April 2006 Gregg Mitman won the Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award for 2005 from the American Society for Environmental History for his April 2005 article “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History.” The award is given annually for the best article published in Environmental History.
Walton O. Schalick, “Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician,” in J. Duffin, ed. Clio in the Clinic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 27-45.
November 2005 In recognition of his contributions to science, Ronald Numbers was elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
September 2005 Professor Gregg Mitman of our faculty will be a featured guest at 8:00 p.m. Thursday September 8 on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Here on Earth” program. An expert on nature films, Gregg will talk with host Jean Feraca about this summer’s surprise hit documentary, “March of the Penguins.” “Here on Earth” can be heard …
September 2005 The Department of the History of Science and the Institute for Research in the Humanities are pleased to announce the Coleman Dissertation Fellowship in the History of Science. The fellowship honors the distinguished historian of science William Coleman (1938-1988), who taught at UW–Madison from 1978 to 1988. The first fellowship will be awarded …
July 2005 Ronald Numbers has been elected to a four-year term (2005-2009) as president of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
February 2005 Associate Professor Thomas H. Broman has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for academic year 2005-2006 for his project, “The Role of the Press in Shaping the Authority of Science in Eighteenth-Century Germany.”
January 2005 Professor Michael H. Shank has been appointed chair of the new UW Center for Early Modern Studies, effective January 2005.
December 2014 The recent competition for UW Graduate School Vilas Grants proved successful for a trio of History of Science department dissertators. Melissa Charenko and Vicki Fama Daniel each received a $600 Research Travel Award to be used next year in support of their ongoing dissertation efforts. Dana A. Freiburger received a $600 Conference Presentation …
October 2004 On Oct. 12, 2004, PBS aired a NOVA documentary based on Professor Judith Leavitt’s book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. This documentary, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America,” features commentary by Leavitt. It’s now available on DVD.