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December 11, 2023
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the celebrated French physicist...
December 5, 2023
Lauren Killingsworth, MD/PhD student, has been awarded this year’s Nathan Reingold Prize from the History of Science Society for the best not-yet published article by a...
November 17, 2023
Nana Quarshie’s article “Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization” wins the Walter D. Love Prize for the best article...
October 5, 2023
Researchers at Yale University are focused on the harrowing history of eugenics, the role the institution played in developing this psuedoscience, and its many lingering “...
September 14, 2023
Kevles, an award-winning author who was a senior lecturer in Yale’s Department of History, died on Aug. 18, two days short of her 85th birthday. Bettyann Kevles Original...
August 21, 2023
AUGUST 2023, BOSTON, MA – Oliver Lucier, of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, has been awarded the 2023 AMS/Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science.  The fellowship is...
June 14, 2023
Each year, the Harvey M. Applebaum ’59 Award Committee recognizes a student whose senior essay or capstone draws on the extensive federal and international government...