History and Philosophy of Science at Oregon State University

D.M. Cicchiello is Oregon State University’s History of Science’s newest M.A. graduate. Cicchiello’s graduation in December 2019 was the culmination of two years of coursework and the successful completion of comprehensive exams and the defense of their research project. At Oregon State University in the History and Philosophy of Science program, after master’s students complete […]

Anna Dvorak graduated this past summer from Oregon State University’s History of Science program with her PhD. Her dissertation The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction focuses on the fictional writings of nuclear physicist Leo Szilard and how imagination played into his worldview. Jacob Hamblin in the […]

2018 PhD graduate in the History of Science, Emily Simpson’s newest article, “Building Canals from Panama to Mars: Technological Progress and Scientific Ideals,” was published in the journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences last month. The article, which discusses how the building of the Panama Canal may have shaped and influenced perspectives and ideas […]