The community of scholars at MIT’s Program on Science, Technology and Society bring methods from the humanities and social sciences to understanding science, technology, and medicine around the world. Our department includes lively undergraduate and graduate programs, and postgraduate training for science and technology journalists.
By bridging humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine, our department seeks to build relationships among colleagues across the Institute in a shared effort to understand the human challenges at the core of the MIT mission.
What is STS?
THE 2018 BENJAMIN SIEGEL PRIZE IS NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
Open to all current MIT undergraduate and graduate students.
deadline: April 6, 2018 to midnight
STS In The News
Faculty & Student Mentions, News
Merritt Roe Smith, one of four named 2018 MacVicar Fellows
Mar 5, 2018
Book Releases, Faculty & Student Mentions, News
New book by Will Deringer – “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age”
Feb 7, 2018
Undark
Truth, Beauty, Science.
Should Scientists Advocate on the Issue of Climate Change?
April 24, 2018, 10:45 am / by Ingfei Chen
In the Fate of the Delta Smelt, Warnings of Conservation Gone Wrong
April 23, 2018, 9:29 am / by Sharon Levy
With New NASA Administrator, Legislators Sense Trouble Ahead
April 20, 2018, 2:52 pm / by Jane Roberts
Chain Reaction: How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science
April 20, 2018, 10:45 am / by Sharon Weinberger
Breaking News
SPECIAL EVENTS and COLLOQUIA
SPRING 2018 STS EVENTS
Faculty Spotlight: Robin Scheffler
Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program, is an historian of the modern biological and biomedical sciences and their intersections with developments in American history. He is currently working on a project that follows the history of cancer virus research in the twentieth century from legislature to laboratory, documenting its origins and impact on the modern biological sciences. His other projects include the history of the biotechnology industry and a chemical biography of dioxins. The common goal of Professor Scheffler’s projects is to understand the mutual influence of science on society and of society on science.