Sarah Reisert | Science History Institute

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Sarah Reisert joined our organization in 2007. She manages the awards program, a suite of nine awards honoring historic achievement in the sciences, and acts as a staff liaison to the Heritage Council and the Joseph Priestley Society. She enjoys contributing to life at the Science History Institute: writing for the magazine, curating mini-exhibitions, voicing the podcast, participating in First Friday, and running the staff book club.

Sarah received her BA in communication from Villanova University and her MS in public communication from Drexel University.

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Who Needs a Mammogram?

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In the fight against breast cancer, entrenched interests and outmoded ideas may be hurting patients.

Our Oldest, Deadliest Foe

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Tracing the immense misery wreaked by the mosquito.

Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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Our book club reads Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth by Keith Veronese.

Hunting the Nazi Nuclear Hoard

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In the last years of World War II a group of American scientists and soldiers raced to capture enemy physicists, sabotage Hitler’s nuclear ambitions, and do it all before their Soviet allies were any the wiser.

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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Science writer Deborah Blum chronicles one chemist’s fight to bring order to a lawless food industry.

Book Club: Let’s Go to the Moon!

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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Science History Institute Book Club reads two histories of the space race: T-Minus by Jim Ottaviani and Shoot for the Moon by James Donovan.

Where Lies Humanity’s Salvation—Conservation or Innovation?

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Charles Mann’s latest book traces how scientists William Vogt and Norman Borlaug took very different approaches to feeding the world and how their feuding ideas anticipated today’s environmental debates.

Book Club: A Universe of Dark Matter

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The Science History Institute Book Club reads The 4% Universe by Richard Panek.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Living in a world nearly free of polio, it’s difficult to imagine what it was like when almost every summer children fell ill, became paralyzed, and sometimes died from a disease people didn’t understand and couldn’t control.

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology is remaking the world. How do we manage its potential harms and benefits?

Baking Up a Storm

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When crime and politics influenced American baking habits.

Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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Does Darwin deserve the credit for the theory of evolution, knowing what we know now about his predecessors?

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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Frankenstein was unleashed on the literary world 200 years ago, but its message still has relevance to everything from gene editing to Facebook.

Serious Fun

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Does joy drive civilization?

Air Born

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The discovery of gases led to both wonderful and terrible creations.

It’s about Time

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A recent book traces the many ways we travel through time.

Life on Mars

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Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were only meant to last 90 days, but they kept going and going and going, gaining friends all along the way.

Finding the Right Words

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How people communicate complex science is just as important as what they communicate.

Home Away from Home

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Take a trip to Seminole Lodge, Thomas Edison’s Florida retreat.

The Magic of It All

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How Victorians found a foolproof way to make science interesting for their children.

Under Cover of Ink

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A recent book reveals the long history of secret writing.

Remember Los Alamos

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The Bradbury Science Museum tells the story of the making of the atom bomb in the place where the bomb was born.

Let There Be Light

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The story of electricity, danger, nationalism, advertising, and pollution in the lighting of the United States.