Vol. 39, No.4, October 2010
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Notes from the Inside
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Zhu Kezhen and His Contributions to the History of Science in China
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Notes from the Inside
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News and Inquiries
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Member News
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Cold War Transformed Science: A Report on the Francis Bacon Conference at Cal Tech
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Conversing in a Cyberspace Community: The Growth of
HPS Blogging
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Multiple Ways to Salvation: Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments
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Jobs, Conferences, Grants
Greetings from Notre Dame!
We have landed at the University of Notre Dame du Lac…for the most part. The Executive Office currently occupies a temporary space in the Hesburgh Library, in room 1201, until our rooms in Geddes Hall become available later this year. For those wishing to contact us, the address at Geddes Hall (on our website and in the Newsletter), as well as our phone number, will work for our current location. We plan to move into our new space on 6 December and will then transfer the remaining files from Florida to Notre Dame. The transition has been smoothed considerably by the helpful people at Notre Dame, so much so that when my son and I boarded the elevator in the library recently and bumped into Father Hesburgh (the legendary president emeritus of Notre Dame), who still maintains an office on the floor above us, we were able to answer his question of “How are we treating you?” with “Quite well.”
Because the annual meeting is nigh, we have tried to move quickly in setting up the office. I have hired a new Society Coordinator, Greg Macklem (see the Newsletter announcement about Greg) to succeed Virginia Hessels as the “person who wears all the hats.” Virginia was kind enough to spend a weekend here in South Bend recently and to show Greg the many details of the job. Two graduate students have also joined us: John Cirilli (history of science) and Manuela Fernández Pinto (philosophy of science). Manuela has been coordinating the travel grants and volunteers for the conference, and John has already mastered web postings and is helping to proofread the Newsletter, the conference program and other publications. We are lucky to be able to draw on the talents of Greg, Manuela, and John, a happy byproduct of the flourishing HPS program here at Notre Dame. I experienced this vibrancy when I attended the first colloquium of the semester (the students had chosen to focus on Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact) and was surrounded by 30 faculty, students, and friends of the discipline, still another sign of the deep interest here in the history and philosophy of science.
We are adjusting to our move from Florida to the Upper Midwest. Even though Autumn has not yet arrived as I write this, the trees are beginning to show color and, for the first time in their lives, I sent my children to school in September wearing jackets, a harbinger of the winter to come. I am eager to begin this new chapter in HSS’s future.
Thank you for your membership in the HSS.
- Jay Malone
HSS Executive Director