The October 2017 Newsletter welcomes Harvard University as a new consortium member. The Consortium also welcomes its largest class of fellows and several new conveners for the working groups. The newletters also announces fellowships for 2018-19, a new public events series, October events at member institutions, updates on current and past fellows, and developments at members' collections.
The 53rd Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology (JAS-Bio) invites graduate students and recent graduates in all fields of the history of the life sciences, whose work ranges across all time periods, to submit proposals for the opportunity to present their research to experienced colleagues in an encouraging, informal setting.
Britton Chance's (1913-2010) papers, now open to researchers, make up the largest fully-processed collection at APS and features materials relating to Chance's pursuits in biochemistry, biophysics, and yachting.
This large collection holds material from the long-serving president of one of the most important American technology companies in the twentieth century.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome Harvard University as its newest member.
The American Philosophical Society invites applicants for the John C. Slater Fellowship in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
The additions to the University Archives collections include materials science and engineering records.
Alicia Puglionesi, Johns Hopkins University
2016 to 2017 NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle Smiley, Bryn Mawr
2016 to 2017 Dissertation Fellow
The papers of physicist Rose Le Dieu Mooney Slater (1902-1981) include 10.5 linear feet of correspondence, research and print material that document Mooney-Slater’s career as a professor, department chair, research physicist and accomplished crystallographer; concentrating on the structure of crystals and crystalline materials using X-ray diffraction.
