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?
Kenneth Keniston, Founder, MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, passed away on February 14, 2020.
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STS In The News
Why Psychedelic Researchers Should Not Push Back Against Decriminalization, Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, Ph.D.
May 26, 2020
Faculty & Student Mentions, News
2020 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize Awarded to Jesse Gordon, MIT Chemistry
May 15, 2020
Undark Magazine
Truth, Beauty, Science.
Book Review: The Power and Pitfalls of Our Worlds Within Walls
July 2, 2020, 9:10 pm / by Christie Aschwanden
In the Future, Lab Mice Will Live in Computer Chips, Not Cages
July 2, 2020, 9:40 am / by Lindsay Gray
Bringing Andrology — and Male Infertility — Out of the Shadows
July 1, 2020, 9:15 am / by Frieda Klotz
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
STS EVENTS
Faculty Spotlight: Kate Brown
Kate Brown’s research interests illuminate the point where history, science, technology and bio-politics converge to create large-scale disasters and modernist wastelands. She has written four books about topics ranging from population politics, linguistic mapping, the production of nuclear weapons and concomitant utopian communities, the health and environmental consequences of nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster to narrative innovations of history writing in the 21st century. She is currently exploring the history of what she calls “plant people:” indigenes, peasants and maverick scientists who understood long before others that plants communicate, have sensory capacities, and possess the capacity for memory and intelligence. She teaches environmental history, Cold War history, and creative non-fiction history writing.