Feb 18, 2014 | Cocktail Hour: Allen Thompson “Inter-generational Justice and Issues in Ecosystem Management”
Thompson discusses a growing field of ecological thought that concerns the increasing emergence of non-analog or “novel” ecosystems and the subsequent need to develop an “intervention” ecology to supplement historic management principles of non-intervention, arguing that an intervention ecology will be required to achieve our preservation and conservation goals in a new world of rapidly changing ecologies. Continue Reading Feb 18, 2014 | Cocktail Hour: Allen Thompson “Inter-generational Justice and Issues in Ecosystem Management”
Feb 20, 2014 | WiSE Winter Luncheon: Addressing Gender Bias in the Sciences
The Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group is hosting a luncheon on gender bias in the sciences. Have you ever wondered how to recognize and/or deal with gender bias in STEM careers? Have you known people who have been biased against, but are unsure of how to help them? Are you afraid that you yourself might be biased? Are you interested in the status of women in STEM fields? Continue Reading Feb 20, 2014 | WiSE Winter Luncheon: Addressing Gender Bias in the Sciences
Jan 22, 2014 | Science and Justice in an Age of Big Data: Biomedical Privacy & Genomic Openness
On January 22, 2014, the Science & Justice Working Group is hosting the first in a series of ongoing conversations about the unresolved issues raised by the recent push to expand efforts to collect and aggregate biological samples and data. Jenny Reardon (Science & Justice Research Center Director and Associate Professor of Sociology) will facilitate a conversation between Peter Yu (incoming President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Director of Cancer Research (ASCO) at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation) and David Haussler (Director of the UCSC Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering). Continue Reading Jan 22, 2014 | Science and Justice in an Age of Big Data: Biomedical Privacy & Genomic Openness
Jan 16, 2014 | Human / Non-Human Collaboration Across the Arts & Sciences
As artists and scientists explore non-human relationships and discover new ways to illustrate and inspire each other’s work, issues of collaboration, ethics, empathy and justice collide as these borders are crossed and new hybrid relationships emerge. Continue Reading Jan 16, 2014 | Human / Non-Human Collaboration Across the Arts & Sciences
Nov 13, 2013 | Investigative Justice
Sally Lehrman speaks about what constitutes responsible practices of investigation in journalism, and what might we learn from and with journalism about the challenges of constituting responsible practices of investigation in science? Continue Reading Nov 13, 2013 | Investigative Justice
Nov 02, 2013 | Workshop: Transacademics: Making Use of Interdisciplinary Research Methods Outside of the Academy
Third Meeting of the Bay Area Intercampus Workshop on InterdisciplinarityThis workshop will consider how interdisciplinary research methods and knowledges can be used outside of specialized academic venues, with a particular focus on the importance of collaboration. Scholars who are drawn to interdisciplinary inquiry are often in search of knowledge that has more purchase on ‘real… Continue Reading Nov 02, 2013 | Workshop: Transacademics: Making Use of Interdisciplinary Research Methods Outside of the Academy
Oct 03, 2013 | Thawing Justice?
Wednesday October 16, 2013 4:00-6:00PM Engineering 2, Room 599 Joanna Radin (Yale, Department of History) will join us to discuss what happens when biological tissues in freezers take on different ethical meanings over time. What are our responsibilities towards the life immortal? Who is responsible? At this session, we will also discuss the recent NIH… Continue Reading Oct 03, 2013 | Thawing Justice?
May 28, 2013 | When does science become justice? Scientific evidence, pesticides and food system justice
This panel brings together a social scientist, an activist organization, a natural scientist, and a pesticide regulator. Where we search for shared insights into the meeting of scientific knowledge and democratic governance of food systems, giving credence to the positions of the many stakeholders in food systems—farmers, workers, neighbors and eaters alike. Continue Reading May 28, 2013 | When does science become justice? Scientific evidence, pesticides and food system justice
May 28, 2013 | Putting Earthquake Prediction on Trial: Lessons from the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake
In October, 2012, seven Italian earthquake scientists were found guilty of manslaughter for their role in failing to communicate the risk of a possible earthquake, shortly before a powerful 2009 earthquake killed more than 300 people in the city of L’Aquila, Italy. In October, 2012, seven Italian earthquake scientists were found guilty of manslaughter for their role in failing to communicate the risk of a possible earthquake, shortly before a powerful 2009 earthquake killed more than 300 people in the city of L’Aquila, Italy. This trial has become an international cause celebre; in today’s event, Prof. Susan Schwartz (UCSC, Earth and Planetary Sciences) will discuss the current state of earthquake prediction and her experiences working in Costa Rica. Prof. Massimo Mazzotti, (UC Berkeley, History) will talk about the political and institutional context which led to the seven scientists’ being put on trial. Continue Reading May 28, 2013 | Putting Earthquake Prediction on Trial: Lessons from the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake
Apr 10, 2013 | Bruce Ames — Nutritional deficiencies and trace synthetic chemicals: Putting health risks into perspective
Dr. Ames will discuss the triage theory and what it means for the relative risks of competing nutritional strategies. Continue Reading Apr 10, 2013 | Bruce Ames — Nutritional deficiencies and trace synthetic chemicals: Putting health risks into perspective