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The free, daylong celebration will be held on Saturday, June 10, 11am–3pm.
These projects investigate the common characteristics of historical groups whose individuality can only be understood within the collective identity of the group.
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The Beckman Center has hosted over 350 scholars from all parts of the world through its fellowships and programs.
Our scholars study a range of topics in the history and social studies of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
Discover the world’s first fully synthetic fiber and how it paved the way for countless other artificial materials.
Historians David Barnes and Rana Hogarth led an exploration of the disease’s legacy, followed by a guided tour of America’s first quarantine station.
Seventy years ago, a group of Philadelphia scientists and a brave 18-year-old pushed surgery to its final frontier.
The Science History Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.
Historians and social scientists of science, technology, and medicine discuss their collaborative work to develop and deploy “embedded connections” in the humanities and STEM fields.
This live goth-folk concert explores the strange and otherworldly side of science.
Join Institute president David Cole for Session 3 of a 3-part online course on the history of the U.S patent.
Where does science happen? It happens in field sites, factories, workshops, kitchens, and classrooms—not just in laboratories.
A group of medical students wants to take racial bias out of the equation.
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How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?
Your giving funds our museum, library, podcasts, magazine, programming, and other initiatives that explain the science we take for granted every day.
If there’s no such thing as biological race, why would the FDA approve a drug just for Black patients?
And then goes back. And then back again. And back again…
Reflecting on the trailblazing chemist’s fight for dignity and the myths we tell about our scientific heroes.
A seminal archaeology project proves it is possible to study human remains ethically.
Anthropological museums were built on the bodies of marginalized, non-consenting people. Can they ever exist ethically?
The population geneticists who led the Human Genome Diversity Project wanted to “hammer the final nail in the coffin of race,” but instead they wound up reaffirming it.
How protected lands inspire scientific pursuits.
For decades, nearly all race science was funded by one man. His goal? To ensure the intellectual continuity of a dubious field.
When yellow fever struck the city in 1793, faulty race logic almost destroyed it.