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The Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Ontario, is looking for a Queen’s National Scholar (QNS) in Intersectional Surveillance Studies, specializing in Big Data and Social Inequality, at Assistant or Associate Professor level. The full …

Professor Steph Tai was quoted in a recent Snopes article, stating that political interference in science is nothing new, but Tai and other experts agree that what is happening to scientific integrity under President Trump …

Sociology 496 (special topics course): SOCIAL STUDIES OF RACE IN SCIENCE Spring 2018 Professor Joan Fujimura 7101 Social Sciences Building This class is for undergraduates with at least junior standing and for graduate students. Students …

The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce a call for applications for PSP2: A Summer Program for Underrepresented Groups in Philosophy of Science, which will be held in …

Noah Weeth Feinstein, recently took part in an interdisciplinary, international research workshop on Public Engagement with Science Online (PESO). PESO explored interactions between sciences, publics and social media. Feinstein, an Associate Professor of Curriculum and …

Andrew Ruis, Ph.D., member of The Holtz Center, recently published a book on school lunch and nutrition policy. Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat (July 2017) explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain …

Professor Jo Ann Oravec, member of the Holtz Center, was recently published in the “Technology in Society” (Elsevier). Kill switches, remote deletion, and intelligent agents: Framing everyday household cybersecurity in the internet of things https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.09.004 …