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.
