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HCST now in its seventh year
With Spring 2008 Graduation, the HCST program completes its first seven years, having awarded more than a dozen Certificates and with about three hundred students having taken HCST 100. Half of all HCST Certificate awardees have graduated with honors, including cum laude.
Previous Lectures and Events
History Department Seminar: Experiments in the Field: George Becker, Carl Barus, and Geological
Experimentation at the Comstock Lode
November 14, 2007
Eric Brown, Princeton University and HCST
History Department Seminar: Protoplasm: History of an Idea
December 6, 2006
G. Rickey Welch, Biological Sciences, History, and HCST
Humanities Forum: Darwin, Romantic Geologist?
March 2, 2005
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Sandra Herbert, Department of History and HCST Founding Director
Webb Lecture: Fantasy and Fungi: Science and Imagination in the Life of Beatrix Potter
October 6, 2004
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Linda Lear, Department of History and HCST Guest Faculty
| Atomic Culture: Cold War Civil Defense Tuesday 4 March 2003 4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery JAYNE LOADER, Co-Master of Quincy House, Harvard College In 1977 Jayne Loader joined Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty to produce a documentary based on 10,000 U.S. Government Films on nuclear attack and civil defense. The Atomic Café, using only original audio and video with no narration, debuted in 1982 to critical acclaim worldwide. It has been shown continuously since, and was recently released on DVD. Sponsors |
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WJZ TV Visits HCST 100 for story on UMBC
Professor Sandra Herbert, HCST Director, handed out syllabi and began the second offering of HCST 100 under the watchful eye of Local television station WJZ TV's reporter and videographer. The first class of the semester, August 28, 2002, was featured in the story about UMBC's designation as a Newsweek "Hot School".
Bridging the Information-Wisdom Gap:
a View from the East
Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:00 pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
KISHIN MOORJANI,
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Born and raised in India, Moorjani is a theoretical physicist who is immersed in several cultures. Intent on bridging East and West, science and the arts and humanities, he is also a celebrated raconteur and devotee of Epicurus.
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Program in the Human Context of Science and Technology
High Tea for HCST
Dean of Arts and Sciences G. Rickey Welch and Dean of Engineering Schlomo Carmi hosted a High Tea in December, 2001 to celebrate the launch of the HCST program and the first HCST-100 class.
Dean Welch congratulates HCST Director Sandra Herbert; Dean of Engineering Schlomo Carmil; Library Liaison Drew Alfgren, Advisement Coordinator Faye Adams, and HCST Committee member John Titchener; guests sample an array of teas and scones in the offices of the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Joseph N. Tatarewicz of the History Department and the HCST Committee discussed space flight in imagination and reality, and how engineering, science, science fiction, and film have influenced each other in his illustrated lecture, 2001 A Space Odyssey: A Century of Vision and Reality, Wednesday, April 25, 1001, 4:00 pm at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. The lecture was one of a series of campus events celebrating the new certificate in the Human Context of Science and Technology, and included an exhibition of selected items from UMBC Special Collections’ distinguished Azriel Rosenfeld Science Fiction Research Collection. Tony Benicewicz, science teacher, Maryland Finalist for the NASA Teacher in Space program, and collector of popular music who has done research for director John Waters, provided musical space themes before and after the talk. For more information on the subject see Professor Tatarewicz's course web page.
Professor James Strick, Arizona State University Program in Biology and Society and Visiting Research Fellow at the George Washington University Center for the History of Recent Science, spoke on "Swimming against the Tide: Bacteria, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Ideas about Life, 1946-1956" Monday, April 2, 2001. Professor Strick holds the MS in in Microbiology (SUNY) and the PhD in History of Science (Princeton). He is author of Sparks of Life Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation (Harvard University Press, 2000).
The HCST Committee met February 23, 2001 with Dr. Steven Cutcliffe, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society program at Lehigh University. Professor Cutcliffe has extensive experience in developing related programs, and has edited the Science, Technology, and Society curriculum newsletter for almost twenty years. He was invited to UMBC to assist us in planning the new program.
Professor Joseph N. Tatarewicz provided a personal perspective on astronomy's urge toward larger and higher telescopes at the March 1, 2001 UMBC-Goddard Space Flight Center Joint Center for Astrophysics Open House and telescope viewing with his talk, "A Historian Among Astronomers: Two Decades With the Hubble"
Dr. Julianne F. Tuttle, Indiana University Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Woodstock, Maryland, spoke May 11, 2000 on The Electric Battery versus the Chemical Balance: Romantic and Enlightenment Modes of Chemistry.
