Program

Education Programs: Education Development & Demonstration (OLD)

Period of Performance

10/1/1986 - 6/30/1990

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$294,253.00 (approved)
$294,253.00 (awarded)


Initiation of an Undergraduate Concentration in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

FAIN: EL-20158-86

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)
L. Pearce Williams (Project Director: April 1986 to February 1991)

To support three tenure-track assistant professorships in the history and philosophy of science and technology. The first is a position in the philosophy of 20th-century physics, the second, in the history of technology, and the third in communication concerns the nature of writing in the sciences.