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Apr 9 2021 | Seven Stanford scholars awarded Guggenheim Fellowships | Posted In: Awards, Faculty, In the News
Lochlann Jain is a professor of anthropology. Jain’s scholarship intersects between science and technology studies, history, political economy, gender and sexuality, biology and medicine. In particular, Jain’s work aims to unsettle some of the deeply held assumptions about objectivity that underlie...
Mar 26 2021
Humanity faces its most dangerous century yet. Together, we can work to reduce existential risks.
SERI (the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative) will be bringing together the academic and professional communities dedicated to mitigating existential and global catastrophic risks — large-scale...
A new three-quarter sequence of courses provides insights from scholars around the nation on research related to race in the fields of science, technology and medicine, as well as their own lived experiences.
BY SANDRA FEDER
Mar 8 2021
On February 18, our panel featuring three STS '20 alums shared stories and strategies for pandemic career building. Hailing from a variety of industries and career pathways, they shared their journeys after STS and Stanford including how they navigated searching for a job during a pandemic and how...
Mar 8 2021
The Program in Science, Technology & Society, in collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, is pleased to offer seed funding for courses on global catastrophic or existential risks.
