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

科学经常被理解为一种世界性的语言，涉及到地球上所有地区的对话。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，并不是每个人都以同样的方式理解科学。最近关于科学、技术、环境和医学的研究正在通过观察不同的公众如何参与和应用科学来解决这个问题。他们还在分析这些不同的公众是如何影响科学创新的。尽管如此，这项研究的大部分集中在美国和欧洲。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区的关系，更全面地了解了科学是如何发挥作用的。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，为拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的尖端科学研究提供途径。它还将培训新一代科学史研究生，以便对拉丁美洲和加勒比进行研究，并将该区域纳入他们的课程。这个研究协调网络项目汇集了资深和知名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，并统一与各种学术协会和组织进行的讨论。它将出版出版物，向那些不是该地区专家的人提供这项研究。拉丁美洲的族裔和种族多样性，以及克里奥里化的土著和非洲裔知识做法的存在，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地区的深入培训和指导--这些培训在大多数科学史研究生课程中是不容易获得的。K-16教师将获得书目、教案、论文和教学大纲集合，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结合和复制更完整和更复杂的关于科学如何在全球发挥作用的陈述。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.