STORIES

HPS’s Newest MA Graduate

Congratulations to Oregon State University History and Philosophy of Science’s newest MA Graduate, Kathleen McHugh! On March 15th, McHugh successfully defended her thesis, “Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921.” Committee members included head advisor Marisa Chappell, as well as historians Jake […]

PhD Candidate Published in Distillations

PhD candidate Miriam F. Lipton recently published an article entitled “Bacteriophages and the Fight Against Cholera in Cold War Afghanistan: Could a Soviet-era therapy offer a new defense against antibiotic-resistant superbugs?” in Distillations, an online publication of the Science History Institute. Lipton’s research explores antibiotic resistance and its development. Through this research, Lipton explores notions of […]

Grad Student Book Reviews: Miriam F. Lipton

PhD candidate Miriam F. Lipton has been busy reviewing newly published academic books related to her own research. Recently, Lipton reviewed the following works: Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation and The Environment and International History. Pharmapolitics in Russia Lipton’s review of Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation by […]