In This Issue - Society for the History of Technology

SHOT Newsletter 28
July 2006
information on how to access the collection and a
direct weblink to the collection or its holder.
Advanced search options allow the user to search by
repository, inventor name, or collection title. Users
can also search for inventions from a list of over sixty
subjects. To access the MIND database or learn how
repositories with relevant collections can contribute
information about their holdings, please visit
invention.smithsonian.org/MIND.
The Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum at
the National Institutes of Health is pleased to
announce the appointment of Joseph A. November as
the next DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellow in the
History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology.
Joseph November, who will receive his Ph.D. from
Princeton University this summer, plans to join the
University of South Carolina as an Assistant
Professor in History. He will spend his fellowship
year (2007-2008) at the NIH conducting research
sponsored by the Center for Information Technology.
His project is titled: "Planting the Seeds: How the
NIH Cultivated Biomedical
Computing."
We congratulate Mr. November on his appointment.
SMITHSONIAN FELLOWS
The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center is pleased to
announce four new fellows selected for 2006.
Hyungsub Choi (Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins
University) is writing his dissertation on transistor
development and manufacturing in the United States
and Japan. Joseph Corn (Senior Lecturer, Stanford
University) will be doing research for his upcoming
book User-Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with
Personal Technology. Mara Mills' (Ph.D. Candidate,
Harvard University) dissertation analyses the
contributions of the deaf and hard-of-hearing to the
development of technologies for amplification, sound
inscription, and speech synthesis. And Dominique
Tobbell (Ph.D. Candidate, University of
Pennsylvania) will examine the records of several
pharmaceutical companies for her dissertation on the
political economy of drug development in the United
States. For more information about the Center's
fellowship program, please visit:
invention.smithsonian.org/resources/research_fellows
hips.aspx
CALLS FOR PAPERS
5 th IWHA Conference
“Pasts and Futures of Water”
June 13-17, 2007
The International Water History Association
(IWHA) will hold its 5 th biennial
conference from June 13-17, 2007 in Tampere,
Finland with the general theme “Pasts and Futures
of Water”. The event is co-organized and hosted
by University of Tampere (Dept. of History) and
Tampere University of Technology, TUT
(Institute of Environmental Engineering and
Biotechnology, IEEB).
The major themes of the conference are:
(i) Water and the City
(ii) Water, Health and Sanitation
(iii) Water, Food and Economy
(iv) Water history and the Future of
Humanity.
(v)
First Announcement will be published in June 2006
and can be viewed at: www.envhist.org. Proposals
are to be sent by October 15, 2006.
For possible enquiries:
victor.pal@uta.fi, eija.vinnari@tut.fi.
The International Water History Association
(IWHA) is the leading global organization on
water history. Previous Biennial IWHA
Conferences were held in Bergen, Norway, at
the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, and at
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. The
Association deals with water history in all its
aspects bringing together historians,
geographers, engineers, archaeologists,
anthropologists, and water managers. IWHA
is committed to bridge the gap between
academics and policy makers, and strives to
ensure representation from all world regions.
To become a member and enjoy the benefits of
IWHA membership visit www.iwha.net