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
