Graduate Training and Research Program in Cold War Science and Technology Studies

Hounshell博士和卡耐基梅隆大学历史系的成员正在指导STS的“培训和研究小额赠款”（SGTR），以支持冷战期间专注于科学技术的持续研究和培训计划。他们选择这个领域是因为他们已经发展了一套极好的核心能力来推进冷战科学和技术的研究，同时也发挥了重要的培训功能。冷战科学和技术仍然是STS的一个重要领域，随着它的结束，为研究人员寻求新来源、新方法和新问题提供了巨大的机会。此外，由洪谢尔博士主持的美国国家科学基金会冷战科学技术研讨会指出，“关于冷战期间科学、技术和民主的基本问题仍有待解决。”这些问题远远超出了科学技术研究的实践者群体。该基金将资助三名研究生、一名博士后和一个冷战科学与技术研究研讨会。这项支持将有助于学生和博士后的研究和教学以协调一致的方式集中在对后冷战时代标准普尔技术未来至关重要的问题上。

Dr. Hounshell and members of the Carnegie Mellon University Department of History are directing an STS `Small Grant for Training and Research` (SGTR) to support a sustained research and training program focused on science and technology during the Cold War. They have chosen this area because they have already developed an excellent set of core competencies to advance research on Cold War science and technology while also serving an important training function. Cold War science and technology is a subject that continues to be an important area for STS and, with its end, represents enormous opportunities for pursuing new sources, new approaches and new questions for researchers. Further, the NSF Workshop on Cold War Science and Technology, which Dr. Hounshell directed, noted, fundamental questions about science, technology, and democracy during the Cold War remain to be resolved. These questions go well beyond the community of practitioners in science and technology studies. This SGTR will support three graduate students, a postdoctoral fellow and a Research Colloquium in Cold War Science and Technology. The support will help focus the students and postdocs' research and instruction in a concerted manner on issues of great importance for the future of S&T in a post-Cold War era.