Department News Archive


Professor Lawrence Principe to be Department Chair

Professor Lawrence Principe to be Department Chair
Professor Lawrence Principe was ceremoniously presented with the Department’s “chair” at our end of the year reception by our current Chair, Professor Maria Portuondo.   Thank you Professor Portuondo for serving […]


Doctoral Candidate, Marlis Hinckley, Awarded Fulbright

Marlis Hinckley will form part of the 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Mexico. She will be in Mexico starting in September, affiliated with UNAM and its Botanical Garden, where […]


Kudos

Check out our most recent graduate, Nuno Castel-Branco’s article, “Material Piety: Science and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Portugal”, in Renaissance Quarterly (Volume 74, Issue 4, Winter 2021, pp. 1162 – […]


Congratulations Aaron Bateman

Doctoral candidate Aaron Bateman recently published two articles, “Anti-satellite weapons are creating space hazards. Here’s a way to limit the damage” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and “Mutually assured […]


Doctoral candidate, Marc Alsina, published an article

Congratulations to doctoral candidate Marc Alsina for his article, “Aviation for the People: Class and State Aviation in Perón’s ‘New Argentina,’ 1946–55” which is in the January issue of Technology […]


Congratulations Professor Portuondo!

The department of History of Science and Technology is delighted to announce that Maria Portuondo’s book, The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano (Chicago, 2019) has […]