Past Graduate Student

Michael Mendez

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of City & Regional Planning
Dissertation Climate Change from the Streets: A Community-Based Framework for Addressing Local and Global Environmental Health Impacts Completed 2015 Advisor(s) Jason Corburn, Malo Hutson, and David Winickoff Degrees MCP in Urban Studies & Planning :: Massachuestts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2003)
BA in Urban Studies & Planning :: California State University Northridge (2001)

As subnational governments undertake leadership roles in climate governance, policy formulation is increasingly emerging as an expert...

Santiago Molina

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Sociology
Advisor(s) Marion Fourcade Degrees MA in Sociology :: University of California, Berkeley (2016)
BA in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine :: University of Chicago (2012)

My research generally focuses on the development of norms and standards of practice and classification in scientific organizations. I am pursuing this line of research through two projects.
The first is concerned with sampling practices and conventions of classification in human biology from the mid-Twentieth Century into the present. This comparative...

Laura Moreno

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Energy and Resources Group
Advisor(s) Alastair Iles Degrees M.A. Energy and Resources Group :: University of California, Berkeley (2015)
B.S. Conservation and Resource Studies :: University of California, Berkeley (2008)

Approximately 40% of edible food harvested in the United States goes to waste, costing the U.S. over $165 billion a year. Additionally, 25% of freshwater consumed, 4% of the U.S. energy budget, and 2% of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States are used to grow edible food that is never eaten. My research focuses on reducing food waste along the supply...

Edgar W. Morse

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Natural philosophy, hypotheses, and impiety Sir David Brewster confronts the undulatory theory of light." Completed 1972

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Timothy Moy

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Hitting the beaches and bombing the cities: doctrine and technology for two new militaries, 1920-1940." Completed 1992

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Pierce C. Mullen

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "The preconditions and reception of Darwinian biology in Germany, 1800-1870." Completed 1964

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Robert Multhauf

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation The relationship between technology and natural philosophy, ca.1250-1650, as illustrated by the technology of the mineral acids. Completed 1953

last updated: August 29th, 2012

Jordan Thomas Mursinna

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of History
Degrees Ph.D. :: University of California, Berkeley (2023)
M.A. :: University of California, Berkeley (2020)
B.A. History :: University of California, Berkeley (2015)

Jordan Thomas Mursinna recently graduated with his PhD in History and Designated Emphasis in Science Technology Studies. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of History, teaching the history of science, with particular emphasis on the history of systematics and classification in the modern natural sciences. He grew up in San Diego, California, where he worked as a research assistant...

Mauricio Najarro

PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Department of Anthropology
Degrees PhD Theological and Religious Studies :: Graduate Theological Union (2019)
Concurrent MA Philosophy/MA Theology :: Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology (2013)
BA Philosophy :: Williams College (2005)

Mauricio Najarro is a PhD Candidate in the Joint UC Berkeley-UCSF Medical Anthropology program with a Designated Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies. He also holds a PhD in Theological and Religious Studies with an Emphasis in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union. His first dissertation focuses on the phenomenological and...

Mary E. Novitski

Graduate Student
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation "Auguste Laurent and the prehistory of valence." Completed 1980

last updated: August 29th, 2012