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Gabrielle Hecht, STS affiliated faculty, is among three Stanford University scholars who have been awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships. This prestigious honor recognizes mid-career scholars, artists…
Stanford has been involved in a major remaking of introductory general education. The University launched the COLLEGE program as a first-year requirement. You can read about its offerings here: …
Call for Papers
From Global Catastrophes to Existential Risks: Intersections, Reinforcements, Cascades
Deadline for abstract submissions: December 15, 2022
Please direct your questions to seri-…
The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) postdoctoral fellows will develop and pursue independent research agendas addressing large-scale risks across any of the four research areas (advanced…
This year’s $500 award is split between two excellent STS graduate students:
Frank Vito Mondelli has advocated for disability rights throughout his time at Stanford. Frank’s dissertation focuses on…
The race for technological advances that will help us reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is on! Leading up to Earth Day 2022, Wondrium—the leading streaming provider of lifelong learning content…
Nine researchers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS describes their…
Open Postdoctoral Fellow position, Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) is accepting applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship position…
The science journal Nature polled Lead Authors of IPCC Sixth Assessment (including STS Director Dr. Paul Edwards) on their views about the future of climate change. Over 60 percent think the world…
STS Director Paul Edwards published an analysis piece in The Conversation about climate change as an infrastructure problem.
Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five…
STS Director Paul Edwards announces the first recipient of a new annual award that recognizes an STS student, TA or staff member who made a special contribution to social justice for historically…
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…
Gabrielle Hecht sees the world differently from most of us.
The Stanton Foundation Professor in Nuclear Security, she reviewed the standard story of nuclear weapons – that they divide the world into…
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…
For many, the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the murders of George Floyd and too many other people of color was a wake-up call. “It was clear it was another moment in the long,…
