| 2012 (Expected) |
Ph.D. History, Stanford University (2006-Present) |
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Major Field: History of Science, Minor Field: Science Policy
Ph.D. Advisor: Robert N. Proctor
Dissertation Committee: David M. Kennedy, James T. Campbell
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| 2010 |
M.S. Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University |
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M.S. thesis in paleobiology titled "Evolutionary dynamics of foraminiferan size during mass extinction, recovery, and background intervals"
Supervisor: Jonathan L. Payne, Second Reader: Steve C. Wang
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| 2009 |
M.A. History, Stanford University |
| 2006 |
B.A. History and Latin American Studies, Oberlin College |
| (In Press) |
"'Waking a Sleeping Giant:' The Hidden Story of Polonium in Tobacco," invited submission to Tabaccologia |
| 2011 |
Jonathan L. Payne, Mindi Summers, Brianna Rego, Demir Altiner, Jiayong Wei, Meiyi Yu, and Daniel J. Lehrmann, "Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction," Paleobiology August 2011 (3):409-425 |
| 2011 |
"Archaeology in the Petén: The Early Classic Maya Site of Holmul in Guatemala," Electrum Magazine, March 2011 |
| 2011 |
"Radioactive Smoke: A Dangerous Isotope Lurks in Cigarettes,"Scientific American, January 2011, 78-81 |
| 2009 |
"The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation and the Tobacco Industry,"Isis, 2009 100:453-484 |
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Distributed in June 2009 to members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives by the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids and helped influence the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (legislation for U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco, signed into law June 22, 2009)
Parts reprinted in Robert N. Sayler and Molly Bishop Shadel, Tongue-Tied America: Reviving the Art of Verbal Persuasion (Wolters Kluwer: Austin, 2011)
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| 2010-present |
The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Dissertation Fellowship |
| 2007-present |
Distinguished Departmental Scholar, Department of History, Stanford University |
| 2009-2010 |
Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Graduate Fellowship Program |
| 2007-2010 |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship |
| 2007-2009 |
Fletcher Jones Foundation NSF Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University |
| 2007 |
NSF Travel Grant to attend the History of Science Annual Meeting in Crystal City, VA, November 2007 |
| 2006-2007 |
Lane Graduate Fellowship, Program in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Stanford University |
| 2006 |
Awarded membership in Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in History, Comfort Starr Prize in History, Oberlin College |
| 2010 |
Presenter at the Sun Valley Writers' Conference, Sun Valley, Idaho, August 2010 |
| 2010 |
Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Hidden Story of Polonium in Tobacco, talk given for the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Graduate Fellows Program, April 2010 |
| 2010 |
The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation, and the Tobacco Industry, talk given for the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, January 2010 |
| 2009 |
"It Has the Potential of Waking a Sleeping Giant:"
The Tobacco Industry's Private Debate on Publishing Internal Polonium Research, talk given at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ |
| 2008 |
Sediments of the Himalayas, Tailings of the Triumph Mine: Tracing Arsenic Through Mines, Mountains, and Groundwater, talk given at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2007 |
The Polonium Brief: A Hidden History of Cancer, Radiation and the Tobacco Industry, talk given at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA |
| 2010-present |
Visiting Graduate Researcher, Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 2009-2010 |
Graduate Admissions Committee Member, Department of History, Stanford University |
| 2007-2008 |
Graduate Studies Committee Member, Department of History, Stanford University |
| 2007-2008 |
Department of History Graduate Student Representative, Stanford University |
| 2007-2008 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Stanford University |
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Fall 2007 History 163, Richard White, History of the North American Wests
Spring 2008 History 103E, David Holloway, History of Nuclear Weapons
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| 2006-2008 |
Stanford University Libraries Special Collections, survey of Stephen Jay Gould archive and collections |
| 2004-2006 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College |
