Bennett A. McIntosh

5084 Mosse Humanities Building

UW Madison – Department of History

455 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706

bamcintosh@wisc.edu

Ph.D. student, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

Certificate in Science and Technology Studies

M.A., History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

M.S., Science Writing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

B.A., Chemistry, magna cum laude

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Open Science and Environmental Regulation

With Nicole Nelson, UW-Madison, Madison, WI

De novo protein library design & characterization

Lab of Michael Hecht, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

De novo polypeptide design & characterization

Lab of Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Computational simulation of restriction enzyme dynamics

Lab of Rüdiger Ettrich, Czech Academy of Sciences, Nové Hrady, CZ

Transcriptomics of S. cerevisiae respiration cycle

Lab of Megan McClean, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Editorial Project Assistant

Social Studies of Science

Freelance Science Reporter & Editor

Harvard Magazine; NOVAnext; Oceanus; Princeton Alumni Weekly; Science for the People

Science Communications Contractor

Hertz Foundation; National High Magnetic Field Laboratory; Princeton University; University of Georgia

Communications Officer

The Fannie & John Hertz Foundation, Livermore, CA

Public Affairs Intern

University of California, San Francisco Office of Public Affairs, San Francisco, CA

Science Writing Intern

Princeton University Office of the Dean for Research, Princeton, NJ

Al-Garawi, Z. S., B. A. McIntosh, D. Neill-Hall, A. A. Hatimy, S. M. Sweet, M. C. Bagley, and L. C. Serpell. “The Amyloid Architecture Provides a Scaffold for Enzyme-like Catalysts.” Nanoscale 9, no. 30 (2017): 10773–83. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR02675G

McIntosh, B. “Abstraction, Data-Based Biology, and Social Science after the Genome.” April 2022, Midwest Junto for the History of Science, Ames, IA *Conference Cancelled due to COVID

McIntosh, B., P. Grinkevich, A.R. Li, R. Ettrich. “Exploring the conformational space of a new domain in EcoR124I’s translocation-restriction subunit.” July 2014, Conference of the 2nd Summer School in Molecular Biophysics and Systems Biology, Nové Hrady, CZ

You can read my published work in:

• Princeton Alumni Weekly
• Harvard Magazine
• NOVAnext
• Science for the People
• Oceanus
• Find Your Path (MIT Press, 2019) [as researcher & contributing editor]

Or, download my CV to view the full list.

Risk, Fortune, and Futurity [STS.414]

Visiting student in graduate seminar in MIT’s History Anthropology, and STS program

Societal and Political Implications of Technology [STS.462]

Visiting student in graduate seminar in MIT’s History Anthropology, and STS program

Holtz Center Top-Up Award

Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, UW-Madison. (Value: $4,000 over two years)

Fulbright Award

Host institution: Lund University, Lund, SE. (Value: SEK 119,000 over one year; declined)

High Meadows Research and Communications Fellowship

Host institution: Climate Central, Princeton, NJ. (Value: $73,500 over two years; declined)

The Making of Modern Science

Hist Sci 202,with Prof. Devin Kennedy, UW-Madison, Madison, WI

The Digital Age

Hist Sci 150, with Prof. Devin Kennedy, UW-Madison, Madison, WI

“The Discussion Project.”

Three-day discussion-based pedagogy workshop, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW–Madison

“Qualitative Research Methods: Analyzing Data.”

Online course, MITx

“Qualitative Research Methods: Conversational Interviewing.”

Online course, MITx

Society for the Social Studies of Science

History of Science Society

American Chemical Society