RCN: Expanding the History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine: The United States and its Regional Neighbors

科学通常被理解为一种通用语言，涉及地球上所有地方的对话。然而，正如最近关于疫苗接种和气候变化的争议提醒我们的那样，并非每个人都以同样的方式理解科学。最近对科学、技术、环境和医学的研究正在通过研究不同的公众如何参与和应用科学来解决这个问题。他们还分析了这些不同的公众如何影响科学创新。尽管如此，大多数研究都集中在美国和欧洲。该项目通过审查拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的科学创新和应用以及该地区科学与其他地点的关系，更全面地了解科学是如何运作的。通过赞助一个网站、讲习班和出版物，该项目将为教师和研究人员提供新的资源，使他们能够获得拉丁美洲和加勒比地区最前沿的科学研究成果。它还将培训新一代科学史研究生，以开展拉丁美洲和加勒比研究，并将该区域纳入其课程。 这个研究协调网络项目汇集了资深和成熟的研究人员和研究生，以评估拉丁美洲和加勒比地区充满活力和蓬勃发展的科学，技术，环境和医学领域。我们的网络将确保北美和南美研究人员之间的联系，并统一与各种学术团体和组织进行的讨论。它将出版出版物，使该区域非专家也能了解这项研究。拉丁美洲的民族和种族多样性以及克理奥尔化的土著和非洲裔知识实践的存在，使其成为促进挑战科学理性或与科学理性共存的世界观知识的绝佳场所。项目参与者将包括科学史研究生，并为他们提供关于拉丁美洲和加勒比的深入培训和指导-大多数科学史研究生课程都没有现成的培训。K-16教师将获得参考书目，课程计划，论文和教学大纲集，使他们能够涵盖更广泛的科学努力和更多样化的科学家社区。他们的学生将反过来纳入和复制更完整和复杂的科学如何在全球范围内运作的代表性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Science has often been understood as a universal language, involving conversations across all parts of the planet. However, as recent controversies regarding vaccination and climate change remind us, not everyone understands science in the same way. Recent research on science, technology, environment, and medicine is addressing this issue by looking at how diverse publics engage with and apply science. They are also analyzing how these disparate publics influence scientific innovation. Still, most of this research focuses on the United States and Europe. This project provides a more comprehensive view of how science works by examining scientific innovation and application in Latin America and the Caribbean and the relation of science in the region to other sites. By sponsoring a website, workshops, and publications, the project will produce new resources for teachers and researchers, providing access to cutting edge studies of science in Latin America and the Caribbean. It will also train a new generation of graduate students in the history of science to conduct research on Latin America and the Caribbean and to incorporate the region into their courses. This Research Coordination Network project brings together senior and established researchers and graduate students to take stock of the vibrant and burgeoning fields of science, technology, environment, and medicine in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our network will secure ties among researchers in North and South America and unify discussions taking place with a variety of academic societies and organizations. It will produce publications that make this research available to those who are not specialists in the region. The ethnic and racial diversity of Latin America and the existence of creolized Indigenous and Afro-descendant knowledge practices make it an excellent place for advancing knowledge of worldviews that challenge or coexist with scientific rationalities. Project participants will include graduate students in the history of science and provide them with in-depth training and mentoring on Latin America and the Caribbean--training that is not readily available in the majority of history of science graduate programs. K-16 teachers will gain access to bibliographies, lesson plans, essays, and collections of syllabi that allow them to cover a broader range of scientific endeavors and of a more diverse community of scientists. Their students will in turn incorporate and reproduce more complete and complex representations of how science functions globally.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.