News and Notes

Andrew Berns (2009-2010 Research Fellow) is the Melville J. Kahn fellow this year at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Following his fellowship he will take up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina.

Terry Christensen (2007-2008 Research Fellow) is currently working on a biography of the theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.

Pennsylvania Saving Fund Society Howe and Lescaze Design Archive (Accession 2062) Although acquired in 1993, the blueprints, drawings, and photographs by Howe and Lescaze, designers of Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Saving Fund Society Building, are being conserved and will be available at the end of October. The PSFS Building, completed in 1932, is generally regarded as the first International Style building in the United States.

William Pahlmann Papers (Accession 2388) William Pahlmann defined mid-century modern in domestic and public interior designs. His papers, including many sample books and other artifacts from the working life of a designer in high demand, are now available at Hagley. This project was supported in part by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Herman Schroeder Papers (Accession 2468) H. E. Schroeder was a research chemist who spent most of his career with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.

Hendrick Manufacturing Company Business Records, 1861-1980 (Accession 2409). This collection, assembled by the last family president of the Hendrick Manufacturing Company, documents both the history of the company and E. E. Hendrick's career as a businessman and inventor. Orders for oil, stockholder notes, plant blueprints, insurance appraisals, letter books and issues of the employee magazine are included as well as Hendrick's patents for lubricating oil, refrigeration, metal perforation and sheet metal fabrication.

Katherine Arner, Johns Hopkins University
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow

Emily Merchant University of Michigan 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century My dissertation traces the history of demography and international population politics from 1920 through 2010, focusing on population projections as the interface between science and politics.

Aimee Slaughter, University of Minnesota
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science invites area scholars to join several topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields and of each others' works-in-progress. Each of the groups meets one evening each month at the Center. Please see www.pachs.net/groups for further information.

Please contact the conveners if you have not already done so and would like to participate in one or more of the groups.

Laura Igoe, Temple University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow

The Center offers both short- and long-term fellowships, as do several members of our consortium. Here is a partial list of scholars—most of whom are graduate students—who have received fellowships from the Center and its consortium partners to study history of science, technology or medicine during the current academic year, 2012-2013.