The History of Science Society

Vol. 38, No. 4, October 2009
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Notes from the Inside

Updates from Jay Malone, the Society's Executive Director. This issue – moving and the Society's officers. Continued . . .

News

News from the History of Science.
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Member News

News from members of the History of Science Society.
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HSS Fellowship in the History of Space Science

The History of Science Society Fellowship in the History of Space Science, supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) History Division, funds a nine-month research project that is related to any aspect of the history of space science, from the earliest human interest in space to the present.
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In Budapest: The US Consortium for the Division of History of Science and Technology

This year more than 120 US scholars joined some 1,400 attendees at the XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology held in Budapest, 28 July to 2 August.
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In the Service of Galileo’s Ghost: A Short Guide to History, Assault, and Ideology

As part of her 2008-2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, Alice Dreger is writing a manuscript on science and identity politics in the Internet age. In this article, she discusses her experiences – good and bad, activist and academic – that led her to this project, and the threats to both history and science.
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Some Thoughts on Historians and Contemporary Anti-evolutionism

John Lynch looks at the contributions historians of science can make to the debate about intelligent design (ID). Continued . . .

Making Visible Embryos: Making a Virtual Exhibition

Tatjana Buklijas of the Liggins Institute discusses her new exhibition on the visualization of embryos.
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“Lusty Ladies or Victorian Victims?”

At a standing-room-only event during the 117th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) in Toronto this past August, audiences were treated to the extremely rare, and probably unprecedented, group appearance of Dr. Lawson Tait, Dr. James Jackson Putnam, Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Mr. Richard Paternoster.
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Lone Star Historians of Science

The Lone Star History of Science Group welcomed Angela Creager of Princeton University as the speaker at its 22nd annual meeting, held on 27 March 2009 at Rice University in Houston. Cyrus Mody hosted the meeting, which was sponsored by Rice’s Humanities Research Center.
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Centaurus, an International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects: A New Face at a Respected Journal

Ida Stamhuis discusses her new position as the editor of Centaurus.
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Report from the First World Congress of Environmental History

The first World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH) was held in August 2009 in Copenhagen. Titled “Local Livelihoods and Global Challenges: Understanding Human Interaction with the Environment,” WCEH included more than four hundred presentations with 560 participants from 45 countries.
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