Becca Jackson has won the 2023 Maurice Daumas Prize!
The Department would like to Congratulate Becca Jackson for receiving the 2023 Maurice Daumas Prize!
Becca Jackson has been offered a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Becca Jackson has been offered a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.
Evan Arnet, Associate Research Development Specialist
Evan Arnet, Associate Research Development Specialist working for Proposal Development Services at Indiana University, Bloomington campus.
Ali Mirza receives Two-year Fellowship in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry + Visiting Lectureship
Ali Mirza receives two-year Fellowship in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry + Visiting Lectureship in the Department of History at Amherst College.
Dan Li has accepted an Assistant Professor Position
Dan Li has accepted an Assistant Professor position in The Department of Philosophy at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
Meagan Allen has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position
Meagan Allen has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of History of Science and Technology.
Matthew Rodriguez receives a CAHI Graduate Research Travel Grant
Matthew Rodriguez receives a CAHI Graduate Research Travel Grant.
Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220-1292: Alchemy, Pharmacology and the Desire to Prolong Life
Congratulations to HPSC alumna Meagan Allen on her recent publication! Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human will be available as hardcopy on January 25, 2023.
HPSC alumna, Dr. Judy Johns Schloegel, has won the Edward Gerjuoy/John Michell Award
HPSC alumna, Dr. Judy Johns Schloegel, has won the 2022 Edward Gerjuoy/John Michell Independent Scholar Award from the History of Science Society.
Honorable Mention for the FHHMLS Graduate Student Essay Award goes to Becca Jackson!
Becca Jackson received “Honorable Mention” for the 2022 Graduate Student Essay Award, awarded by the Forum for the History of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHHMLS).
Ryan O'Loughlin has accepted an Assistant Professor position
Congratulations to HPSC graduate, Ryan O'Loughlin, who accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in Philosophy, at Queens College (CUNY) in the School of Social Sciences.
Congratulations to HPSC graduate, Lara Hu!
Xiaoqian (Lara) Hu has accepted a Lecturer position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Becca Jackson Announced as a 2022-23 Science History Institute Dissertation Fellow
Congratulations to Becca Jackson who received the Science History Institute 2022-2023 Beckman Center Dissertation Fellowhsip!
The 2022 Thoren Award Recipient is Ryan O'Loughlin!
Ryan O'Loughlin has been awarded this year's Victor E. Thoren Graduate Student Research Fellowship.
Professor Elisabeth Lloyd elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the United States, has elected Elisabeth A. Lloyd to its latest class of honorees.
Dan Li is this year's Sousa Award Recipient!
Congratulations to Dan Li, the recipient of this year's Mikal Lynn Sousa Award for Excellence in Graduate Scholarship!
Travel Awards for Two HPSC Graduate Students
Congratulations to Rebecca Jackson and Siyu Yao! Rebecca and Siyu have both been awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award. This award is intended to assist students with traveling to and presenting at major national and international conferences.
Renaissance Studies NOW, Co-Sponsored by History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
We will end the semester with a new instantiation of “Renaissance Studies NOW,” bringing together six of the best and brightest young scholars in Renaissance / early modern studies for intense workshops on teaching (11:00 a.m.) and scholarship (4:00 p.m.), followed by a festive reception.
Town and Country: Science in Urban and Rural Spaces, 2022 Graduate Student Conference
Urban and rural spaces both represent collections of people with distinct relationships to their natural and built environments and become formations of nature and culture that impact the science produced within these spaces or as objects of study. We wish to address how science and technology are produced in or for urban and rural environments and to address the divide, tension or continuity between these spaces of scientific research and knowledge production.
Spring 2022 Sawyer Seminar Conference
We are pleased to announce the program of the conference "Control in Historical and Systematic Perspectives," to be held March 2 - March 5, 2022 hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. The conference is part of a Sawyer Seminar, a year-long research institute funded by the USA-based Mellon Foundation.
Congratulations again to Meagan Allen!
Meagan Allen has won an international dissertation prize competition. It’s the Santorio Award for Excellence in Research, from the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance. It comes with a book contract, a conference invitation, a medal, and cash.
Fall 2021 Sawyer Seminar Conference
We are pleased to announce the program of the conference "Analysis and Synthesis in Historical and Systematic Perspectives," to be held September 29-October 2, 2021 at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). The conference is part of a Sawyer Seminar, a year-long research institute funded by the USA-based Mellon Foundation.
2021 ISHPSSB Interdisciplinary Organized Session Prize awarded to Becca Jackson and co-panelists for the session "Your genitals don’t lie!“ An escorted encounter with the history and philosophy of phallic and cervical measuring
Exploring the historical, philosophical, and social dimensions of phallometry and cervimetry, this session embodied the ISHPSSB ideal of integrative, dialogic, critical, cohesive, and convivial interdisciplinarity.
Rebecca Jackson named a 2021-2022 John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellow in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum announces its latest round of fellowship recipients.
Congratulations Meagan Allen!
Meagan Allen has accepted a two year postdoctoral position at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
Congratulations Professor Amit Hagar!
Professor Amit Hagar, as part of a team of scientists from the IU Medical School Regenerative Medicine Unit, is a co-Investigator on 3 years $1.8M Templeton Foundation grant on Postmortem Conatus.
Congratulations Professor Ann-Sophie Barwich!
Professor Ann-Sophie Barwich has been selected to receive a 2021 Trustees Teaching Award in the At-Large Tenure Track Faculty Category. We congratulate her on being chosen for this honor!
Congratulations to Professors William Newman and Jutta Schickore on their Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar!
Professors William Newman and Jutta Schickore bring prestigious Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar to Indiana University Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine.
Congratulations Meagan Allen on her grant!
Meagan Allen has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for her dissertation, "Roger Bacon's Medical Alchemy: Occult Remedies and the Prolongatio Vitae." This grant will allow her to visit medieval manuscripts containing Bacon's works on alchemy, pharmacology, and medical theory.
Congratulations Kate Grauvogel on completing her Ph.D.
Proposal Development Specialist at the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Congrats Kate!
Congratulations to Professor William Newman on his grant from National Endowment for the Humanities!
HPSC Professor William Newman has been awarded a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities for his work on the project “Digital approaches to the capture and analysis of watermarks using the manuscripts of Isaac Newton as a test case,”. Read more about this award here.
Congratulations to Professor Amit Hagar on his recent achievements!
Amit Hagar, together with former HPSC MA student Josua Aponte Serrano, who is now a PhD student in IU’s Intelligent Systems Engineering department, have published an article entitled “Run for your life – an integrated virtual tissue platform for incorporating exercise oncology into immunotherapy” in Clinical Immunology Immunotherapy. The article will appear on the cover of the journal.Together with former HPSC MA student Luma Melo who is finishing her PhD in Environmental Health, Hagar is also the co-author of a pre clinical study entitled “Effect of endurance exercise training on liver gene expression in male and female mice”, published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.A pre clinical exercise oncology study Hagar published (with Melo and Aponte Serrano) last year in BMC Cancer was recently recognized in a review article in Nature Metabolism for its novel contribution to our understanding of the effect of aerobic exercise on anti-tumor immune response.
Congratulations Meagan Allen on her publication!
Congratulations to HPSC graduate student Meagan Allen on her forthcoming publication. Her article, "Roger Bacon's Medical Alchemy and the Multiplication of Species" is due to be published in the book "Roger Bacon and Medieval Science and Philosophy: Studies in Honour of Jeremiah Hackett" (Nicola Polloni and Yael Kedar, eds. Oxford: Routledge) in Spring 2021.
Congratulations Professor Bill Newman!
Congratulations to HPSC Professor Bill Newman on his recent NSF grant! He received this grant for the project titled "Multidimensional Chronological Analysis of Manuscript Corpora Using Isaac Newton’s Chymical Papers as a Test Platform." to view a short summary of the project click here.To view an article about his watermark project click here.
Congratulations Meagan Allen!
Meagan has received a fellowship from the Science History Institute in Philadelphia for the 2020-21 academic year!
Edward Grant (1926-2020)
The Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine is sad to announce that Edward Grant, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, passed away on June 21, 2020. Dr. Grant's teaching career at Indiana University spans over thirty years, beginning in 1959. He was instrumental in starting the department later to be known as History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.
Ron Giere (1938-2020)
It is with sadness that the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine announces the loss of our former colleague Ron Giere, who passed away on May 20, 2020. Dr. Giere was a faculty member of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University Bloomington from 1966 until 1987. He then joined the faculty at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, returning to Bloomington after his retirement from there.
Congratulations to Professor Bill Newman and Professor Jutta Schickore!
Congratulations to our Professors Bill Newman and Jutta Schickore. They have received a grant from the Trustees of The Mellon Foundation to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Rigor: Control and Analysis in Historical and Systematic Perspectives".
Congratulations Professor Jordi Cat and Professor Jutta Schickore for their Themester Proposal!
Congratulations to our Professors Jordi Cat and Jutta Schickore, their Themester proposal, "Science and Democracy" has been selected to be funded by the College of Arts and Science!
Congratulations Lara Hu!
Lara Hu's paper “The World of Leibniz: Relationship Between Metaphysics and Physics” has been selected for presentation at HOPOS 2020.
Congratulations Jared Neumann!
Congratulations to Jared Neumann, a project that his course, HPSC X-102, will be doing has been selected to receive a Bicentennial Grant for The History of Science at IU Exhibition.
Congratulations Nicholas Zautra!
Nicholas has accepted a Lecturer position at the University of Guam.
Congratulations Luma Melo!
Luma has completed her M.A. Degree with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science & Medicine. She plans to complete her Ph.D. with the School of Public Health at IU.
Please join me in congratulating Christopher ChoGlueck
Chris has received a job offer from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
New Publicatons in Cancer Research by Amit Hagar
Amit Hagar has published, together with Luma Melo and others, two papers in BMC Cancer and American Journal of Cancer Research on the effects of endurance exercise on breast cancer.
Medical Humanities Workshop
Medical Humanities Workshop is on April 5, 2019 and sponsored by History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine and the Hutton Honors College.
Explore the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at IU’s Science Fest
Explore the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at IU’s Science Fest! Saturday, October 27, 2018
Application Deadline for 2019-20 is January 15, 2019
New HPSC Master's Track: Studies of Scientific Literacy and Responsible Research
3rd IU Graduate Student Conference Call for Paper Submission
Call for Paper Submission due on January 1, 2019
Congratulations Professor Amit Hagar! He has secured The Nathan Shock Center Pilot Award
Congratulations Professor Amit Hagar! He has secured The Nathan Shock Center Pilot Award for “Endurance Training and Alzheimer’s Disease Progression –Evidence and Mechanisms” in the total amount of $10,000 for the period of August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019.
Please join me in congratulating Sarah Reynolds
She has received a job offer from the University of Indianapolis!
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine awards NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Ashley Inglehart who was awarded an NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2018/19 by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Chemical Heritage Foundation/Science History Institute awards Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to our Graduate Student Kate Grauvogel who has been awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for 2018/19, from the Chemical Heritage Foundation/Science History Institute. This is in addition to her Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the NSF. For the past year she has been on a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences and a short-term Research Fellowship at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
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