News and Notes

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, 2011-2012.

Rima Apple
University of Pennsylvania (School of Nursing) Lillian Sholtis Brunner Fellowship
Negotiating Public Health: A Study of the Lives of Public Health Nurses.

The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science holds an annual competition for conferences and workshops on the history of science, technology, and medicine. A typical meeting that would be appropriate for this competition would last not more than two days and involve not more than about fifteen speakers. Applications must be submitted by August 19, 2011.

Details and application form

Philadelphia's first city-wide science festival was the occasion for several news items of interest:

The Center has awarded ten fellowships for dissertation research in area archives and libraries, as well as two fellowships for dissertation writing. Dissertation Research Fellows will spend one or two months conducting research in the Philadelphia area. Dissertation Writing Fellows will spend nine months in residence at the Center and will present their work for the Regional Colloquium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWS
for 2010-2011

Cameron Strang, University of Texas at Austin
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow

Dora Vargha, Rutgers University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow

Nicholas Best, Indiana University
2009 to 2010 Research Fellow

Rebecca Miller, Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow

The Fall 2010 Newsletter of the Center is now available.