June 2, 2022
[news]The STS program celebrated its 20th anniversary with a symposium on Science, Technology and the Human Future, Nov 3-5, 2022.
[news]Read the Future Humans anthology, a multi-media speculative fiction curated for the 20th Anniversary of the STS program.
[news]Mak Takahashi’s exhibit, Picturing the Invisible, was awarded the 2022 Ziman award by the European Association for the Study of Science & Technology (EASST).
[news]“We need more urgently to seize back the political discourse on life that has empowered this court to present a massively retrograde decision as if it stands on moral high ground,” says Sheila Jasanoff about the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion.
[news]Sheila Jasanoff wins Holberg Prize, one of the the world’s most prestigious awards in the social sciences.
[news]This year’s Science and Democracy Network meeting was held at Harvard from July 27-30, 2022. Check the SDN website for meeting details.
[news]Congratulations to Annelisa Kingsbury Lee for winning this year’s STS Undergraduate Essay Prize for her paper on “Ultrasupercritical Coal as Viral Technology: The Chinese Case.”
[news]Honorable mentions for this year’s STS Undergraduate Essay Prize were Lauren Fadiman for her essay “5G Conspiracy Theories and Biopolitics in the Vernacular,” and Emma Forbes for her paper on “Commodifying and Depoliticizing Robot Dogs.”
[news]If you missed the latest Science and Democracy Lecture with Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences, you can rewatch it here.