News and Events
Graduate Student News
Erica Dwyer won the SSRC DPDF (Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship) for summer 2008 in the field of Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy.
Eric Hintz has been awarded a Rovensky Fellowship for 2008-2009 (for dissertation work in American business or economic history). Eric was also named as an alternate for a SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Andi Johnson has been been awarded a Critical Teaching Fellowship for 2008-2009 by Penn's CWiC (Communication Within the Curriculum) program.
Chris Jones was awarded a Miller Center for Public Affairs Fellowship and a Teece Fellowship (summer funding) from SAS. Chris also won a Critical Writing Fellowship from the Critical Writing Program at Penn.
Emily Pawley has been awarded a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Joanna Radin has won a 2008 SAS Dean's Award for Distinquished Teaching by Graduate Students.
Perrin Selcer has been awarded an SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Damon Yarnell has been named a Lemelson Fellow at the Smithsonian, for the study of invention and innovation in American society. He has also received a Residential Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
HSS Alumni and Friends
In Memoriam - Philip Pauly, 57, professor of history at Rutgers University, on April 2nd from complications stemming from lymphoma. Trained in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University, Phil was a creative light in the history of biology and American science, his work showing that the history of biology was integral to American culture and life. His most recent book, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America (2008), breaks important new ground by illuminating how the history of horticulture bridges the fields of environmental history and the history of science, and brings together cultural and natural history as well.
Keith Wailoo, Ph.D. 1992, has just been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr.Wailoo is currently Martin Luther King Professor of History at Rutgers University. Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. Two other members of the Department of the History and Sociology of Science are also members of the IOM: Professor Emerita Rosemary Stevens (also formerly Dean of SAS) and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Jonathan Moreno.
