January 2015 We are sad to report the death of David C. Lindberg, Hilldale Professor Emeritus. Dave was an eminent scholar of medieval science, a former director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and a benefactor and formative figure in the life of the Department of the History of Science. He had been …
December 2014 Assistant Professor Nicole Nelson from History of Science and a trio of Medical History and Bioethics faculty – Linda Hogle, Pilar Ossorio, and Kris Saha – form the team leaders of an exciting thematic cluster titled Disclosing/Enclosing. This cluster is being funded by the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and intends …
December 2014 Professor Richard C. Keller, Department of Medical History and Bioethics and History of Science, has been named as associate dean of the UW–Madison Division of International Studies. Starting January 2015, Keller will serve as the chief faculty advisor to the vice provost/dean on a range of international issues and will assist with general …
September 5 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 12 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Michael Shank, History of Science, UW–Madison “Rethinking Mathematical Culture from Pythagoras to Cusa: David Albertson’s Mathematical Theologies (Oxford, 2014).” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 19 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mitra Sharafi, Law School, …
November 2014 Robert Siegfried, professor emeritus of the History of Science department and its first Ph.D. awardee, passed away on September 2, 2014. Siegfried taught in the department for many years after completing his doctorate in 1952 titled “A Study of Chemical Research Publications from the United States before 1880” under Robert Stauffer. Known for …
November 2014 Hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Pablo F. Gómez, History of Science and Medical History and Bioethics, who has received a 2014-15 “First Book Award” from the UW Center for the Humanities. Pablo’s book, titled Wondrous Bodies: The Early Modern Caribbean and the Imagination of the World, builds on his extensive research into the …
November 2014 Graduate student Melissa Charenko has received a research award from the Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholars program at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She plans to use this award next year to look at Margaret B. Davis’s papers at the University’s Archives for her dissertation on the history of pollen analysis and paleoecology. …
October 2014 The 58th Midwest Junto for the History of Science will take place on 17-19 April 2015 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Organized by the History of Science department, this meeting invites paper submissions on any aspect of the history and philosophy of science, technology, or medicine, and, per tradition, graduate students are especially …
October 2014 Soon-to-arrive Assistant Professor Catherine Jackson has been awarded the 2014 Liebig-Woehler-Freundschaftspreis, or Liebig-Wöhler-Friendship Award, by the Göttinger Chemischen Gesellschaft and Museum der Göttinger Chemie for her work in the history of organic chemistry, including the 2014 article “Synthetical Experiments and Alkaloid Analogues: Liebig, Hofmann and the origins of organic synthesis” in Historical Studies …
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 …