Session 1 Introduction Background to the project Course

Session 1 • Introduction • Background to the project • Course outline

Why, What, How Do We Learn? • • Course design Learning objectives Two-Cultures Learning-Centered Approach Intentional Learning Creative Thinking Writing Skills

How to Write a Paper • Primary Sources • Secondary Sources • Mechanics

My Background • Professor, Department of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768; Office phone: (909)869 -3872; email: zywang@csupomona. edu. • Specialties: History of science and technology, modern science in the US and China, US Cold War science policy, recent US history, Asian/Chinese Americans in science and technology. • www. csupomona. edu/~zywang

Resources: • Citation Style and Tips on Writing; • Links on Primary Sources in US History and History of Science and Technology • Sample Topics and Resources for HST 408, 423, and 461 • Links to Other Useful Papers and Sites

Books: • In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008). You can order it at RUP or Amazon, or read the Introduction. • Chinese American Scientists: A Transnational History (in early stage of development)

Recent Articles and Book Chapters: • “Lawrence Badash, ” Physics Today 64, no. 4 (April 2011): 70 -71. Co-authored by Peter Neushul. • [“History Professor’s NSF Grant Focuses on Cold War Scientists, ” February 14, 2011, Cal Poly Pomona Polycentric. ] • “‘肩住黑暗的�� ’: 我所知道的� 良英老� ” (祝 � 良英老� 九十寿辰), ２０１０年８月。[“‘Taking on the Dark Gate’: In Celebration of Professor Xu Liangying’s 90 th Birthday, ” August 2010]

• “Transnational Science during the Cold War: The Case of Chinese/American Scientists. ” Focus section on “New Perspectives on Science and the Cold War. ” Isis 101, no. 2 (June 2010): 367377. • “悼念� 中立老� ”（在� 中立先生追思会上的� 面� 言），� 柯遵科，“桃李不言，下自成蹊：� 中立先生追思会�� ”[pdf 版]，《科学文化�� 》，第７卷，２０１０年第三期。［“In Memory of Professor Zhao Zhongli, ” Science and Culture Review 7, no. 3 (2010). ］

• "China and the International Geophysical Year. " In Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years, eds. Roger D. Launius, James R. Fleming, and David H. Devorkins, 143 -155. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Co-authored by Zhang Jiuchen (� 九辰). • “美国近� 代科技� 境政策史研究：从�� 科学 �� 委� 会到奥巴� ”, 《科学文化�� 》，2010 年 2月，第 7卷第 1期, 107 -114� 。

• “Physics in China in the Context of the Cold War, 1949 -1976. ” In Physics and Politics, eds. Helmuth Trischler and Mark Walker, 251 -276. Berlin: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. • “首次国� 地球物理年与一个中国的原� ”, 《科学文化�� 》，2009年 12月，第 6卷 第 6期, 69 -81� 。与� 九辰合著。

• “What Can We Expect from the New [Obama] Administration? ” Harvey Mudd College Magazine, Winter 2008, 16 -17. Co -authored by Richard Olson. • “History of Science and American Science Policy, ” Isis 99, no. 2 (June 2008): 365373. Co-authored by Naomi Oreskes. • “Science and the State in Modern China, ” Isis 98, no. 3 (September 2007): 558 -570.

• Entries in Noretta Koertge (chief. ed. ), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007): – “Chien Shiung Wu” (Chinese American woman nuclear physicist) – “Zhu Kezhen” (Chinese meteorologist and science administrator) – “Zhao Zhongyao” (Chinese nuclear physicist)

• “China Goes to the Poles: Science, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Chinese Polar Exploration. ” In Extremes: Oceanographer’s Adventures at the Poles, eds. Keith R. Benson and Helen M. Rozwadowski, 269 -302. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007.

Education: • Ph. D, in History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994 • MS, in History of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 1985 • BS, in Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China 1982

Experiences: • Cal Poly Pomona History Department, Assistant Professor, 1999 -2004; Associate Professor, 2004 • UC Berkeley History Department, Visiting Lecturer, 1999 • UC Santa Barbara History Department, Visiting Lecturer, 1994 -98 •

Professional Services: • Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology Editorial Board Member, 2005 • Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences Associate Editor, 2007 • Member, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Archives and History Office Program Review Committee, 2007 • Vice President of the Pacific Circle, a scientific commission of the Division of the History of Science and Technology of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2009 -. • [Chinese] Studies in the History of Natural Sciences Editorial Board Member, 2009 • [Chinese] Journal of Dialectics of Nature Editorial Board Member, 2010 • Science and Culture Review Editorial Board Member, 2011 -

Professional Honors: • 2003 Price/Webster Prize, History of Science Society. Co-recipient with Peter Neushul. • Visiting Fellow, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, summers of 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011. • Adjunct Professorship, Henan Normal University, 2008 -