Master’s Student Receives Prestigious Writing Award
D M Cicchiello has been awarded the Robert and Mary Jo Nye Graduate Student Essay Award for their historiographic essay, Medical (un)Making: Ethical Responsibilities and the Search for Agency in J. Marion Sims’s Montgomery Experiments. The essay was written for Professor Jacob Hamblin’s History of Science 513 course, which covers the history of science in […]
A celebration of a life in scholarship for Mary Jo Nye
On 16 January 2015, the Oregon State University School of History, Philosophy, and Religion celebrated the career of the historian of science, Horning Professor Emerita Mary Jo Nye, in a conference organized by current Horning Professor Anita Guerrini. The following blog, composed by graduate students in OSU’s Program in the History of Science, Technology, and […]
A Marine Biology Student’s Education Through the Scientific Art of Biography
by Ariana Meltvedt Snow* These reflections result from a February 2014 address at OSU’s Center for the Humanities delivered by Mary Jo Nye, Professor Emerita of History at OSU. Professor Nye, who spoke on “Biography and the History of Science,” has written biographies of many scientists including the English physicist and Nobel laureate P.M.S. Blackett […]
