History and Philosophy of Science at Oregon State University

With travel restrictions still in place due to Covid-19, few students will be able to leave the U.S. for research purposes this summer. With that in mind, we wanted to highlight some past travel experiences in an effort to boost morale and keep our motivation high for when we are able to travel once again. […]

Picabo Fraas, who recently completed her first year in the M.A. program at Oregon State University’s History and Philosophy of Science Program, received the History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Student Essay Award for her paper, “Continents Apart: The 1926 Symposium of American Petroleum Geologists and the Rejection of Alfred Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift.” […]

Congratulations to the newest members of the History and Philosophy of Science graduate program at Oregon State University who have advanced to candidacy. Despite the small size of the program, which currently has five students in the PhD program, three have all moved to candidacy in spring 2020 with the fourth anticipated to move towards […]