Sara Pritchard giving a talk to sts faculty and grad students

Department of Science & Technology Studies

The Department of Science & Technology Studies (S&TS) at Cornell is concerned with understanding the larger ethical, social, and political dimensions of science-intensive issues. Science and technology are at the core of many of the most important concerns or topics of our day, from the control of military technology, to the ethics of assisted reproduction, to privacy on the Internet. The thread connecting these diverse issues is a shared understanding of science and technology as inherently social activities that are best studied from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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John Tomasi

Building university cultures of open inquiry: Nov. 18 talk

John Tomasi, the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy, will speak on “The University at a Crossroads – and How We Can Build Cultures of Open Inquiry” as part of a series of events organized by the Provost’s Committee on the Future of the American University.

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S&TS Events

Feb 18
Wednesday 05:00 PM

M Studio: Sammus (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, '08, '18) Returns

Milstein Hall Milstein Hall Auditorium
Mar 09
Monday 12:15 PM

Administering the Environment: The Expert-Panel Report as a Form of Knowledge

Uris Hall G08
Mar 19
Thursday 04:45 PM

Speculative Fiction from South Asia: A Conversation with Vajra Chandrasekera

A. D. White House Guerlac Room
Apr 22
Wednesday 03:30 PM

Trevor Pinch Memorial Lecture: Steven Yearley

Atkinson Hall 121
Apr 23
Thursday 12:00 PM

The Technopolitics of Nuclear Latency: How Isolated States Use Nuclear Technology to Engage the West

Uris Hall G08
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Faculty Courses STS Major Biology & Society Major Graduate Program

The Department is saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Trevor Pinch.

Trevor Pinch, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, who helped found multiple areas of study related to science, technology and sound, died Dec. 16, 2021, after living with cancer for more than four years. He was 69.

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Land Acknowledgement:

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.

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