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.
READ MORE: Remembering Kenneth Keniston
STS In The News
“Michael Milken’s Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the Go-Go ‘80s” by Prof. William Deringer
Aug 26, 2020
Op-Eds, Faculty & Student Mentions, News
Washington Post: A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting the virus now, by Prof. Robin Scheffler
Jul 24, 2020
Undark Magazine
Truth, Beauty, Science.
In the Hunt for Industrial Brine, a Surfeit of Sinkholes
October 28, 2020, 9:26 am / by Elizabeth Miller
Workers Fired, Penalized for Reporting Covid-19 Safety Violations
October 27, 2020, 9:03 am / by Michelle Andrews, KHN
As Election Day Nears, Taking Stock of an Expertise Exodus
October 26, 2020, 9:38 am / by Starre Vartan & Jenny Morber
In Antitrust Case, Lawmakers Seek to Curb Google’s Dominance
October 23, 2020, 9:52 am / by Michael Schulson
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.