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The collaborative nature of innovation was one of the key messages author Steven Johnson delivered during a campus visit Sept. 22, as a guest of the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.
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Lisa Lehner recently published an open-access article in BMC Public Health titled 'Beyond the "information deficit model" - understanding vaccine-hesitant attitudes of midwives in Austria: a qualitative study'. Read more here
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Bruce Lewenstein will be part of the leadership group of a new NSF-funded Science & Technology Center on “programmable plants”. Professor Lewenstein will be leading the “social, ethical, and public engagement” theme within the overall project. S&TS faculty members Phoebe Sengers, Malte Ziewitz, and Steve Hilgartner are also involved in the...
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The Technology and Law Colloquium – a hybrid Cornell University course and public lecture series – will return this semester with talks from 13 leading scholars who study the legal and ethical questions surrounding technology’s impact in areas like privacy, sex and gender, data collection, and policing.
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A review of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs was recently published in Science magazine by Professor Suman Seth. Read more
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Congratulations Barkha Kagliwal for being elected as a new 6S Representative at the 4S Council. The Society for Social Studies of Science Student Section (6S) aims to facilitate interactions among students and junior scholars of science studies, and to promote the interests of graduate students within 4S. 6S is coordinated by three representatives...
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Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
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Amy Kaminski '98 is the editor of a new book about space science and public engagement and has a career that’s dedicated to helping people become involved in science research in a meaningful way.
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Members of the Class of 2021 are showing their resilience, graduating with exciting offers and embracing the next part of their journey.
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West Campus house professor reflects on immersive six yearsBy Tom Fleischman | May 26, 2021A chance meeting in a hallway, a conversation about music over dinner, living-room discussions – they were ordinary, everyday occurrences, but for Steven Jackson they were the best part of living at William Keeton House.Life as one of five house...
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