September 6 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 13 (Friday) at Noon Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech “History of Science & Technology and Public Policy: Reflections on an Academic’s Attempt to Influence the Real World.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 20 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Mike Shank, UW–Madison …
October 2013 Melissa Charenko’s short film, 24-7B, will premiere on Friday, November 1, 2013, the opening night of the 2013 Tales From Planet Earth biennial film festival. Charenko, a history of science graduate student, produced this three minute film as part of a collaborative class on environmental filmmaking co-taught this semester by UW History of …
August 2013 Carl Bialik, ‘The Numbers Guy’ columnist for the Wall Street Journal, interviewed Professor Rick Keller as part of his 17 August 2013 blog posting titled “The Challenge of Counting Heat-Wave Deaths.” Click ‘here’ to read Bialik’s blog which offers access to a longer 16 August print article titled “Death Tolls From Summer Heat …
May 2013 During the recent American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) meeting held in Atlanta, GA, third-year graduate student Vicki Fama’s received an Honorable Mention in the Shryock Medal Essay Contest for her essay “Heroes and Villains: Displaying and Viewing Bodies at the United States Army Medical Museum, 1862-1888.” Named for Richard Harrison …
May 2013 History of Science doctoral candidate and longtime ILS teaching assistant Lynnette Regouby has been awarded the ILS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the current school year. Congratulations to Lynnette!
January 25 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Organizational Meeting Location: 204 Bradley Memorial February 1 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Lynnette Regouby, James Barnes, and Nick Jacobson, UW–Madison Title: “Globalizing the History of Science Survey.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial February 8 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Scott Prinster, UW–Madison Title: “The Queen Dethroned? The Shifting …
February 2013 On 15-16 February 2013, over 60 friends and colleagues of Ronald L. Numbers participated in a conference: Science without God: Religion, Naturalism and the Sciences: A Conference to Honour Ronald L. Numbers. Organized by Peter Harrison and Jon Roberts and hosted by Michael Ruse at Florida State University, the conference goal was to …
February 2013 The Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST), a division under the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, has selected Mitch Aso’s dissertation, Forests without birds: A history of ecology and health on the rubber plantations of French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1954, for a Young Scholars Prize. The prize is …
December 2012 Doctoral candidate Scott Prinster has received a Vilas Research Travel Grant in support of his dissertation that explores the scientific critique of religious authority as higher biblical criticism spread in the United States. He will use this grant for travel to Biola University in Los Angeles to study how evangelical Christians in the …
September 7 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 7 (Friday) at 3:00 pm Colloquium: Megan Raby, UW–Madison Title: “Taming ‘Jungle Island:’ The transformation of Barro Colorado Island into a field station for tropical biology.” Location: 976 Memorial Library (Special Collections). September 14 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag: Rick …