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STS In The News
Faculty & Student Mentions, News
MIT News: Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement
Aug 20, 2018
Uncategorized, Faculty & Student Mentions, Public Engagement, News
WBUR Radio Boston: Alan Lightman On The Tension (And Commonalities) Between Science And Religion
Jun 7, 2018
Faculty & Student Mentions, Public Engagement, News
WBUR Radio Boston: How Kendall Square Became the Epicenter of the Biotech World, with Phillip Sharp, MIT, and Robin Scheffler, MIT
Jun 7, 2018
Undark
Truth, Beauty, Science.
How Peddlers of ‘Food-Grade’ Hydrogen Peroxide Exploit the Sick and the Desperate
August 20, 2018, 10:54 am / by Karen Savage
Can You Rewire Your Brain? Maybe. (It’s Tricky. Be Careful.)
August 17, 2018, 11:00 am / by Caroline Williams
The Obliteration of Night: On the Consequences of Electric Light
August 16, 2018, 11:01 am / by Richard G ‘Bugs’ Stevens
Where Interpreters Are Scarce, Immigrant Health Care Is Lost in Translation
August 15, 2018, 1:36 pm / by Sheila Mulrooney Eldred
Breaking News
SPECIAL EVENTS and COLLOQUIA
Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Morison Prize and Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society
Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize
SPRING 2018 STS EVENTS
Faculty Spotlight: Dwai Banerjee
Dwaipayan Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at MIT. He earned his doctorate in cultural anthropology at NYU and has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College. He also holds an M.Phil and an MA in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. His research is guided by a central theme: how do different kinds of social inequity shape medical, scientific and technological practices? In turn, how do scientific and medical practice ease or sharpen such inequities?