Leuenberger to Study Israel/Palestine 'Map Wars'
Christine Leuenberger, senior lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, has been awarded more than $150,000 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Sciences. The award will fund a project to investigate the political use of maps in a conflict zone and how maps become part of territorial claims-making. Full story
Trevor Pinch Expounds on the Sounds of Commerce
When we think of buying and selling, we usually think in terms of what we can see: money, material goods, electronic trading screens. "Sound is very much an afterthought," Trevor Pinch said Feb. 15 in the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture.
But for Pinch, professor of science and technology studies and of sociology and author of the new book "The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies" (Oxford Unviersity Press, 2012), sound is anything but an afterthought. Full Story
Christine Leuenberger to develop interactive course in Israel
Christine Leuenberger, senior lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies,
will return to Tel Aviv University's geography department this December for 42 days as a Fulbright specialist. Full Story
Hilgartner Tapped as Study Section Member with Center for Scientific Review
Stephen Hilgartner, chair and associate professor of science and
technology studies, has been chosen to serve as a member of the Ethical,
Legal and Social Implications of Human Genetics Study Section with the
Center for Scientific Review. Membership on a study section represents
an opportunity for participants to contribute to national biomedical
research. Full Story
Ithaca's Trevor Pinch emerges as analog half of Electric Golem
Showcased proudly in the center of his basement studio, Trevor
Pinch's homemade synthesizer,"Stray Capacitance," is an artifact of
the early days of electronic music as well as a testament to
Pinch's manifold life and career. Full Story