Past Events

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240 results

Seminar: Peter Weingart
October 6, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
Title: "Science, Public, and the Media: The Challenges of Science Communication"

HMWG: Frank Blibo
October 5, 2015
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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SC469
In Person
Frank Blibo (History of Science), “The ‘New’ Scientific Racism and the Misjudgment of Man: Rationalizing Human Difference in a (Post)-Genomic Age”

MSWG: Devin Kennedy
September 30, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Science Center 252
In Person
"What’s Real about Real-Time?: Engineering Responsive Computers from Whirlwind to Project Vanguard"

HMWG: Nils Hansson (University of Cologne)
September 28, 2015
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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SC469
In Person
Nils Hansson (University of Cologne), “Enacting Excellency: Awarding Nobel Prizes (or Not) to Surgeons in the Twentieth Century”

MSWG: Miriam Rich
September 23, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Science Center 252
In Person
"'Protecting the National Germ Plasm': Concepts of Defective Reproduction from Nineteenth-Century Embryology to American Eugenics" RSVP here by Monday, Sep. 21 for lunch. This talk will focus on very early-stage material from Miriam’s archival research at...

HMWG: Colleen Lanier-Christensen
September 21, 2015
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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SC469
In Person
Colleen Lanier-Christensen (History of Science), “Managing a ‘Moon Shot’ for Cancer: Contract Research at the National Cancer Institute”

MSWG: Felix Lüttge
September 16, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Science Center 252
In Person
"The whalers' natural history and natural historians' whales" Abstract: The paper uses the iconoclasm of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as a point of departure to examine four types of images that deal with the problem of representing whales pictorially. I...

Mary Morgan
Sep 18, 2014
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4:00PM EDT
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Science Center 469
In Person
History, philosophy and sociology of economics and statistics. Models, measurements, observations and facts in history and philosophy of science.