Columbia University
Pamela Smith Awarded Getty Foundation Grant
Seth Low Professor History and Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society Pamela Smith has been awarded a three-year Getty Foundation Grant, with funds supporting research for the project “Minescapes: The Material Complex of Copper in Central Europe and Beyond.” The research will focus on the most important copper mines in the early modern world, which supplied Renaissance Europe with copper for bronze cannons and sculptures, and will bring together a team of historians, natural scientists, and art conservators.