STORIES

MA Student Kathleen McHugh Presents at Phi Alpha Theta Conference

On 24 April, MA student Kathleen McHugh presented her research at the 2021 Phi Alpha Theta Western/Central New York Annual Regional Conference. Mc Hugh’s presentation examined university-level household physics textbooks in home economics curricula. McHugh argued that “University-level household physics textbooks were positively received by both the physics and home economics communities because they created […]

National Science Foundation will support Rocks and Reactors Project

Linda M. Richards, Ph.D. student in History of Science at Oregon State University, has been awarded a prestigious dissertation improvement grant from the National Science Foundation.  She weathered the storm of a tough selection process and now is ready to take her research project on the road–literally.  She’ll be traveling by bus (!) to multiple […]

Reflection: Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation and Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology

by Mason Tattersall* My project lies within the history of problems. This denotes a methodological approach within historiographic practice, rather than a field of inquiry or a specific subject matter. The history of problems proceeds to examine a given issue in its historical manifestations with the hope thereby of coming to a further understanding of […]