News and Notes
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Fellowship Applications for 2014-2015
November 5, 2013
The Center offers short term Research Fellowships, nine-month Dissertation Writing Fellowships and a Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars in the history of science, technology and medicine.
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Printing skulls: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
October 10, 2013
James Poskett, University of Cambridge
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
Degeneration in Miniature: Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century
October 1, 2013
Lijing Jiang, Arizona State University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
The American Idiot Schools: Disability and Segregation in the Nineteenth Century
October 1, 2013
Kathryn Irving, Yale University
2013 to 2014 Research Fellow -
The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920
October 1, 2013
Jeremy Blatter, Harvard University
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War
July 23, 2013
Douglas O’Reagan, University of California, Berkeley
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium
July 22, 2013
Catherine Bonier, University of Pennsylvania
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Drexel University acquires faculty papers from the dawn of the Macintosh
July 19, 2013
Drexel University Libraries announces the acquisition of a collection of faculty papers documenting the rise of microcomputing at Drexel.
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A Reinterpretation of American Institutions for the Feeble-minded, 1875-1920: the development of a “bureaucracy of care”
July 18, 2013
Katrina Jirik, University of Minnesota
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopatischen Aerzt at Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center
July 18, 2013
The history of homeopathic medicine in the United States is rooted in the area around Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art was founded in 1835 as