“MIT is where science and society meet.” – MIT President Susan Hockfield
Scholars in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) conduct research at that meeting point, from the history of science and technology to anthropology, sociology, and literature. Scholars in STS ask “How do changes in science and technology affect what it means to be human?” and, conversely, “How do science and technology express human values?”
Spring 2012 Events
Monday, February 13
Bridges to Creative Renewal: Engineers and the "Design Revolution" in 1960s America
Matthew Wisnioski, Virginia Tech
Commenter: Kelly Moore, Loyola University
4:00 pm, E51-095
Monday, March 12
History of Science: Why and Wherefore?
D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
Commenter: Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
4:00 pm, E51-095
Monday, April 2
Self, non-self, and the everlasting pregnancy: The case of fetal cell microchimerism
Lynn Morgan, Mount Holyoke College
Commenter: Sarah Richardson, Harvard University
4:00 pm, E51-095
Thursday, April 5
Adapting Journalism to the Web: Experiments and Ordeals on the News Frontier
Co-sponsored with MIT’s, Center for Civic Media, Communications Forum, CMS, and Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
Speaker: Jay Rosen, New York University
Discussant: Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media, MIT
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, E14-633
Friday, May 11, 2012
