News and Events
Ongoing Events
The Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) posts a comprehensive list of events at member and area institutions.
All Summer 2008 courses are offered through the College of General Studies
HSS End of Year Party on April 28th
Cowan's Ideas-in-Action Course Shapes Congressional Action
In the fall semester, 2007, Professor Cowan offered STSC 428, Genetics and Social Policy, as an Ideas-in-Action course. She and her students researched and wrote a position paper for Congressman Joseph Sestak on the Genetic Information Non Discrimination Act (GINA) of 2007. The paper is available at GINA Position Paper
Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Aaron Cohen '08, Jessica Ho '09, and Jason Nagata '08!
News of Recent PhDs
Joy Rohde has been named Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 2008-2010.
Hilary Smith has accepted a tenure-track postion as Assistant Professor in the History and Political Science Department at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, beginning Fall 2008.
Dominique Tobbell will be the Program Manager in Biotechnology, History, and Policy in the Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage
Foundation, beginning summer 2008.
Faculty News
The School of Arts and Sciences has awarded David Barnes a Weiler Faculty Research Fellowship to continue his project on the Lazaretto quarantine station and hospital for immigrants, established near Philadelphia on the Delaware in 1799.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Sociology of Science has been awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for the Social Study of Science. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to the field. Professor Emeritus Thomas P. Hughes won the Bernal Prize in 1990; the list of previous winners includes Thomas S. Kuhn, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Sheila Jasanoff, Steven Shapin, Donald Mackenzie and Wiebe Bijker. [See http://www.4sonline.org/bernal.htm for more on the Bernal Prize]
Read a glowing review of A New History of Anthropology, edited by Henrika Kuklick, in the Times Higher Education Supplement at Review
Jonathan Moreno has been awarded the Benjamin Rush Medal for 2008 at the College of William & Mary. Past recipients have included Drs. Howard and Georgianna Jones, Founders of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine; former Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker; Dr. David Kessler, former FTC Commissioner and Dean of the University of California Medical School; and Professors Tom Beauchamp and James Childress.
Fred Quivik is being honored by the volunteers of the Montana Historical Society who named “The Tragic Montana Career of Dr. D. E. Salmon" published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History 57 (Spring 2007), their favorite article of the year.
Mary Summers has co-authored "Service-Learning with a Food Stamp Enrollment Camapign: Community and Student Benefits" in the spring issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning with Judith Porter of Bryn Mawr, Suzanne Toton of Villanova, and Hillary Aisenstein of the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development. Article
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.
Undergraduate News
Sabrina Aggarwal '08 has won the prestigious Wellstone Fellowship. Established to honor the memory of the late Senator Paul D. Wellstone, this fellowship aims expand the pool of talented social justice advocates. This is a salaried position at the Families USA office in Washington, DC that offers a year of hands-on experience as a fellow.
Aaron Cohen '08 has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He will be attending medical school next year here at Penn.
Ella Dutton '08 will be a Research Assistant at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago for Dr. Mark Siegler.
Josh Farhadian '08 will be attending Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Kylie Gattinella '08 has accepted a full-time position in Investment Management at Morgan Stanley in Manhattan.
Jessica Ho '09 has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Alexandra Malebranche '08 is attending Columbia Dental School in the fall.
Jason Nagata '08 has won a Thouron Fellowship, which provides one to two years of tuition fees plus a living allowance/ travel stipend for a student to pursue a degree program or its equivalent at a British educational institution. Jason has also been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Laura Pang '09 will intern this summer at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
Katie Simon '08 will be a consultant/researcher in the civil government sector of SRA International. This company, which has contracts with government agencies such as the Library of Congress, FDA, NIH, and USAID, aims to help them take advantage of new technologies and assist them in identifying new and/or improved strategies for providing high quality service to the public.
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.
