News and Events
Bigfoot!
One of our many productive PhD graduates, Joshua Buhs, has a new book out called Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. Among other things, the book is about the relationship between science and pseudo-science, masculinity and nature, and consumerism and the media. Reviews can be found in the
Washington Post, Mail Tribune, Telegraph, and New York Times.
On-Going Events
HSSC Monday Workshop
Link to schedule of workshop presentations.
Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) Calendar
LInk to comprehensive calendar of events at area institutions.
Phi Beta Kappa inductees
On May 15, ninety-eight Penn students will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, including our very own
STSC Majors
Victoria Frings '08
David Reinecke '09
Daniel Ross '09
HSOC Majors
Lakshmi Sivarajan '09
Frederick Yoo '08
Graduate Student News
Our graduate students have had spectacular success in winning grants and fellowships, including winning five Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Dissertation Research Fellowships from the School of Arts and Sciences, a success rate of 100%.
Peter Collopy, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Pottruck Graduate Presidential Prize Fellowship
Erica Dwyer has been invited to participate in the 2009 Fulbright-Hays Zulu Group Project Abroad in South Africa for ten weeks of intensive Zulu language study.
Matthew Hersch, HSS/NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Science for the 2009-10 academic year.
Eric Hintz, SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Jessica Martucci, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Grant, Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality Grant, Pressman Fund Award
Emily Pawley, American Antiquarian Society/NEH long-term fellowship, Smithsonian fellowship, Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellowship
Joanna Radin, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship grant
Corinna Schlombs, IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History
Roger Turner,Guggenheim pre-doctoral fellowship (National Air and Space Museum), Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Research Grant (Pan American Airlines Historical Foundation)
Kristoffer Whitney, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship
Damon Yarnell, SAS Dissertation Research Fellowship, NSF funding for dissertation completion
Publications
Matt Hersch, “‘Calm, But Still Alert’: Marketing Stelazine to Disturbed America, 1958–1980” Pharmacy in History (AIHP).
____. “CHECKLIST: The Secret Life of Apollo’s ‘Fourth Crewmember,’” in Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism, edited by Martin Parker and David Bell (Blackwell).
____.“HIGH FASHION: The Women’s Undergarment Industry and the Foundations of American Spaceflight,” Fashion Theory
Eric S. Hintz, “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of
Duracell.” Technology and Culture 50, no. 1 (January 2009): 24-57. (Publication of Levinson Prize 2007 essay)
Jessica Martucci, “Negotiating Exclusion: MSM, Identity, and Blood Policy in the Age of AIDS,” Journal of the Social Studies of Science
Joanna Radin, “Bounding Nanotechnology: Deconstructing the Drexler-Smalley Debate.” Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
Roger Turner, “Laughing at the Weather? The Serious Business of Weather Cartoons,” History of Science Society Newsletter
Kristoffer Whitney, "Sun & Earth and the 'Green Economy': A Case Study in
Small-Business Innovation," Studies in Materials Innovation, Center for Contemporary History and Policy (Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2009).
Professor Ensmenger has been profiled in SAS Frontiers magazine. The article focuses on his recent research, and is titled "Doctors Without Modems? Technology Historian Nathan Ensmenger checks the pulse of the e-health revolution." You can also listen to an audio interview of Professor Ensmenger discussing the Science, Technology, and Society major, as well as his forthcoming book "The Computer Boys Take Over" (MIT Press)
Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008). New York Times Review
Rachel Meislin '09 has co-authored "Values, institutions and shifting policy paradigms: Expansion of the Israeli National Health Insurance Basket of Service" in Health Policy
Download Rachel's article
Jason Nagata, HSOC '08 is co-author of "Body mass index, socio-economicstatus and socio-behavioral practices among Tz'utujil Maya women" in Economics and Human Biology 7 (2009). Jason is currently studying at Oxford University before going to medical school, and will be a summer intern at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. Article link
Logan Hall renamed Claudia Cohen Hall
As of July 1, 2008, Logan Hall became Claudia Cohen Hall, in honor of the late Claudia Cohen '72, ex-wife of trustee Ronald O. Perelman who acquired naming rights with a $20 million dollar gift to Penn in 1995.
