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

Hounshell博士和卡内基梅隆大学历史系的成员正在指导STS“培训和研究小额赠款”（SGTR），以支持冷战期间以科学和技术为重点的持续研究和培训方案。 他们之所以选择这一领域，是因为他们已经开发了一套优秀的核心能力，以推进对冷战科学和技术的研究，同时也发挥了重要的培训功能。 冷战时期的科学和技术仍然是STS的一个重要领域，随着冷战的结束，为研究人员寻求新的来源、新的方法和新的问题提供了巨大的机会。 此外，Hounshell博士指导的NSF冷战科学和技术研讨会指出，冷战期间有关科学、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和技术研究从业者的范围。 该SGTR将支持三名研究生，一名博士后研究员和一个冷战科学技术研究座谈会。 这种支持将有助于集中学生和博士后的研究和教学，以协调一致的方式对冷战后时代的科技未来非常重要的问题。

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.