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Call for Visiting Scholars & Visiting Student Researchers
June 1st, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Congratulations Dr. Melina Packer!
May 4th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Algorithmic Modernity: Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000
May 4th, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »

Algorithms have been transforming human society long before the advent of computing. Yet the rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever, and algorithms are often depicted as obvious and unproblematic—without context and without history. Algorithmic Modernity: Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000 draws together the history of mathematics and intellectual history to convey the enduring global… Read more
Undergraduate Minor in STS Deadline Approaching
May 3rd, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Applications for the STS Undergraduate Minor are now open. The deadline to apply is May 5, 2023! As our students enter into a world of accelerating change, it has become ever more important that these future scientists, engineers, computer and data scientists, health care practitioners, social scientists, teachers, policymakers, and more be able to reason… Read more
What is AI Doing to Art?
May 2nd, 2023 | by Lupita Rodriguez | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »

CSTMS affiliate, Lois Rosson, wrote an article published in Noema on April 11th. Her article, “What is AI Doing to Art?“, discusses AI and human creativity. This piece is a product of her research at the Berggruen Institute and the University of Southern California (USC). It has given her the chance to take a quick… Read more
The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy
April 18th, 2022 | by Christina Wang | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
The American Psychoanalytic Association has awarded Hannah Zeavin the 2022 Courage to Dream Book Prize for her book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021).The Distance Cure tracks the history of teletherapy (understood as a therapeutic interaction over distance) and its metamorphosis from a model of cure to one of contingent help.… Read more
Hot and Cool Mothers
March 28th, 2022 | by Christina Wang | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Hannah Zeavin, CSTMS Executive Committee Member, won the Inaugural Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media in 2021 from The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, for her article “Hot and Cool Mothers” in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 32,… Read more
Welcome to the Digital Village
March 18th, 2022 | by Christina Wang | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, won the American Association of Geographers’ top early career award at the annual conference. The award was given for her paper, “Welcome to the Digital Village: Networking Geographies of Agrarian Change”, which explores digital connection from the paddy fields… Read more
Welcome to Fall 2021
September 1st, 2021 | by Starlette Khim | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »
Dear all, Welcome to another exciting semester at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society! It is my pleasure to serve as Acting Director for the Center this year and to welcome you all back in person. As a historian of medicine and gender in the History Department, I have been a member of… Read more
Mursinna Selected for Berkeley-Uppsala Research Fellowship
April 9th, 2021 | by admin | published in Latest news | Leave A Comment »

CSTMS affiliate and Designated Emphasis in STS student Jordan Thomas Mursinna has been selected as a recipient of the 2021 Berkeley-Uppsala Research Fellowship. Following a partnership established in 2018 with UC Berkeley, Uppsala University designed the Fellowship to foster increased collaboration between the two institutions. Mursinna’s project examines controversies in the history of taxonomy and… Read more