News and Notes
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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
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William Smith, John Ewing, and the Teaching of Science in Early Philadelphia, 1754–1800
November 25, 2008
Nicholas Spicher Johns Hopkins University There was only one functioning college in British North America at the turn of the 18th century.
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The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950
November 12, 2008
Eric S. Hintz
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John Archibald Wheeler: A Study of Mentoring in Theoretical Physics
November 3, 2008
Terry M. Christensen Oregon State University John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) was among the giants of 20th-century physics.