May 2014 Brad Moore has received a two-year American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Postdoctoral Fellowship to work as the Research and Partnerships Manager at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City. Lenox Hill is a 120-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated human services—social, educational, legal, health, …
May 2014 Pablo Gomez’s 2013 article, “The Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth-century Black Spanish Caribbean,” published in Social History of Medicine has won the 2014 Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize for articles published in 2012 and 2013. This prize is a biennial prize that recognizes the best article in the field of …
January 24 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Dana Freiburger, UW–Madison “Cattell’s Catholics: Who were these American Men of Science?” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January 31 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Michael D. Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Director, Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University “Lysenko Unemployed, 1965-1976.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial January …
April 2014 The Society for French Historical Studies has awarded Richard C. Keller the William Koren Prize for his article, “Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Form in the 2003 Paris Heat Wave Disaster,” published in French Historical Studies 36, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 299-330. The Koren prize is awarded annually for an outstanding journal …
April 2014 Scott Prinster has received a 2014 Letters & Sciences Teaching Fellow Award for his outstanding work as an experienced teaching assistant. He has taught for seven semesters in the History of Science department, as well as teaching courses in astronomy and global studies. The College of Letters & Sciences selects 15 Fellows each …
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) …
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 …
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 …