-
Is
a Gene Test Right for You? The eternal search to live longer,
healthier lives is driving technology faster every day, with advances in
diagnosing and treating many diseases. One of the newest technologies in
this growing field is personal genome testing. In this interesting article,
Jason Roberts, CSPO faculty member, discusses the potential risk associated
with the emergence of these tests.
-
Elizabeth
Corley, Research Team Leader at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society
at ASU, comments in an article regarding nanotechnology.
The unknown human health and environmental impacts
of nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public,
according to a new report in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
-
STS
Graduate Student Summer Opportunity: In summer 2008, the Social
Science Research Council will sponsor 12 Dissertation Proposal Development
Fellowships in the field of Critical Studies of Science and Technology
Policy. Deadline 2/9/08 apply at:
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/scitechpolicy/
-
ASU’s
new Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology Interdisciplinary
Graduate Degree Program is now accepting applications. For more
information, visit http://hsd.asu.edu/.
-
ASU
Faculty Share in Nobel Honors: ASU Researchers have long been
working with IPCC, and the IPCC is now sharing the Nobel Prize with Al
Gore. ASU’s connection to IPCC includes Netra Chhetri, an assistant
professor in ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and the Consortium
for Science, Policy and Outcomes.
-
Fall
2007 Courses: CSPO faculty and affiliates are offering courses
in medicine and the media; science and governance; science, technology
and inequality; technology and society; global change; and more…
-
Democratization,
International Knowledge Institutions and Global Knowledge:
Clark Miller examines the rapid rise in the creation of international knowledge
institutions, arguing that these institutions reflect a growing effort
by nations and publics to assert democratic constraints on the on the global
exercise of power.
-
Science,
Policy and Social Equity:
This special issue of Science and Public
Policy explores the opportunities for, and difficulties
with, addressing inequities through science policy.
-
CSPO
in the news:
-
The
May 2007 Newsletter: The Monthly newsletter is now online for
your viewing pleasure.
-
Future of Earth's Climate Tough for Science to Predict: CSPO
Post Doc and Professor of Geography, Netra Chhetri discusses climate change
and its potential implications for water in the U.S. Southwest in The Arizona
Republic...
-
The
Enlightening Lunches are back: Come join us on Tuesday, May 1st,
for a talk with Claire Gordon.
-
The
Dreams of a Dissenting Science: Energy and Democracy in India: Come
join us on April 26th as CSPO's Shiv Visvanathan gives a talk on this topic.
-
Five Questions on the Philosophy of Technology: “If
technological innovation is understood as a core activity of the human
species, as organic as composing music or falling in love—which it is—rather
than an elective hobby that can either be pursued or not, then the core
question about technology becomes one of governing, of modulating, the
innovation activity itself.” From an essay by Dan
Sarewitz in the Philosophy
of Technology.
-
The
January 2007 Newsletter is now online.
-
Jamey
Wetmore's letter to the editor.
-
Workshop Report: Policy Implications
of Technologies for Cognitive Enhancement:
This is a report
on the workshop
held at Arizona State University, May 3-5, 2006, sponsored by the Consortium
for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University and the Advanced
Concepts Group at Sandia National Laboratories.
-
Decision Making
Under Uncertainty: Ranking of Multiple Stressors on Central Arizona Water
Resources: This draft sensitivity analysis of multiple stressors on Phoenix
water resources is developed as part of the SPARC project.
-
"Surveillance
and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life" written
by Torin Monahan, a CSPO affiliated faculty member.
Read
more
