News & Events

Ted Davis Presents "Science and Religion, Chicago Style: The Protestant Modernist Encounter with Science" / Ted Davis of Messiah University presents “Science and Religion, Chicago Style: The Protestant Modernist Encounter with Science” October 25, 2024, 3:30-5:00pm, Harlow Room, Bizzell Library, 5th floor

Testa and Hale co-edit Evolution Before Darwin / PhD Candidate Caden Testa and Dr. Piers Hale recently co-edited a volume of primary sources, titled Evolution Before Darwin, published by Routledge this month.

Student Spotlight: Caden Testa / This Student Spotlight features PhD Candidate Caden Testa, who has won multiple awards for his work on Lamarckian theory and the politics of evolution.

Piers Hale Co-authors Paper Published in npj Biodiversity / Professor Piers J. Hale is co-author on a paper published September 10th in the Nature journal, npj Biodiversity titled “Marine mammals as indictors of Anthropocene Ocean Health.”

Hunter Heyck Announced as Inaugural Director of OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production / Dr. Hunter Heyck of HSTM will be the inaugural director of the OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production, one of five centers nationwide created through the NEH’s new program supporting humanities perspectives on AI.

Kraig Bartel Defends Dissertation / Kraig Bartel successfully defended his dissertation: "Early Modern Jesuit Science Education at the Collegio Romano: Orazio Grassi, Galileo, and the Controversy over the Comets."

Stephen Weldon Receives CFI's 2021 Morris D. Forkosch Award / Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Stephen Weldon, was recently named the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Award for Best Book of 2021 for his book, The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism (2020), by the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry.

Alum Kate Sheppard Featured on Historians at the Movies Podcast / Dr. Kathleen Sheppard ('10) was recently on the Historians at the Movies podcast to talk about her latest book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age.

Mack Copeland and Jazz Wolfe Win Scholarships / Congratulations to Mack Copeland, this year’s winner of the Corliss E. and Esther C. Livesey Endowed Scholarship, and Jazz Wolfe, the recipient of the Sally Walker Endowed Scholarship!

Suzanne Moon Giving 28th Annual Hans Rausing Lecture / Professor Suzanne Moon will be giving the 28th Annual Hans Rausing Lecture in the History of Technology at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, May 30, 2024. Her lecture, entitled “Technology and Interconnection in Southeast Asia’s Longue Duree” will be based on her recent book Technology in Southeast Asian History.