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...Director of Undergraduate Studies Steven Shapin said that the chief reason behind the changes was to increase the visibility of the concentration and to reach out to those students who may not know much about...
...fact, Shapin said, some concentrators felt that they weren’t getting as much out of the thesis experience as they would have liked...
History of science professor Steven Shapin said that the recent influx of popular science books comes at a particularly opportune time, both because of the unique nature of 21st century science and the growing importance of science in everyday life...
...Because research is getting so specialized, we know less and less about more and more because science is getting too detailed to explain,” Shapin said. “Yet at the same time, science and technology is becoming more important in people’s life and they want to know what’s going...
...Like with any area of scholarship there are better and worse pieces of scholarship that come out of it,” Flood said about the emerging field. Another new course, History of Science 153, “History of Dietetics,” taught by Ford Professor Steven Shapin, also touches on issues of obesity. Shapin said he has included a segment on obesity in the 19th century because of the significant social role it has played. “There is a transition from viewing people that were stout as a good thing to viewing people as corpulent...