Diane B. Paul (born February 4, 1946) is an American historian of science who is Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts at the

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus Un ...

. She taught in the University of Massachusetts Boston's Department of Political Science for 33 years prior to her retirement in 2003. Among the positions she held at this university was Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Since then, she has taught at the

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and the

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. She also served as a visiting scholar at the

University of Texas Medical Branch The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System. UTMB includes the oldest medical school in Texas, and has about 11,000 employees. In Febr ...

's Health Institute for the Medical Humanities from January to March 2018. An expert in the

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and

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, she is the former editor of the

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's ''Mendel Newsletter''.

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