News & Events
HARVARD / MIT SUBWAY SERIES presents
Rachel Prentice
Assistant Professor,
Science & Technology Studies
Cornell University
"Embodying Control
in the Operating Room"
Tuesday, November 23
4:00pm
MIT - Building E51-095
70 Memorial Drive
The Erasmus Lectures 2009
Descartes’ Laboratory.
Dutch Origins of Modern Science & Philosophy
By Professor Klaas van Berkel
Erasmus Lecturer on the History & Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders, 2009
Monday November 2: “Creating the Laboratory: The Dutch Republic”
Comments: Professor Ann Blair (History)
Monday November 9: “Living in the Laboratory: Descartes & the Dutch”
Comments: Professor Alison Simmons (Philosophy)
Monday November 16: “Exporting the Laboratory: Cartesianism & the early Enlightenment”
Comments: Professor Heidi Voskuhl (History of Science)
Science Center Rm 469 • 1 Oxford Street
4-6:00pm • Open to the public
NOTE: Beginning Friday, November 6, Klaas van Berkel will offer a related master class on ‘The Relevance of Dutch History of Science’.
For more information: kberkel@fas.harvard.edu
History & Science Concentration Open House
Monday,
November 9
12:00-1:30pm
Science Center 469
The History and Science Concentration will host an open house for students interested in History and Science. Please join us to chat with current faculty and students about the concentration.
Pizza will be served!!
SYNTHESIS
Announcing the arrival of an exciting new publishing opportunity for undergraduates in the history of science.
A group of Harvard students has created a new journal called Synthesis. They solicit submissions from history and history of science departments all across the country, including Cornell, Stanford, Princeton, U.C Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, the University of Pennsylvania, and others. Synthesis aims not only to provide an exciting chance for undergraduates to be published, but also to unite students interested in the history of science nationwide.
Questions, comments may be directed to harvardsynthesis at gmail.com.
Download Issue No. 1 of SYNTHESIS
The 2009 Robert & Maurine Rothschild Lecture
featuring
Caroline Bynum
Professor of Western European Middle Ages,
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton University
Delivered on May 5, 2009
Download MP3 Audio Files of the Lecture:
Bynum Lecture, Part 1 (45 min.)
Bynum Lecture, Part 2 (41 min.)
Department Calendar
News
November 2, 2009
Greene Receives Carson Prize for Book
Professor Jeremy Greene has been awarded the Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Study of Science for his book, Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). The prize is awarded annually for a book-length work of social or political relevance in the area of science and technology studies.
July 2, 2009
CHSI Exhibit in The Harvard Gazette
An article about the current CHSI exhibit Patent Republic appeared in the July 2 issue of the Harvard Gazette. Curator Jean-Francois Gauvin discusses many of the ins & outs, and "red tape" involved in the 19th century American patent process.
June 11, 2009
Harrington Honored With Cabot Fellowship
History of Science Professor & current Department Chair Anne Harrington has been named a 2009 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, along with five other colleagues from disciplines representing a cross section of FAS.
"The annual award recognizes tenured faculty members for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history, or art, broadly conceived."
“The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is delighted to recognize these eminent scholars, whose innovative research has forged new paths in their respective fields,” said Michael D. Smith, dean of FAS. “We congratulate them for their outstanding accomplishments and commend them for their many contributions to the Harvard community, not only as scholars but also as teachers and mentors.”
Article from the Harvard Gazzette:
"Six faculty named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows"
May 18, 2009
History of Science Concentrators Honored with 2009 Hoopes Prizes
Three History of Science concentrators have received the distinguished Hoopes Prize for outstanding academic research work. The prize comes with an extensive application process requiring a nomination from a faculty member and a review by a prize committee who award the prize based on the breadth and impact of the nominated works (typically senior theses).
The Hoopes prize was created from the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly works or research. The fund provides undergraduate prizes to be given for the purpose of “promoting, improving and enhancing the quality of education…in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the Faculty.” An “incidental objective or purpose” of the fund is to “promote excellence in the art of teaching.” Awards are therefore given to the members of the Faculty or teaching staff who have both supervised and nominated the prize-winning work of undergraduates.
History and Science concentrators receiving prizes for 2009 are:
Julie Duncan, for her submission entitled "Faith Displayed as Science: The Role of the 'Creation Museum' in the Modern American Creationist Movement" - nominated by Professor Janet Browne
James Miller, for his submission entitled "Defining Herpes: Pharmaceuticals, Physicians, and Patients in the Post-Antiviral Era" - nominated by Dr. Scott Podolsky
Wangui Muigai, for her submission entitled "'The New Emancipation': Birth Control in the Black Community and the Story of the Harlem Branch Birth Control Clinic" - nominated by Dean Evelynn Hammonds
Hearty congratulations to this stellar trio!
Article from the Harvard Crimson, “Recipients of Hoopes Prize Announced”
Complete list of 2009 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners
