Announcing the New Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Seven institutions have joined with the dozen members of the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science to form the new Consortium. We are very excited by the greatly expanded opportunities and resources that these new partnerships will provide for promoting public and academic understanding of the history of science, technology and medicine.

The Consortium comprises the following members:

  • American Institute of Physics (College Park, MD)
  • American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)
  • College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Columbia University (New York, NY)
  • Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE)
  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, MO)
  • New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
  • Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
  • Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
  • University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  • University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario)
  • Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Yale University (New Haven, CT)

    • The programs of the new Consortium will initially be extensions and expansions of the programs run by the Philadelphia Center in previous years. The Consortium will: (1) provide research fellowships for use of collections at member institutions (in addition to hosting dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships in residence at its offices at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia); (2) share working groups and other academic and public events online; and (3) expand the resources on our website, including the Consortium Special Collections Search Hub, with materials from new members.

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