News and Notes
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Summer 2011 Newsletter
August 4, 2011
The Summer 2011 Newsletter of the Center is now available.
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Fellows at the Center and Member Institutions 2011-2012
July 26, 2011
The Center offers both short- and long-term fellowships, as do several members of our consortium.
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Conference Support Competition 2011-2012
July 7, 2011
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science holds an annual competition for conferences and workshops on the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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Recent Press
May 2, 2011
Philadelphia's first city-wide science festival was the occasion for several news items of interest:
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2011-2012 Dissertation Fellows
April 15, 2011
The Center has awarded ten fellowships for dissertation research in area archives and libraries, as well as two fellowships for dissertation writing.
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Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation
April 8, 2011
Cameron Strang History, University of Texas at Austin 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the South
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Philadelphia Science Festival
March 23, 2011
The Philadephia Science Festival is a two-week community-wide celebration of science featuring lectures, deba
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Philadelphia Science Festival
March 23, 2011
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Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs
February 22, 2011
Dora Vargha History, Rutgers University 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Fellow Polio outbreaks in Cold War Hungary serve as exceptional events, through which domestic and international healt
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Lavoisier as Historian of Chemistry and Philosopher of Science
February 15, 2011
Nicholas Best History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University 2009-2010 Dissertation Research Fellow Antoine Lavoisier is already famous as the star of the chemical revolution, and muc