Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star, edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke and Ellen Balka (MIT Press, 2016) has won the 2016 Best Information Science Book Award from the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). The work of Susan Leigh Star, the late critical thinker, spans multiple fields,… Read more

The Center welcomes faculty members, student, visiting scholar and fellows to submit activities to be reported in affiliate news each month. Please email a brief description of what you have been doing to cstmsnews@berkeley.edu.  Recent News This summer, Jane Flegal spent a month at the OECD in Paris, France, working on international science policy with her dissertation… Read more

Congratulations to all the CSTMS affiliates who presented last week in Barcelona, Spain, at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and EASST annual meeting. Attendees collectively explored the ways in which science and technology are increasingly performed ‘by other means’, in a variety of exploratory activities that include the articulation of collectives that do… Read more

UC Berkeley leadership recently announced the appointment of Cathryn Carson, Associate Professor in the Department of History, to the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science.  Carson will be the inaugural holder of the chair, created by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation to “recognize and support scholarly and research activities of… Read more

The University of California Berkeley’s Center to Advance Science in Policy and Regulation (CASPR) together with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS) and co-sponsors the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI) and the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research will host a Workshop on Advancing Science for Policy through Interdisciplinary Research in Regulation (ASPIRR). This workshop is supported by the… Read more

BERKELEY HST/STS WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM: Framing the Infinite: the Social Sciences of Space and Cosmology The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at U.C. Berkeley is delighted to offer a summer school on our campus in August 20-21, 2016.  This event will bring together students and scholars in the integrated fields of History of Science and Science, Technology,… Read more

The Center welcomes faculty members, student, visiting scholar and fellows to submit activities to be reported in affiliate news each month. Please email a brief description of what you have been doing to cstmsnews@berkeley.edu.  RECENT NEWS: Jameson Karns & Angelo Caglioti Angelo and Jameson both presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting (AAG). Angelo’s talk was… Read more

Arthur Reingold (Public Health) and CSTMS affiliate Ann Keller (Public Health) have been awarded an NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy grant to convene a Workshop for Advancing Science for Policy through Interdisciplinary Research in Regulation (ASPIRR) in fall 2016. Scientific evidence is a critical consideration in the process of creating regulatory policies and laws that promote technological… Read more

CSTMS Director Massimo Mazzotti and faculty member Charis Thompson participated in last week’s 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association Linking Theory and Practice: The Conduct of Sociology. Massimo Mazzotti provided commentary on a panel examining Rebecca Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed’s books, Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States, and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist… Read more

The Designated Emphasis (DE) in Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a program of training in the social studies of science, technology, and medicine for Berkeley and UCSF PhD students from any home department. CSTMS welcomes six new DE Students in Spring 2016: Jameson Karns – History Julia Lewandoski- History Kathleen Gutierrez- South and Southeast Asian Studies… Read more