Department News for the Current Year
“Lynnette Regouby wins ILS Outstanding TA Award”
May 2013
History of Science doctoral candidate and longtime ILS teaching assistant Lynnette Regouby has been awarded the ILS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the current school year. Congratulations to Lynnette!
“Mitch Aso to be awarded DHST Young Scholars Prize”
February 2013
The Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST), a division under the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, has selected Mitch Aso's dissertation, Forests without birds: A history of ecology and health on the rubber plantations of French colonial Vietnam, 1858-1954, for a Young Scholars Prize. The prize is awarded every four years to up to five historians of science and technology for outstanding doctoral dissertations completed within last four years. Mitch's prize, which will be awarded at the IUHPS Congress in Manchester in July 2013, consists of a certificate, assistance with travel and accommodation, and a waiver of registration fees.
Aso received his Ph.D. in 2011 and is now an Assistant Professor in the History Department at SUNY-Albany. Nicely done Mitch!
Aso received his Ph.D. in 2011 and is now an Assistant Professor in the History Department at SUNY-Albany. Nicely done Mitch!
“Conference Honoring Ronald L. Numbers”
February 2013
On 15-16 February 2013, over 60 friends and colleagues of Ronald L. Numbers participated in a conference: Science without God: Religion, Naturalism and the Sciences: A Conference to Honour Ronald L. Numbers. Organized by Peter Harrison and Jon Roberts and hosted by Michael Ruse at Florida State University, the conference goal was to test the conventional wisdom about the relationship between science, naturalism, and religion. Seventeen pre-distributed papers ranging from Ancient Natural Philosophy to 19th and 20th century Biology were read with feedback provided by assigned commentators and the audience.
It was a splendid two-day affair that included a fish fry (including unlimited local oysters) on the Saturday at the Ruse's home. A further aim of the gathering is to publish an edited collection of the talks under the guidance of Harrison and Roberts.
Now emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Numbers has several book projects underway as well as guiding three graduate students in their doctoral studies.
It was a splendid two-day affair that included a fish fry (including unlimited local oysters) on the Saturday at the Ruse's home. A further aim of the gathering is to publish an edited collection of the talks under the guidance of Harrison and Roberts.
Now emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Numbers has several book projects underway as well as guiding three graduate students in their doctoral studies.