September 2015 Emer Lucey, a third-year graduate student, recently won third place for best paper at the Health History in Action Conference held August 26-28 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Emer’s paper, “Ethereal Beauty: The Aestheticization of Autism,” was presented at the Postgraduate Career Development Workshop and Conference organized by the Society …
August 2015 Nicole Nelson from the Department of the History of Science is one of four leaders coordinating the “Disclosing/Enclosing: The Paradoxes of Information Flow in Knowledge Communities” thematic cluster funded by the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. This cluster is designed to build connections across disciplines and forge new intellectual directions in …
July 2015 Three department graduate students attended the recent Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop last month at Notre Dame University: Jamie Brannon, Dana Freiburger, and Scott Trigg. Jamie presented a talk, “Teaching Astronomy in Medieval Western Europe: Dragmaticon vs De Sphaera,” which fit well with workshop’s theme of Astronomy and Authority while Scott and Dana …
July 2015 “In the Shadow of Ebola,” a 25-minute film by Professor Gregg Mitman, Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies, aired June 22, 2015, on PBS Independent Lens and is now available online for viewing – go to the PBS Independent Lens web site to watch …
May 2015 Doctoral candidate Vicki Fama Daniel has been awarded an H-31 Research Grant from the American Association for the History of Nursing. This pre-doctoral grant is designed to encourage and support graduate training and historical research to students at the Masters and Doctoral levels and provides $2,000 in funding. Vicki will use this grant …
January 23 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Welcome to Spring Semester! BB organization and scheduling. Special Guest: Jay Malone, History of Science Society Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 30 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Dana Freiburger, UW–Madison Developing new courses in history of science Location: 204 Bradley Memorial February 6 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: …
March 2015 2015 marks the 650th birthday of the University of Vienna. The foundation was celebrated by a host of events, including an exhibition of 14th-15thC manuscripts and artifacts in the splendid Prunksaal of the Austrian National Library, one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Mike Shank was the only non-European contributor to …
March 2015 Graduate student Scott Prinster will present “Finches in the Sanctuary: Evolutionary Thought in a Religious World” on Thursday, March 12, as part of the UW Evolution Seminar Series. The weekly seminars are held at noon in Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360. For more information about the series, see the full semester’s schedule at http://www.evolution.wisc.edu/node/30.
March 2015 The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has conferred its 2015 Friend of Darwin Award on Emeritus Professor Ronald L. Numbers, an award “presented annually to a select few whose efforts to support NCSE and advance its goal of defending the teaching of evolution and climate science have been truly outstanding.” In granting …
January 2015 The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) has awarded Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez an Honorable Mention for the Vanderwood Prize for his 2013 Social History of Medicine article “The Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth-century Black Spanish Caribbean.” The Vanderwood Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished article on any significant …