The 2025-2026 application cycle is now open for projects beginning in 2026 or 2027. Applications are due March 20, 2026.

Kristy Wilson Bowers explores the variability and utility of naming historical diseases.

Tad Brown investigates the science and technology of developing a more profitable peanut.

Jeannie Shinozuka examines the connections between intelligence testing and race making in the twentieth century.

Magnus Schaefer examines the intersection of mathematics, business interests and Cold War anxieties that gave rise to the field of digital signal processing.

Apply by December 15 for Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars and for Consortium Research Fellowships

Our newest member holds notable collections in the history of science and technology; mechanical, symbolic, and digital computing; cryptology; robotics; and botanical literature and art.

The history program at the American Institute of Physics is excited to announce that its long-running postdoc program has returned from hiatus and is now open to applications for a position to start in summer/fall 2026.

NYAM seeks a dynamic, innovative, and collaborative leader as the Director of the Library, charged with reimagining its goals and with building greater engagement of its rich holdings within NYAM and beyond.

Nidia Olvera Hernández uses transnational research in the collections of Consortium institutions to explore how psychoactive plants were understood within different scientific traditions.
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Gigantic Mastadon by Titian Ramsay Peale, 1821Image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society