Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University

2018

January 9, 2018

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The 2018 Newsletter is now available!  Check out the STS Program’s highlights from this past year here.

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Join the Harvard STS Program as non-stipendiary fellow for 2019-2020! Apply here by January 31, 2018.

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Check out these two articles in Trends in Biotechnology on building capacity for a global genome editing observatory written by the organizers and key participants of Editorial Aspirations: Human Integrity at the Frontiers of Biology.

For more on building a global observatory for gene editing, revisit Sheila Jasanoff and Ben Hurlbut‘s Nature article

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STS Fellow Christopher Lawrence, recently published an op-ed in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on the lessons the US has learned from previous diplomacy with North Korea. Read it here.

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Congratulations to Blake McGhghy ’17, winner of our 2018 STS Undergraduate Essay Prize competitionHonorable mentions were also awarded to Bruno Moguel Gallegos ’18 and Augusta Conway ’18.

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Missed our Science and Democracy Lecture with Michael Ignatieff? The video is available now.

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Couldn’t make it to Climate Science in a Time of Political Disruption with Gina McCarthy? The video is up here.

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Interested to hear what Rick Doblin, Dan Wikler, Nicolas Langlitz and Ido Hartogsohn had to say about theThe Altered Mind: Psychedelics and the Ethics of Mind Enhancement? Watch the video here

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Missed our Science and Democracy Lecture with Sunita Narain? The video is now available.