The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS), in partnership with the Arts Research Center (ARC),  is initiating an artist-in-residence program that will focus on nurturing art/technology/science/engineering exchanges at UC Berkeley, in the Bay Area, and across the region. The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society is a research unit at UC Berkeley… Read more

Berkeley’s Data Science Education Program aims to make data science an integral feature of a liberal education and a core interdisciplinary capacity available to all Berkeley undergraduates. This is a bold experiment that will equip thousands of Berkeley students across campus with a fundamental education in data-driven thinking empowered by advanced statistical and computational techniques. “The team… Read more

Stuart Kandell, Ph.D, Research Fellow in the Program for Medical Humanities, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. He will travel to Japan and then to Germany to conduct research in the field of creative aging, interviewing older artists in each country. He recently returned from a research tour of Vietnam and Cambodia. In September,… Read more

Last week Gretchen Gano, CSTMS Associate Director of Research, joined colleagues in the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) Network on a panel called “Adding the Citizen Voice: Participatory Socio-Scientific Policymaking” in Boston at the annual AAAS meeting. This was a panel of technology assessment practitioners representing international and U.S. perspectives who presented… Read more

Professor Jenna Burrell (School of Information) and CSTMS Postdoctoral Researcher, Morgan Ames, won “Best of CSCW 2017” for the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Conference with their paper “‘Connected Learning’ and the Equity Agenda: A Microsociology of Minecraft Play.”

UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute has greatly expanded its research program to include exciting projects in biomedicine, agriculture, microbiology, and society. The IGI was created in 2014 as a partnership between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco. Combining the fundamental research expertise and the biomedical talent at UCB and… Read more

“Algorithmic Life” by Massimo Mazzotti “ALGORITHM” IS A WORD whose time has come. Algorithms are changing the worlds we inhabit — and they’re changing us. They pop up in op-eds on weighty topics like the future of labor in an increasingly automated world. Writing about how new trading algorithms are taking over Wall Street, a… Read more

The Buckmister Fuller Institue (BFI) has issued the Call for Proposals for the 2017 Fuller Challenge. BFI invites innovators who are addressing the many crises facing humanity and the fundamental systems that support life on Earth to enter to win the 2017 Fuller Challenge Prize. Entering the Challenge with a high quality application that meets… Read more

The Univie Summer School Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) will be held from July 3 to 14, 2017 in Vienna, Austria. The topic of the two-week course is “Genomics: Philosophy, Ethics and Policy” and the main lecturers are Robert Cook-Deegan, Paul E. Griffiths and Jenny Reardon. The application deadline is January 31, 2017. As an international… Read more

The homepage for the 4S 2017 meeting is now live. The conference theme is STS (In)Sensibilities, and it will take place in Boston from August 3 to September 2. Key dates to be aware of include: Nov 15. Call for open panels proposals Jan 1. Submission closes for open panels Jan 15. Call for closed/invited sessions and individual… Read more