Vol. 38, No. 4, October 2009
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Lawrence Badash (University of California, Santa Barbara, emeritus) recently published A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s (MIT Press). Badash maps the rise and fall of the science of nuclear winter, examining research activity, the popularization of the concept, and the Reagan-era politics that combined to influence policy and public opinion.
James R. Fleming’s response to Bjørn Lomborg’s “Climate engineering: Its cheap and effective” in The New Security Beat can be found at
http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2009/08/guest-contributor-james-r-fleming.html.
Nancy Nersessian has been elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society. She has also received a grant from the National Science Foundation REESE Program: “Becoming a 21st Century Scientist: Cognitive practices, identity formation and learning in integrative systems biology.”
A retirement symposium was held 17 April 2009 at the University of Minnesota in honor of Alan Shapiro. Speakers recognized Alan as a leading scholar on Newton’s optics, an influential and effective teacher, and thoughtful advisor and friend. His leadership includes twice serving on the Council of HSS, as program chair, and as head of the Committee on Honors and Prizes. He also has had notable involvement with the Midwest Junto, the AAAS, and Sigma Xi. Although retired, Alan remains active on the editorial board of five journals and is Vice President of the International Academy for the History of Science.
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In Budapest
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HSS Fellowship in the History of Space Science
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In the Service of
Galileo’s Ghost
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Historians and Contemporary
Anti-evolutionism
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Making Visible Embryos: Making a Virtual Exhibition
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“Lusty Ladies or Victorian
Victims?”
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Lone Star Historians of
Science
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Centaurus: A New Face at a Respected Journal
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World Congress of
Environmental History
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Jobs, Conferences, Grants
The History of Science Society would like to congratulate members who won ACLS fellowships in 2009.
- Michael C. Carhart, Old Dominion University
- Alex Csiszar, Harvard University
- Peter L. Galison, Harvard University
- Monica H. Green, Arizona State University
- Jen Hill, Dartmouth College
- Susan Lamb, Johns Hopkins University
- Tara E. Nummedal, Brown University
- Emily J. Pawley, University of Pennsylvania
- Chitra Ramalingam, Harvard University
- Justin Sytsma, University of Pittsburgh
- Matthew C. Underwood, Harvard University
- Theresa Marie Ventura, Columbia University
- Alex Wellerstein, Harvard University
Further information: http://www.acls.org/fellows/new.
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