Department News for 2006
“New History of Science Faculty Associates”
August 2006
Three UW-Madison faculty have joined the department as affiliates: Rima Apple, professor emeritus, School of Human Ecology; Greg Downey, associate professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications and of Library and Information Studies; and John Rudolph, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction.
“Gregg Mitman co-PI on $3 million NSF Grant”
June 2006
Gregg Mitman helped write and is co-PI on a $3,000,000 NSF grant, "Vulnerability and Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: An Integrative Traineeship in Sustainability and the Global Environment."
“Mitman wins Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award for 2005”
April 2006
Gregg Mitman won the Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award for 2005 from the American Society for Environmental History for his April 2005 article “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History.” The award is given annually for the best article published in Environmental History.
“Selected Articles and Books”
Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine and Menopause in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Gregg Mitman, "Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature" Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, expanded edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added nearly 150 new pages to the revised edition of his classic work. The Financial Times selected the revised edition as a pick of the year.
Eric Schatzberg, "Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology Before 1930," Technology and Culture 47 (July 2006): 486-512.
Gregg Mitman, "Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming the Death of Nature" Isis 97 (2006): 496-504.
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, expanded edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ron added nearly 150 new pages to the revised edition of his classic work. The Financial Times selected the revised edition as a pick of the year.
Eric Schatzberg, "Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology Before 1930," Technology and Culture 47 (July 2006): 486-512.