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

科学常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。他们也在分析这些不同的公众是如何影响科学创新的。尽管如此，大多数研究都集中在美国和欧洲。该项目通过考察拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的科学创新和应用以及该地区与其他地点的科学关系，对科学如何发挥作用提供了更全面的看法。通过赞助一个网站、研讨会和出版物，该项目将为教师和研究人员提供新的资源，使他们能够接触到拉丁美洲和加勒比地区最前沿的科学研究。它还将培养科学史方面的新一代研究生，以便对拉丁美洲和加勒比地区进行研究，并将该地区纳入他们的课程。该研究协调网络项目将资深和成熟的研究人员和研究生聚集在一起，对拉丁美洲和加勒比地区充满活力和蓬勃发展的科学、技术、环境和医学领域进行评估。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，使非本区域专家的人可以获得这项研究。拉丁美洲的民族和种族多样性以及土著和非洲后裔混杂的知识实践，使其成为推动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——这是大多数科学史研究生课程无法提供的培训。K-16教师将获得书目、课程计划、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群体。反过来，他们的学生将吸收和再现更完整、更复杂的科学如何在全球范围内发挥作用的表征。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.