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Please feel free to send us any events or suggestions for activities to share with the STS community. Email us!
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STS Director Dr. Paul N. Edwards and the IPCC Assessment Report
For the last three years, STS Director Dr. Paul N. Edwards served as one of the 234 Lead Authors on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in August 2021. In an interview with Strekla Mag, Dr. Edwards talked about knowledge infrastructures and geoengineering, as well as policy and visual aspects of the landmark report on climate change. The science journal Nature also polled Lead Authors of IPCC Sixth Assessment (including Dr. Edwards) on their views about the future of climate change. Over 60 percent think the world will reach 3 degrees of warming or more by 2100 - a catastrophic level.
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| Faculty Publication Spotlight
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The WetNet: What the Oral Polio Vaccine Hypothesis Exposes about Globalized Interspecies Fluid Bonds
Dr. Jain analyzes the aftermath of Edward Hooper's suggestion that the trial of an oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the Belgian colonies of Africa engendered the pandemic form of the AIDS virus, HIV-1. The COVID-19 pandemic draws attention to the critical importance of studying The WetNet, a concept coined by Dr. Jain to name the conceptual and material infrastructures of inter- and intraspecies fluid bonding. (First published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly on June 12, 2020). Read the full ariticle.
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Winter Enrollment
Enrollment for the Winter quarter opened Wednesday, December 1st. In order to make sure you are prepared please review your curriculum plan in Google Drive and submit the appropriate forms or set up a meeting with our SSO, Dominique Topps.
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New Course: STS 51D
Did you have an opportunity to take part in our amazing STS 51 three-part series last year (A,B, and C)?? If not, no worries! A brand new course, STS 51D: Ethical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice, is being taught by our incredible affiliated faculty, Assistant Professor Aileen Robinson! Note: this course builds upon the STS 51 series from 2020-21, but it is not a prerequisite for the new course. This course can be used to meet part of the STS Social Science and Humanities Program Core, or for part of the Socio-Cultural requirement for the following STS Concentrations: Innovation and Organization, Life Sciences and Health, and Politics and Policy. See the course description here.
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Winter Capstone: STS 200N
If you are a senior and planning to graduate this year you MUST take senior capstone (in either Autumn, Winter, or Spring) if you haven't already done so. This year's capstone course offered in the Winter will be STS 200N: Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures, taught by Professor Adam Banks. See the course description here.
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One-Time Offering: HISTORY 243D
Taught by Professor Monica Green, HISTORY 243D: Emerging Diseases, Past and Present will use our current experience with the COVID-19 pandemic as a lens to study the processes by which infectious diseases emerge. Because of recent developments in the "historicist sciences" (bioarchaeology and palaeogenetics), it is possible to piece together the origin stories of some of the world's most impactful diseases. Offered in the Winter Quarter only, this course can be used to meet part of the Socio-Cultural requirement for the following STS Concentrations: Life Sciences and Health and Catastrophic Risks and Solutions. See the course description here.
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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Entrepreneurship Program
The Office of Technology Transfers (OTT) Entrepreneurship Program provides paid opportunities for undergraduate students to explore and contribute to advances at the intersection of business and innovative technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, computing, data science and biofuels. Students undergo intensive training as they participate at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters, national laboratories, and other OTT-approved facilities Learn more and apply by January 3, 2022.
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Stanford CARE Scholars Summer Program
The Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE) is offering an immersive, online 9-week summer immersion in Data Science and Vulnerable Populations for undergraduate and graduate students, with a focus in Asian Health. By the end of the program, scholars will utilize tools to conduct large database analysis, understand core concepts in health care research, and identify problems/solutions in vulnerable populations. Learn more and apply by January 10, 2022.
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CESTA Research Internship 2022
The Undergraduate Research Internship program at Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) matches Stanford undergraduate students with faculty-led research projects, giving students the chance to enrich their learning experience by contributing to research in the digital humanities under faculty tutelage. Learn more about anticipated projects and apply by January 5, 2022.
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BEAM: Meaningful Work Insight Session
Are you considering different career paths, wondering what might be a good fit, or just want more information about yourself to help you make decisions? If these questions resonate for you, try the Meaningful Work Kit! Join fellow Stanford students and recent alumni for a hands-on exercise and meaningful conversation, and leave with a tangible set of career priorities to help bring you clarity and shape your choices. Register on Handshake for December 2nd or January 11th session.
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