Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2013
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Why Did HSS Conduct A Climate Survey?
We want to ensure that people feel welcome at the annual meeting regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, disciplinary affiliation, or type of scholarly position. And we believe that a climate in which more people feel welcome will improve the meetings for everyone, bringing in new perspectives and experiences. We lacked basic demographic information on who was and who was not attending the conference, and we wanted to explore ways to get more people to attend.
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Notes from the Inside
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Medical Traditions: An Emerging Discipline
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Article: The Past, Present, and Future of a Treasure Trove
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"Grandma got STEM"
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Article: Lessons from Uneasy Careers…
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Why Did HSS Conduct A Climate Survey?
Notes from the Inside
Personal welcome to Jessica Pfeifer, PSA's new Secretary/Treasurer and farewell to Gary Hardcastle.
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Medical Traditions: An Emerging Discipline
Building on the decade-long research activity by Alain Touwaide, the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions was created in September 2007 by Touwaide in collaboration with anthropologist Emanuela Appetiti to host, foster and promote the study of medical traditions. Although it originally focused on the Mediterranean traditions because of Touwaide's own research, it rapidly expanded the scope of its activity and is gradually including the Ethiopian, Chinese, and Ayurvedic traditions.
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The Past, Present, and Future of a Treasure Trove: AIP's Niels Bohr Library, Archive, and Center for History of Physics
This is the reprint of the talk Professor Holton gave on 24 September 2012 at the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in celebration of the 50th year of the founding of the Niels Bohr Library.
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"Grandma got STEM" celebrates women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Rachel Levy, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, found herself tired of hearing people try to teach students to speak accessibly about science, technology, and math by suggesting they should "explain it as if you were talking to your grandmother." While she knew that they likely meant "explain that in a compelling and clear way so that a person without a technical background could understand it," she was concerned by the profiling (female + maternal + age) such statements enacted.
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Lessons from a February 2013 AAAS Session on the 25th Anniversary of Uneasy Careers…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently held, as part of its Annual Meeting in February 2013 in Boston, a large format session marking the 25th anniversary of Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives, Women in Science, 1789–1979, (1987) the first collective volume in the history of women and gender in science.
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