February 2010 History of Science doctoral candidates Shannon Withycombe and Bridget Collins are two of the fifteen University of Wisconsin–Madison teaching assistants to receive awards for their contributions to learning on campus. At a ceremony scheduled for March 2, Shannon will receive a Capstone Award while Bridget will be presented with an Early Excellence Award.
February 2010 Dayle B. DeLancey has been named as one of the first two Centennial Scholars at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The Centennial Scholars Program was created to develop faculty whose diversity enhances the quality of education and research at the school, according to Patricia Kokotailo, MD, MPH, associate …
September 4 (Friday) at Noon Judy Kaplan, UW–Madison Introductions followed by a brown bag talk by Judy, topic “The Long Rangers: pre-historical linguistics from Moscow to Michigan.” September 11 (Friday) at Noon Sarah Pfatteicher, UW–Madison “Lessons Amid the Rubble: 8 Years After the World Trade Center.” September 18 (Friday) at Noon “Discussion – Michael Pollan’s …
October 2009 Lynn Nyhart has won the 2009 Susan E. Abrams Prize for the best book in the history of science published by the University of Chicago Press in the previous two years, for her book Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Nyhart has also …
August 2009 The department welcomes Dayle B. DeLancey to the department. Her interests and research include 19th- and 20th-c. history and ethics of African-American health experiences, U.S. public health (esp. vaccination and disaster relief campaigns), medical technologies (esp. vaccines and pharmaceuticals), the public understanding of medicine (esp. fears, myths, and rumors), and race and gender …
April 2009 History/History of Science doctoral candidate Brad Moore has received a Fulbright-IIE grant in support of a dissertation on public health in the former Czechoslovakia (tentatively titled “Healthy Comrades: The Stalinization of Public Health in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1948-1956”). He plans to begin his year of overseas research in the summer of 2009.
April 2009 History/History of Science doctoral candidate and ILS TA Kellen Backer received an ILS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Congratulations to Kellen on a job well done!
March 2009 Walt Schalick and Monica Green (Arizona State University) have received a grant from the NEH for “Disease in the Middle Ages,” a seminar planned for Summer 2009 at the Wellcome Centre in London.
April 2009 Lynn K. Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Richard Staley, Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
September 5 (Friday) at Noon Introductions and Planning September 12 (Friday) at Noon James Secord, Cambridge “Paper Comets: Prophecy, Science and the End of the World in the Nineteenth-century Press.” September 15 (Monday) at 4:00 pm Colloquium: Harriet Ritvo, MIT “The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and the Victorian Environment.” co-sponsored with the Center for …