News and Notes

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.

The Center's recent newsletter has news of our fellowships, events and collections.

Erika Lorraine Milam
Princeton University

The following collections have been acquired in 2011. For access to these uncataloged collections, contact Charles Greifenstein, Curator of Archives & Manuscripts, cgreifenstein@amphilsoc.org. Papers of biochemist and evolutionary biologist Walter M. Fitch (25 linear feet). Walter Monroe Fitch (1929-2011) was born in San Diego. He received both an AB in chemistry (1953) and a PhD in biochemistry (1958) from the University of California, Berkeley.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation acquired 50 linear feet of Hercules records from Ashland, Inc. in March 2012. The Hercules Powder Company was formed in 1882 by DuPont and the Laflin & Rand Powder Company. It was reorganized in 1912 and spun-off from DuPont as a result of a Federal Court decree which ordered DuPont to divest its interests in the explosives industry due to violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Wilmington based company was acquired by Ashland Inc. in 2008. Examples of items in the collection include:

Christopher Heaney, University of Texas at Austin
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow

Kuang-chi Hung, Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow

Meghan Crnic, University of Pennsylvania
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow