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MIT News: Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement
Aug 20, 2018
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WBUR Radio Boston: Alan Lightman On The Tension (And Commonalities) Between Science And Religion
Jun 7, 2018
Undark
Truth, Beauty, Science.
As Some Agencies Bolster Polices on Sexual Harassment, Others Lag Behind
September 21, 2018, 3:41 pm / by Jane Roberts
New Algorithms Perpetuate Old Biases in Child Welfare Cases
September 20, 2018, 9:35 am / by Elizabeth Brico
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SPECIAL EVENTS and COLLOQUIA
Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Morison Prize and Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society
Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize
FALL 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?