News and Notes
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CFA: Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship
June 6, 2024
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives invites applications for fellowships to conduct research in its collections.
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Brown University Joins the Consortium
June 5, 2024
We are delighted to welcome Brown as the Consortium's newest member.
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Electric Archipelago: Power Politics in the Caribbean
May 15, 2024
Consortium NEH Fellow Chelsea Schields explores the legacies of colonialism in Caribbean electrical systems.
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Sweet Captivity: A History of Primate Science from Cuba to the United States
May 1, 2024
Consortium NEH Fellow Catherine Mas uncovers the gender history and cultural history of early primatology.
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Smithsonian Institution CFP: Sports Technology and Innovation Symposium
April 30, 2024
In Game Changer (2017), Rayvon Fouché argued that modern sports have been radically transformed by scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine.
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Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine: A History of Surgery
April 26, 2024
The Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that our next six-week course, A History of Surgery, will meet Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00 pm, May 1-June 5. The course will be
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Propose a New Working Group
February 28, 2024
The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine. The deadline for proposals is May 1.
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Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and the Making of the Life Sciences in China, 1940-1980
January 24, 2024
How did lab animals become "sentient drug factories" with significant influence over the history of health and medicine in China? Read about Peter Braden's research examining the multispecies history of science in modern China.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources)
January 16, 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources) offers advertisements from health sciences journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007.
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Harvesting Diversity: Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Transformation of the Green Revolution, 1950–2000
January 11, 2024
Consortium Fellow Leo Chu examines the tensions between development and sustainability in Taiwan's Green Revolution.