Professor Sally Gregory Kohlstedt wins History of Science Society’s Hazen Prize

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (12/12/2015)—Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Professor in the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota, has won the 2015 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize for excellence in education from the History of Science Society.

Kohlstedt is also the author of Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2010), which won the 2013 History of Science Society’s Margaret Rossiter Prize for the Best Book on Women’s History.

The prize committee recognized Kohlstedt as “an advocate for education” and “a beloved mentor to countless undergraduate and graduate students” who “combines teaching with another area of her outstanding activity: women and science.” They note that “In addition to her many publications and courses on science, women, and gender, she is an active supporter of women both in the history of science, and through her outreach activities in the sciences as well.”

The award was announced at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in San Francisco, CA. More information is available on the History of Science Society website.

The History of Science Society is the world’s largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in historical context. More than 3,000 individual and institutional members across the world support the Society’s mission to foster interest in the history of science and its social and cultural relations.