January 16, 2025
[news] STS Fellow Pariroo Rattan recently defended her dissertation, “A Marketplace for Populism: The Moral Politics of Digitization in India’s Informal Economy,” joining Nicole and Hilton to complete our trio of outstanding newly minted doctors.
[news] Congratulations to our extraordinary STS Fellows Nicole West Bassoff and Hilton Simmet, the first graduates to hold a PhD in Public Policy on the Science, Technology and Policy Studies track! Nicole’s dissertation is titled “Can Cities Be Smart? Urban Governance in the Digital Age,” and Hilton’s is “Just Economics: Inequality and Political Culture in Cross-National Perspective.”
[news] Two STS Undergraduate Fellows received a
Hoopes Prize for their senior theses — Katie Burstein with “The Body Restored: Constructions of the Patient in the Cult of Asclepius,” and Emil Massad with “We Never Said You Weren’t Exposed: Risk in the Aftermath of the Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.”
[news] Join us for the Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit on May 21-23. Register and learn more
here.
[news] Register
here for a panel discussion on April 24 regarding recent changes to federal research funding, co-hosted with the Harvard Griffin GSAS Science Policy Group.
[news] The 2025 STS Undergraduate Essay Prize contest is now open. Submissions are due
here by April 14, 2025.
[news] The 2025-2026 STS Fellows application is now
OPEN. Application deadline has been extended to March 14, 2025.