Events
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2025-26 Morison Prize and Lecture with Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us on Monday, April 13, 2026, at 4 pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library, for a talk led by Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice […]
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Deep Forensics: A Conversation on Disappearance, Technology, and Layered Violence in Mexico
E51-095Join us on Wednesday, April 15th, from 4-6 pm in E51-095 for a special lecture with Professors Lindsay Smith and Vivette García-Deister titled "Deep Forensics: A Conversation on Disappearance, Technology and Layered Violence in Mexico." Speakers: Lindsay A. Smith (Arizona State University, ASU) Vivette García-Deister (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) Moderated by: Eden Medina […]
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KSJ + STS Spring Lecture – Confronting Race in Science, Medicine, and Journalism
The Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the Knight Science Journalism program and the program in Science, Technology, and Society on Thursday, April 23rd at 4:30 pm in the Nexus at Hayden Library (14S-130) for a thoughtful discussion on the history of race in the fields of science, medicine, and journalism, and its implications for the future. Featuring Oliver Rollins, Professor, […]
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Presentation – Hunting microbes: Histories of Mining Bio-Remediation in the Phenol Swamps of Estonia
A massive fire in the Estonia Mine in 1988 kicked off a series of events that are hard to track nearly fifty years later. A team of microbiologists, historians, and geographers came together to figure out how Soviet Estonian scientists treated the toxic spill of phenol from the mine with human-engineered microbes. This is the […]