News and Notes
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Center wins National Endowment for Humanities Challenge Grant
February 18, 2014
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science has been awarded a $500,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an endowment for its fellowship program.
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North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration
January 23, 2014
The Center proudly announces the publication of North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration, edited by Susan A.
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Cross-Atlantic Fertilizations: Women’s Horticultural Education at Ambler, Pennsylvania
January 2, 2014
Donald Opitz, DePaul University
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Help Build the Center
December 19, 2013
The Center relies on its individual and institutional partners for financial, intellectual and strategic support.
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Call for Papers: Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology
December 19, 2013
The Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology will hold its 49th meeting on April 4-5, 2014, at the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
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November 2013 Newsletter
November 26, 2013
The Center's newsletter has updates on the fellowship program, public and academic events, collections of
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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
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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