Science and technology studies (STS) is a growing field of study that seeks to understand how science and technology shape human lives and livelihoods and how society and culture, in turn, shape the development of science and technology.

By focusing scholarly attention on science and technology as human institutions, situated in wider historical, social, and political contexts, STS provides insights into the relationship between science and technology and such basic categories of social thought as race and gender, poverty and development, trust and credibility, participation and democracy, health and pathology, risk and uncertainty, globalization, and environmental protection.

Request for Proposals: Grants to Integrate STS Scholars into UW Courses (.doc).
(Deadline December 31, 2008)

Holtz Center Faculty Affiliate Gregg Mitman has been named the Interim Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Mitman was part of the original cluster hire which started STS at UW–Madison, and is a permanent member of the Holtz Center Steering Committee.

Monday, October 20: Mellon Workshop on Science & Print Culture
A Discussion with Holtz Center Faculty Affiliate Greg Downey (SLIS, Journalism & Mass Communication)
on his article "The Librarian and the Univac: Automation and Labor at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair" (reading will be posted here)
2:30pm in 4246 Helen C. White Hall

Thursday, October 30: Fall Semester Brownbag
Sejal Patel (Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar)
"Political Economy of American Medical Research: The National Institutes of Health in the Post World War II Period"
12:00 – 1:30pm in 2435 Social Science*
*Note change of location