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.
STS In The News
Faculty & Student Mentions, News
The Steady State: When Astronomers Tried to Overthrow the Big Bang
Jan 8, 2020
Op-Eds, Faculty & Student Mentions, News
Opinion: California’s San Onofre nuclear plant is a Chernobyl waiting to happen, by Prof. Kate Brown
Nov 20, 2019
Undark Magazine
Truth, Beauty, Science.
Psychology Still Skews Western and Affluent. Can It Be Fixed?
January 20, 2020, 10:00 am / by Michael Schulson
In New Jersey and Nationwide, Battles Over Vaccinations Continue
January 17, 2020, 3:38 pm / by Michael Schulson
How Mass Animal Die-Offs Reshape Ecosystems
January 16, 2020, 4:00 pm / by Brandon Barton & Abby Jones
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: Eden Medina
Eden Medina is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. Her work uses technology as a means to understand historical processes and she combines history, science and technology studies, and Latin American studies in her writings. Her current book project, Bones and Lives: Making and Unmaking Truth After Dictatorship (Duke University Press, under contract), studies how nations use science and technology to address histories of dictatorship and state violence and how science and technology intertwine with processes of truth, justice, and repair. More broadly her research studies the history of science and technology in Latin America and the ways that political projects shape, and are shaped by, technologies such as computers.