The selected awards and honors listed here demonstrate the range of recognition received by faculty and graduate students within our department.
Recent Honors & Awards
Professor Jutta Schickore, Chairperson of the college's Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, examines how scientists validate their empirical results, not only today but also in the past. Recent areas of inquiry include, for instance, the history and structure of controlled experiments.
“My main interest is how scientific knowledge is validated,” she said. “What makes scientific research ‘good’? What makes an empirical result ‘good’? When do we consider research outcomes reliable? And I’m particularly interested in how scientists themselves see these questions. Basically, to put a label on it, I’m interested in scientists’ own philosophies, and I trace how scientists’ philosophies have developed and changed over the centuries.”
The International Academy of the History of Science has awarded its 2025 Alexandre Koyré Medal—the academy’s premier honor—to Roderick Weir Home, a 1967 graduate of Indiana Bloomington who earned his Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine within the College of Arts and Sciences. The medal recognizes a lifetime of distinguished achievement in the history of science and is granted once every other year to leading scholars in the field.
HPSC Alumna Rebecca Jackson and coauthor Michele Luchetti were recently recognized as runners-up for the IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science. Jackson and Luchetti's paper, "History and Philosophy of Measurement: Past, Present, and Future Integrations", provided an overview and introduction to integrated history and philosophy of measurement and outlined promising lines of inquiry for moving the subfield forward, including a call to globalize case studies of measurement, bring more attention to measurement issues in human sciences, expand the eras under examination, incorporate more tools from neighboring disciplines, and reexamine the boundary problem of what constitutes measurement.
Amit Hagar and a team of scientists from the IU School of Medicine's Regenerative Medicine Unit, have secured a 3 year (2021-2023) $1.8M Templeton Foundation grant to study Postmortem Conatus. Hagar also received 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.
Elisabeth Lloyd was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April of 2022. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the United States. In December of 2018, Lloyd was appointed as distinguished professor, the university’s highest academic rank for scholars and researchers.
Jutta Schickore was awarded a fellowship by Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study in 2017 to investigate the yet unexplored histories of experimental control(s) and of working scientists’ notions of causes, hypotheses, and complexity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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