Energy, Environment, and Society (STS.032) with Prof. Chakanetsa Mavhunga, MIT STS Program.
Providing context for energy and sustainability issues is the major goal of STS.032, an elective for the Energy Studies…
Each year MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society offers the Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize to the MIT student submitting the best written work (under 50 pages) on issues in science,…
Marc Aidinoff, MIT HASTS Graduate Student, researches the intersection of technology policy and social policy in the United States. In this piece in the Washington Post, Marc helps frame the current…
Fostering Ethical Thinking in Computing
New case studies series examines social, ethical, and policy challenges of present-day computing activities.
Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
March 2, 2021
Traditional…
For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges.…
The STS Program is pleased to announce the L. Dennis Shapiro (1955) Graduate Fellowship in the History of African American Experience of Technology, thanks to a generous gift from MIT alum…
COVIDCalls: Biomedicine in the Archive with Joanna Radin & Robin Wolfe Scheffler
LINK TO PODCAST: EP #215 – 02.04.2021 – Biomedicine in the Archive with Joanna Radin & Robin Wolfe Scheffler…
MIT historian of finance Will Deringer talks about what he learned from his time as a Blackstone analyst, Michael Milken and early spreadsheet programs, the South Sea Bubble and the many…