EHL's Erik van der Vleuten was among the three final nominees for the best master teacher award 2022-23 of Eindhoven University of Technology, which ran 24 master programs that year. At the Momentum festival on 29 September another well-deserved winner was announced. Still, the history of technology was highly visible in the omnipresent PR surrounding
NWO, in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has awarded twelve Embassy Science Fellowships (ESF-NL) in 2023. Mila Davids was awarded one of these. Mila will be connected to Netherlands Office Taipei. Her topic is "Sustainable production methods in the semiconductor industry in Taiwan: challenges and strategies for improving sustainability performance" Please find
We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; we draw on scholarship from diverse disciplines and publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists. July 2023, Volume 64, No. 3 On the Cover Stamping Soviet Cosmonauts, Craft and Cosmos │Rachel Hill
EHL's Frank Veraart is the winner of the Sophie Coe Prize 2023 for food history with his article: Frank Veraart, "Catalysing Socio-Ecological Change: The Extraction and Processing of Edible Oils, 1910–1940," Global Environment 15 (2022): 370–397. The paper presents the entangled history of the innovation of oil hardening and resource exploitation in the global south.
The Eindhoven History Lab has acquired seed funding for a project dedicated to re-inventing wastewater for rural-urban circularity in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The funding has been granted by EWUU, an alliance of four Dutch Universities. The seed funding will be used to support a cross disciplinary and collaborative initiative by TU Eindhoven, Wageningen University
Read the latest research and book reviews in Technology and Culture! We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists. April 2023, Volume 64, No. 2
Erik van der Vleuten received the best teacher award in the category 'BSc program Sustainable Innovation', and Frank Veraart received an honorful nomination in the category '1st year courses of the BSc program Sustainable Innovation'. The annual award ceremony was again organised by the student association INTERMATE of the TU/e School of Innovation Sciences. The
Ginevra Sanvitale's thesis Technopolitical Resonance: Emotions, computers and socialism in Cold War Italy (1965-1990), defended cum laude at TU/e in October 2022, is a co-winner of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology/ Division of History of Science and Technology dissertation prize. The thesis has also been nominated as best TU/e
As of 1 April 2023, Anique Hommels is appointed as Professor of Sociohistorical Technology Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. She will hold a Special Chair, offered by the Foundation of the History of Technology (Stichting Historie der Techniek, SHT). SHT is a non-profit organization that studies societal transitions in
This new book by our EHL affiliate researcher and former colleague Hans Schippers will be out soon!