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The Department of Science & Technology Studies (S&TS) at Cornell is concerned with understanding the larger ethical, social, and political dimensions of science-intensive issues. Science and technology are at the core of many of the most important concerns or topics of our day, from the control of military technology, to the ethics of assisted reproduction, to privacy on the Internet. The thread connecting these diverse issues is a shared understanding of science and technology as inherently social activities that are best studied from an interdisciplinary perspective.

S&TS News

Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships

11/22/2022

The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.

Designed for rural living

11/11/2022

Small communities struggle with infrastructure ill-suited to rural life. Phoebe Sengers is improving design processes for better outcomes.

Breaking barriers: Peer outreach boosts student veterans

11/10/2022

The number of undergraduate veterans enrolled at Cornell has nearly quadrupled over the past five years, thanks in part to outreach by a team of student veteran peer counselors.

Student group, Women of Color Athletics, creates space

10/26/2022

A new group provides female athletes of color at Cornell with a community of women who understand their challenges.

Pollack lauds ‘amazing Cornellians’ in State of the University speech

10/14/2022

Cornell's president highlighted recent achievements of Arts and Sciences faculty.

Weiss teaching award honors eight exceptional faculty

10/20/2022

Four A&S faculty members have been honored for their excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.

Student veteran finds a sense of community at Cornell

10/14/2022

Matthew Garcia '25 was in the first cohort of student-veterans to move in to the university’s new Veteran Program House on University Avenue.

Conference explores the theme of “Repair” from multiple humanities disciplines

10/10/2022

Friday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .

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S&TS Events

Nov

30

"An Evening in the Parlor" The Milstein Program's Fall Salon

A. D. White House

Dec

01

Club Q Candlelight Vigil

Arts Quad

Dec

05

Milstein Program End-of-Year Presentations

Clark Atrium

Dec

19

CANCELLED: Milstein Program ZOOM Info Session

Mar

15

LGBT Studies Essay Prize - Call for Submissions

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The Department is saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Trevor Pinch.

Trevor Pinch, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, who helped found multiple areas of study related to science, technology and sound, died Dec. 16 after living with cancer for more than four years. He was 69.

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Land Acknowledgement:

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.