January 2012 Doctoral Candidate Bridget Collins has received a Vilas Travel Grant and a Holtz Center Travel Grant to support two weeks of research at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, on the Children’s Bureau records. Happy travels Bridget!
December 2011 Congratulations to Anna Zeide who has received a University Exceptional Service Award. This award recognizes outstanding graduate student teaching assistants who, in addition to their regular teaching duties, perform exceptional service related to the education mission of their departments in the form of volunteerism, committee work, mentoring, and more. Anna’s considerable service includes: …
September 2 (Friday) at Noon Brown Bag Introductions and Planning Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 9 (Friday) at Noon Victoria Nourse, UW–Madison Law School “Progressive Science: The Eugenic Revival of the 1930s.” Location: 204 Bradley Memorial September 16 (Friday) at Noon Rick Keller, UW–Madison “Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present” – An Introduction to the …
November 2011 Katie Robinson, a M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the History of Science, has received a 2011-2012 UW–Madison Population Health Dissertation Grant provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program. Robinson plans to use this grant toward her dissertation which explores the history of the Fat Acceptance Movement and its struggles with …
November 2011 Professor Richard Staley has received a six month scholar-in-residence grant from the Deutsches Museum, Munich, in support of his ongoing project on physics and anthropology.
October 2011 Professor Gregg Mitman has been named Vilas Professor, one of the highest honors for established UW faculty. Vilas Professorships, created “for the advancement of learning,” recognize proven research ability and unusual qualifications and promise. The individual must have contributed significantly to the research mission of the University and be widely recognized both nationally …
October 2011 In the Winter of 2012, Ronald L. Numbers will be Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre for the United States. He will teach an undergraduate/graduate course on “Science, Medicine, Religion in America” in the Department for the Study of Religion from January 31 – February 3, 2012 and February 28 – …
June 2011 Congratulations to Walt Schalick, MD, PhD, who has accepted a clinical position with the Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled, effective June 20, 2011.
June 2011 Wrestling With Nature: A Mini-Conference in Honor of David Lindberg took place on June 4, 2011, at the Pyle Center on the UW–Madison campus. Eight talks appeared on the day’s schedule – seven presented by PhD students guided by Lindberg – followed by five speakers who each described “The Lives of David Lindberg.” …
June 2011 Doctoral candidate Kathleen Robinson received a UW Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies travel grant in support of her planned research work at the Dodd Research Center in Storrs, CT, and the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, MA, to examine archival materials in the Mayer Collection of Fat Liberation. Congrats Katie!