Month: June 2018

Shari Wilcox is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a role that she has held for the …

Professor Rima Apple recently published two papers, highlighting public health in nursing. “’Women’s mission among women’: Unacknowledged origins of public health nursing,” Nursing History Review, 2018, 26: 55-67 “School health is community health: School nursing in …

Displaced Horizons was a collaborative multimedia performance that was co-sponsored by the Holtz Center on June 9.  The performance focused on water infrastructures’ socio-cultural and historical complexities to encourage a re-visioning of current water systems to …

Professor Jo Ann Oravec‘s peer-reviewed article, will be published in the “Ethics and Social Welfare” journal later this summer. The article is entitled “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Social Welfare: Some Ethical and Historical Perspectives on Technological Overstatement and Hyperbole“. …

During the 2017-2018 academic year, while on sabbatical, Professor Dan Hausman has been a Ludwig Lachmann research fellow at the London School of Economics. He has been studying the explicit use of cost-effectiveness information by the …

Kristin Eschenfelder and Greg Downey are finishing their four year Sloan funded exploration of the long-term sustainability challenges of science data infrastructures in the social sciences with co-PI Kalpana Shankar from UC Dublin. They visited …