Friday) at Noon Marcia Holmes, University of Chicago “Pilot, Navigator, Bombardier, Psychologist: Measuring the Aptitudes of Bomber Crews in World War II and the Making of the US Army Air Forces’ Aviation Psychology Program.” February 3 (Friday) at Noon Felicity Turner, Law and Society Fellow, UW–Madison “Narratives of Infanticide: Mothers, Murder, and the …
April 2012 Gregg A. Mitman, Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History and Environmental Studies and the Nelson Institute interim director, was awarded the William H. Welch Medal for his 2007 book Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape our Lives and Landscapes at the recent American Association for the History of …
April 2012 Gregg Mitman and Paul Erickson have won he the 2012 Ralph Gomory Prize for their article Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire which appeared in Radical History Review Spring 2010. This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the …
April 2012 Alexandra Rudnick has been awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship. This award provides 3 years of support, tenable over a 5-year period and is intended for students at or near the beginning of their graduate study. Before coming the University of Wisconsin in 2010, Rudnick studied environmental history at the University of Florida where …