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Intersect is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, STS-focused, academic research journal run by undergrads that publishes online quarterly at intersect.stanford.edu.  It is…
Stanford will proceed with plans to welcome frosh and sophomores to live on campus in the winter quarter, but in light of public health conditions, will adopt a phased undergraduate arrival process…
Message from the Director:    It’s almost Thanksgiving: a moment for celebration, reflection, and looking ahead.   We all deserve to celebrate, just for surviving the first quarter…
In May 2020, STS hosted our first Zoom version of the annual STS Honors Symposium.  Professor Kyoko Sato and her teaching assistant Efrain Brito worked tireleslly to support the students and…
Responding to the Black Lives Matter movement and the killings of several Black people at the hands of police, professor and Director of Science, Technology & Society (STS) Paul Edwards has…
Antiracism in Biomedical Research and Medicine  Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Dean Ayodele Thomas Wednesday, September 30 at 11:00 am   The Departments of Genetics, Developmental…
The Program in Science, Technology & Society announces two new concentrations:    Catastrophic Risks and Solutions (CRS) Catastrophic Risks and Solutions will let students explore…
What are the roles of race and racism in science, technology, and medicine?The STS Program and 17 other Stanford centers, programs and departments are collaborating to host a weekly speaker…
This coming year will be like no other, so let’s get ready together. This is where you’ll find information for undergraduates and families about the 2020-21 academic year.
We're preparing for the 2020-21 academic year with your health and education as top priorities.  Grad Updates has current information for new and continuing graduate students,…
by Sandra Feder Teaching students about the existential threat of a pandemic as they are living through one can help make the danger feel less hypothetical and much more real. Rashid Al-Abri did not…
STS launched a new Catastrophic Risks and Solutions (CRS) concentration for the 2020-2021 school year!     This concentration allows students to focus on understanding,…
 STS is pleased to announce that Mark Granovetter,  the Joan Butler Ford Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Sciences and longstanding member of the STS…
Article Written by Katie Brown Walter Vincenti, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, laid the engineering groundwork for flight at the speed of sound and helped…
Article Written by Carrie Spector For years, one of the highest-rated comedy series on television was The Big Bang Theory, a show whose central characters portray “old, tired images of the…
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