{"85601":{"#nid":"85601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech School of History, Technology \u0026 Society Re-Names Graduate Degrees","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of History, Technology and Society (HTS) at Georgia Tech has changed the name of its graduate program and graduate degrees from \u0022History of Technology\u0022 to \u0022History and Sociology of Technology and Science,\u0022 to more accurately reflect the breadth of the program and its considerable strengths in sociology and the study of science.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia recently approved changing the names of the Master\u0027s and Doctoral degrees to Master of Science in History and Sociology of Technology and Science and Doctor of Philosophy with a major in History and Sociology of Technology and Science.  The first students will graduate with the new degree names this spring.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are pleased that the name change has been approved,\u0022 said Andrea Tone, professor and director of Graduate Studies, HTS.  \u0022Our graduate program is one of the best in the country, and we feel this change will help us attract even stronger students.  One student has already selected the sociology track, and we expect this number to grow.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I became chair of the School in 2001, I realized that the School\u0027s intellectual strength in sociology and science was not readily apparent to potential students and faculty,\u0022 said Willie Pearson, Jr., chair and professor, HTS.  \u0022I felt it was important to change the name in order for the program to grow the way it deserved.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor years the school\u0027s faculty was composed primarily of historians, reflecting the legacy of former school chair and professor Mel Kranzberg, founder of the Society for the History of Technology and widely regarded as the founder of the History of Technology discipline.  In recent years, the school has consciously added more faculty with sociology backgrounds including such notable additions as Mary Frank Fox, gender; Willie Pearson, Jr., science and family; and Sue Rosser, women and science and women\u0027s health.  Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Pennsylvania offer similar hybrid programs in history and sociology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHTS launched its graduate program in 1992.  The medium-sized graduate program serves approximately 21 full-time graduate students.  A few of the topics that current students are researching includes the role of radio technology in the Cold War, sociology of cancer research, women in architectural space, economic development in biotechnology, and history of the printing industry.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The School of History, Technology and Society (HTS) at Georgia Tech has changed the name of its graduate program and graduate degrees from \u0022History of Technology\u0022 to \u0022History and Sociology of Technology and Science,\u0022 to more accurately reflect the breadth of the program and its considerable strengths in sociology and the study of science.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-01-22 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of History, Technology, and Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}