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 …
On July 21, 2013, Thongchai Winichakul was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio’s show, University of the Air. The topic of the show was “Thailand: Coping with a Troubled Past”. A complete list of past shows can be found on the University of the Air’s Archive Page.
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (University of Chicago Press), has been awarded the 2013 Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Book Award for the best book in American intellectual history published in 2012! Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book also received the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal …
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 …