News and Notes
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2010-2011 Fellowships
November 2, 2009
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science invites applications
for one- or two-month Dissertation Research Fellowships and nine-month -
Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore and Their Contemporaries
October 6, 2009
Karin Ekholm, Indiana University
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Hidden Waters: Groundwater Histories of Iran and the Mediterranean
September 21, 2009
Abigail Schade, Columbia University
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow -
Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1820-1930
September 10, 2009
Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Energy Landscapes: Coal Canals, Oil Pipelines, and Electricity Transmission Wires in the American mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930
September 8, 2009
Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950
June 22, 2009
Tina Kibbe, State University of New York at Buffalo
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century Natural History
June 11, 2009
Matthew Laubacher, Arizona State University
2008 to 2009 Research Fellow -
Vertebrate Paleontology and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1894-1944
February 11, 2009
Miranda Paton, Cornell University
2007 to 2008 Research Fellow -
Fellowship Applications for 2009-2010
January 8, 2009
The Center invites applications for one- or two-month Dissertation Research Fellowships and nine-month Dissertation Writing Fellowships. The application deadline is 11 February 2009.
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Scientists and the Ethics of U.S. Weapons Research, 1957-1991
January 6, 2009
Sarah Bridger Columbia University My dissertation covers the political arguments among scientists about Cold War weapons, scientists’ advice to politicians and military planners, and the per