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The community of scholars at MIT’s Program in 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?Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Morison Prize and Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society
IN REMEMBRANCE
Loren R. Graham, MIT STS Program Professor Emeritus, died on December 15, 2024.
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MIT News: Remembering Loren Graham
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies: A Tribute to Loren Graham
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Kenneth Keniston, Founder, MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, died on February 14, 2020.
READ MORE: Remembering Kenneth Keniston
STS in the News
STS In The News
Faculty & Student Mentions, News
Usha Lee McFarling Named Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program
May 12, 2025
Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism Program
McFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
The Knight Science…
The Program in STS is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the L. Dennis Shapiro (1955) Graduate Fellowship in the History of African American Experience of Technology. All MIT…
Faculty & Student Mentions, News
David Kaiser in Physics Today – Hippies, Bell tests, and a Career Studying Quantum Entanglement
May 5, 2025
Professor David Kaiser has published an article in Physics Today. Marking the hundredth anniversary of quantum mechanics, he writes about a group of maverick physicists who studied the foundations of quantum…
Undark Magazine
Truth, Beauty, Science.
The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
June 17, 2025, 7:05 am / by Molly Taft
Uncovering the Exposome: An Emerging Field Casts a Wide Net
June 16, 2025, 6:03 am / by Emma Foehringer Merchant
STS EVENTS
2024-25 Morison Prize and Lecture with Zeynep Tufekci
“What if the Real Threat is Artificial Good-Enough Intelligence?”
Breaking News
Breaking news, brisk analysis, and reader discussions at the intersection of science and society.
PODCASTS
12/18/2020: Digging Deep into North American Metals Mining
2/2/2021:Rare Earths for the Common People
2/10/2021: Not All Farming Happens on a Farm
