Bennett A. McIntosh
5084 Mosse Humanities Building
UW Madison – Department of History
455 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706
2022–
Ph.D. student, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
Certificate in Science and Technology Studies
2022
M.A., History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
2017
M.S., Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2016
B.A., Chemistry, magna cum laude
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2022–
Open Science and Environmental Regulation
With Nicole Nelson, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
2015–2016
De novo protein library design & characterization
Lab of Michael Hecht, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2015
De novo polypeptide design & characterization
Lab of Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
2014
Computational simulation of restriction enzyme dynamics
Lab of Rüdiger Ettrich, Czech Academy of Sciences, Nové Hrady, CZ
2013
Transcriptomics of S. cerevisiae respiration cycle
Lab of Megan McClean, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2022–
Editorial Project Assistant
Social Studies of Science
2016–
Freelance Science Reporter & Editor
Harvard Magazine; NOVAnext; Oceanus; Princeton Alumni Weekly; Science for the People
2018–2020
Science Communications Contractor
Hertz Foundation; National High Magnetic Field Laboratory; Princeton University; University of Georgia
2017–2018
Communications Officer
The Fannie & John Hertz Foundation, Livermore, CA
2017
Public Affairs Intern
University of California, San Francisco Office of Public Affairs, San Francisco, CA
2016
Science Writing Intern
Princeton University Office of the Dean for Research, Princeton, NJ
2017
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
2022
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
2014
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
2016–
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2019
Risk, Fortune, and Futurity [STS.414]
Visiting student in graduate seminar in MIT’s History Anthropology, and STS program
2018
Societal and Political Implications of Technology [STS.462]
Visiting student in graduate seminar in MIT’s History Anthropology, and STS program
2020
Holtz Center Top-Up Award
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, UW-Madison. (Value: $4,000 over two years)
2016
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)
As Teaching Assistant:
Spring 2022
The Making of Modern Science
Hist Sci 202,with Prof. Devin Kennedy, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
Fall 2021
The Digital Age
Hist Sci 150, with Prof. Devin Kennedy, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
2021
“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
2020–
Society for the Social Studies of Science
2020–
History of Science Society
2014–2016
American Chemical Society
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