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The Consortium is a university wide initiative designed to foster interdisciplinary research, teaching, and discourse on broad societal and public policy dimensions of emerging and established technologies, including but certainly not limited to biotechnology, nanotechology, sensing, and information technology.
Spring 2008 Series on Science, Technology and Society
Past Event: Linking Biology to Political Science and Public Policy:
Toxins, Brain Chemistry, and Behavior
Roger D. Masters
Dartmouth College
April 7, 2008
More about Professor Masters
Click here to read Professor Masters' 2007 paper on which the talk was based.
Students Share Science and Technology Policy Posters
For their final project of the Fall 2007 Semester, students enrolled in the Graduate Political Science course "Science, Technology, and Public Policy" at Northeastern shared their posters at an exhibition.
More after the jump.
Fall 2007 Series on Science, Technology and Society
Has Information Technology Led to Fundamental Changes in the State?
Jane Fountain
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
UMass-Amherst
November 14, 2007
Professor Jane Fountain capped off the Fall 2007 Series on Science, Technology and Society by discussing whether advancements in information and communications technology (ICT) will change the way government bureaucracies interact.
Jane Fountain Biography and homepage