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SNU In the World Program 2024 Rapporteur Report

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SNU In the World Program 2024 Rapporteur Report

Innovation, Science & Justice

University of California, Santa Cruz

January 23, 2024 – February 03, 2024

The Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) hosted its second year of the SNU in the World Program, with 29 visiting scholars (including Professor Doogab Yi, 2 graduate students, and 26 undergraduates) from Seoul National University (SNU). During their two-week stay, scholars engaged with various projects conducted at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) by SJRC affiliates. The SNU in the World Program, administered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at SNU, is a university-led and government-funded initiative to train South Korean undergraduate students to be globally engaged scholars and leaders. The SNU in the World Program at UCSC is one of five other programs selected for funding and focuses on Innovation, Science and Justice. Other SNU Programs included visits to Washington DC (public policy), Japan (sustainable development), and Australia (climate crisis).

The program was once again facilitated by Doogab Yi, Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University, who brought together a diverse group of students from fields including the biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, industrial design, pharmacy, dentistry, sociology, anthropology, business administration, and fine arts. Over the two-week program students participated in an in-depth series of lectures, workshops, a film screening and live performance, and field trips to the surrounding Bay Area museums, cultural centers, and sites of innovation such as Google and an AI enabled lab at Stanford University Hospital. Activities focused on exploring cutting-edge issues including stem cell innovation in organoid intelligence, data and information justice, engineering and AI ethics, health equity, land and site-based practices, and ecological reparations.

Crown College Provost Manel Camps provided the students with an introduction to initiatives in innovation at UC Santa Cruz.  These included the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), which promotes the development, research, and teaching of innovation and entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, the Innovation and Business Engagement Hub, and with the Student Creativity Empowerment and Entrepreneurship association (SCEE). SJRC co-directors Jenny Reardon and James Doucet-Battle then took the lead framing the key learning outcomes of the visit centering on pressing topics of bioethics, health disparities, and equitable research. Previous and current projects affiliated with SJRC such as the the Leadership in Ethical & Equitable Design (LEED) of STEM Research Project and the University of California – Historically Black Colleges and Universities (UC-HBCU) Initiative provided insights into the Center’s efforts to center issues of equity and justice in science and engineering. 

This year’s SNU in the World program provided an opportunity to bring together a diverse community of researchers, scholars, artists, and policy makers who work in the domain of Science and Justice at UCSC and in the broader Bay Area. On their first day, they had a chance to be in conversation with Tiffany Wise-West, the Sustainability and Climate Action Manager for The City of Santa Cruz and a founding graduate fellow of the Science & Justice Training Program. In this conversation they learned about innovative relationships, environmental justice and the city.

Over dinner that first evening, they met with undergraduate student fellows in the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change. The Everett Program develops young leaders who use the technical, educational, and research resources of the university to work directly with communities, empowering people to develop practical solutions to persistent problems.

Over the following days, students had a chance to engage with a variety of areas and topics. In a session with the UCSC IBSC Stem Cell Journal Club, the visitors engaged in rich conversation surrounding bioethical questions raised by the innovative biotechnological research in organoid intelligence. UCSC Professor of History Ben Breene and Roya Pakzad, Founder and Director of Taraaz, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of technology and human rights, raised the question of ethical dilemmas in engineering from a global historical perspective, while two faculty members in the History of Consciousness department, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos, approached the question of ecological justice from the framework of community technoscience. Leilani Gilpin and Carolina Flores, Assistant Professors in Computer Science and Engineering and Philosophy respectively, presented their collaborative work on the topic of justice in data science. Chessa Adsit-Morris and James Karabin, graduate researchers in SJRC’s Leadership in the Ethical and Equitable Design (LEED) Initiative, also focused on addressing issues of equity at intellectual and institutional levels in science and engineering.

This year, a series of performances, exhibitions, and film screenings complemented core themes of the lectures. A live performance of Strata: A Performance of Topography, an improvisational documentary meditating on land-based histories, shared thematic resonances with Connie Zheng and Kevin Corcoran’s lecture on land and site-based artistic research practices. Another highlight of the artistic contributions of the program was a screening of Richland, the 2023 documentary film by filmmaker Irene Lusztig centering on the residents and nuclear site workers of Hanford, a manufacturing company of weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project in the town Richland, Washington. The collective viewing of the film was effective in bringing about cross-cultural exchange of significant social, political, and national differences about world historical events such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The visitors’ responses to the film showed how the technology of nuclear bombs signifying American imperialism could also be framed as an anti-colonial technology in Korea. Both perspectives raise difficult questions about the role of normalized ideologies in justifying immense violence. 

Outside of UCSC, the group participated in several field trips throughout the local Bay Area. They were welcomed to the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Campus by Julie Harris-Wai, an Associate Professor at UCSF’s Institute for Health and Aging in the School of Nursing. Visitors embarked on a walking tour of Third Street led by Reardon and researcher Dennis Browe as part of SJRC’s Just Biomedicine project. Just Biomedicine is a research collective that critically examines the meeting of biomedicine, biotechnology, and big data along the Third Street corridor in the Mission-Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The walking tour was designed to allow participants to think critically about who and what research infrastructures (such as buildings) are for when confronted by accessibility, surveillance, and social stratification issues in the urban landscape. Visitors also had ample free time to explore the city by attending de Young Museum, SF MOMA, and biking the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito before visiting Paul Tang’s AI enabled Lab at Stanford Hospital and touring UC Berkeley. 

After traveling back to Santa Cruz, SNU students worked in groups to synthesize their lessons throughout the two-week program into conference-style presentations. During the project development phase, groups discussed and debated a number of issues. At the end of the two-week program, teams presented their final research projects covering topics including: the role of artificial intelligence in mental health sciences; access to medical care and the power of walking ethnographies. All of these projects attempted to apply and analyze practical approaches to addressing issues of equity and justice in the realms of science and technology.

To take part in or contribute to this partnership for the next visit in late January 2025, please contact Jenny Reardon (reardon1@ucsc.edu) and Colleen Stone (colleen@ucsc.edu).

2024 SNU Visiting Students

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Graduate Researchers

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Undergraduate Researchers

Group 1:

Jaehoon Jeong 

Giyun Choi is a junior majoring in Chemical&Biological Engineering at Seoul National University. He is especially interested in Energy process system engineering. So he plans to learn more about process control, optimization and modeling.

Yoon Lee is a junior studying Sociology and Science and Technology Studies at Seoul National University. He is interested in how diverse “situated knowledges” are constructed in societies. In particular, he finds it fun how heterogenous actors entangle and understand each other within medical practices. Also, he is recently getting into AI as a new important actor producing scientific knowledge.

Eunhye Kim is a senior student majoring in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering. She has a keen interest in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ergonomics. Previously, she participated in a project designing a human-machine interface for semi-autonomous vehicles. Currently, she is conducting research in HCI, aiming to help users bridge the gap between text and image data in the fashion domain. Apart from academics, she enjoys jogging, swimming, and visiting art galleries.

Che Young Yoon is a junior at Seoul National University. She belongs to the College of Liberal Studies and is majoring in psychology and business administration. She has been interested in law since young, so she wanted to go to law school, but recently, she became interested in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. By combining law and neuroscience, she wants to create innovations that use psychological mechanisms to determine whether statements are true in court. She is interested in grasping people’s habits based on psychological knowledge and applying them to the field of law, beyond simply judging the authenticity of statements.

Group 2:

Seung Seok Oh is a senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University. Having strong belief in a word “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” by Arthur C. Clark, I am deeply fascinated by engineering, especially robotics and aerospace. I am also interested in Silicon Valley startups that are rapidly changing the face of the world.

Hangyeol Go

Nayeon Joh

Minjae Kim is a junior majoring in Pharmacy at Seoul National University. She is very interested in pharmaceutical industry and medical health system. So she wants to learn more about new drug development and research issues that pharmaceutical companies focusing on. Also she wants to know about policies and systems that can help more people become healthy.

Chaehyeon Kim is junior majoring in economics and Management of Technology and recently taking a year off to do an internship at AI startup as a developer. She is interested in the dynamics between technology and society, and especially how the start-up companies change the everyday life of people. Throughout the internship experience, she became concerned with the social structural solution of the situations that start-up companies face but which are difficult to manage to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

Group 3:

Dong Uk Kim is a junior at Seoul National University, is majoring in Nuclear Engineering, with a keen focus on materials science within this field. He actively explores innovative nuclear plant designs and the critical materials required for their construction. He is also interested in assessing the role of nuclear energy in ethical and policy aspect, particularly as it relates to the global transition towards a low-carbon future.

JunHyeok Park

Nahyun Kim is a junior majoring in Painting at the Collage of Fine Arts and Anthropology at the Collage of Social Science. I am interested in how our visual culture has influenced our identity. In particular, I am interested in the methodology that Japan adopted after World War II to explain its own visual culture as ‘Japan’s uniqueness’ by separating it from Western influences, and the dangers of the linear historical perspective it entails. In relation to this program, I want to take a closer look at the potential social alienation that various revolutions in science and technology might bring about. By doing so, I aim to explore the possibility of caring for more microscopic extras by the area of art, rather than focusing on macroscopic transformations.

Yeongseo Shin is a junior majoring in college of Pharmacy at Seoul National University. I am very interested in science that considers society. I would like to ask how the U.S. viewed and responded to the reality of the medical gap, especially in the ‘health disparity’ class. I am also curious about the level of personalized medical care and the status of social institutions in the United States. Also, I wonder development of social, legal and ethical discussion about new technology innovation. I’m looking forward to getting diverse experiences and insights through this program!

Yoonwon Lee is a freshman majoring in Business at Seoul National University.

Group 4:

Hyeokjung Choi is a junior majoring in Business Administration at Seoul National University. He is deeply passionate about the innovation and productivity that flourish within a free and dynamic market, and hopes to provide a stable foundation for it. Currently, his field of interest is the appropriate valuation of technological innovations and IPOs of related start-ups, which accompanies due diligence. Also, he is interested in various topics of finance including financial crisis and its relation with governmental activities.

Kyunghoon Han is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering. I’m interested in AI technology and robotics. I’m planning to study and research some wearable devices. Through this snu-in program, I want to discuss social problems related to science technology like AI. Also, it will be a great time to share idea about science issue like CES2024 while touring companies in silicon valley.

Jwa Yewon is a freshman majoring in Medicine at Seoul National University. I think that future innovations such as genetic motification may impact on social inequility if we use these not properly, so i am interested in the way that we take advantage of innovations wisely and i want to shate various ideas with you !

Minyoung Shin is a biology major, and the reason I love biology is because the more I learn, the more I understand about human beings and life. It fascinates me that we can use the scientific method to find answers to questions like “Who am I? How does my body and mind work?” So I’m particularly interested in genetics, which explains the origins of humanity and our innate dispositions, and neuroscience, which allows us to understand human thoughts and emotions as electrochemical interactions. I’m also very interested in STS, which studies the relationship between science, people, and society. This semester, I took some courses that allowed me to broaden my horizons by discussing issues related to science and technology from a social and philosophical perspective. I hope to gain a variety of experiences at SNU in San Francisco to further refine my interests.

Seeun Lee is a junior majoring in Food Biotechnology at Seoul National University. I have a lot of interest in “Decarbonization of the Food Industry”. Furthermore, I wish to learn about the recent researches going on and values that IT giants are pursuing in the biomedical field. 

Group 5:

Junwoo Kim is a sophomore majoring in business administration at College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University. He’s also considering to major in architecture or design his own Student Designed Major combining architecture, sociology and anthropology. His interests can divided in two ways; interest in start-ups as a job, and personal interest in architecture or urban sociology especially how people and any buildings, cities, places, or any ‘spaces’ interact with each other. Also it has been always most interesting part for him that how companies make innovation and change the world.

Seunghoon Oh is a junior majoring in Biological Sciences at Seoul National University. He is especially interested in fields including structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics. He aims to develop a novel process for drug discovery through biophysical research, and eventually improve the affordability of personalized medicine.

Wonjae Shin is a sophomore majoring in Energy Resources Engineering at Seoul National University. He is interested in various fields surrounding energy and resources, such as GIS, energy markets, and petroleum. In particular, he is interested in the distribution of energy based on economics.

Younjin Kang is a junior majoring in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, and double majoring in Computer Science Engineering. While studying artificial intelligence, she became interested in robotics and continues to study this field. Beyond technical expertise, she is passionate about understanding the social context and ethical responsibilities that accompany engineering applications.

Chaemi Song is a junior majoring in Business Administration and double majoring in Computer Science. Her academic journey is characterized by a profound interest not only in the technical aspects of artificial intelligence but also in the broader context that has shaped its evolution.  She is particularly fascinated by the interplay between technological advancements and their societal impacts, especially in the realm of AI. She aims to acquire a nuanced perspective on AI that encompasses both its technological potential and its transformative role in shaping the future of human society.

Daeun Kim is a freshman majoring in Dentistry at Seoul National University School of Dentistry. While taking a Global Citizenship Education(GCED) course, she became conscious about global inequity in access to oral health care. She seeks applicable model for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) especially on oral health care. 

SNU In the World Program 2023 Rapporteur Report

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SNU In the World Program 2023 Rapporteur Report

Innovation, Science & Justice

University of California, Santa Cruz

January 29, 2023 – February 11, 2023

Over a two-week period in early 2023, the Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) hosted 27 visiting scholars (including Professor Doogab Yi, 4 graduate students, and 22 undergraduates) from Seoul National University (SNU) as part of the SNU in the World Program to learn about the work being done at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) by SJRC affiliates. The SNU in the World Program, administered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at SNU, is a university-led and government-funded initiative to train South Korean undergraduate students to be globally engaged scholars and leaders. The SNU in the World Program at UCSC is one of five other programs selected for funding and focuses on Innovation, Science and Justice. Other SNU Programs included visits to Washington DC (public policy), Japan (sustainable development), and Australia (climate crisis).

The program was facilitated by Doogab Yi, Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University, who brought together a diverse group of students from fields including the biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, industrial design, philosophy, sociology, english, business administration, and fashion design. Over the two-week program students participated in an in-depth series of lectures, workshops, reading groups, and field trips focused on exploring some of today’s most pressing issues including biomedical innovation, environmental justice, climate change, health equity, and toxic ecologies. Students were also able to participate in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” by attending Kaushik Sunder Rajar’s lecture “Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research.”

With the SJRC, SNU visiting scholars learned about a few of the projects and initiatives SJRC co-directors Jenny Reardon and James Doucet-Battle are working on, including an initiative by the University of California with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (UC-HBCU) a partnership with North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University aimed at improving diversity in UC doctoral biology programs, as well as the Leadership in Ethical & Equitable Design (LEED) of STEM Research Project. Both projects are aimed at increasing diversity within STEM research and addressing issues of equity at the intellectual and institutional level in order to secure more just and equitable forms of science and engineering. The group also met with SJRC affiliates and student fellows in the UCSC Sustainability Office, the UCSC Genomics Institute, and joined for a session of the UCSC IBSC Stem Cell Journal Club. In these sessions, they explored issues ranging from bioethical questions raised by innovative biotechnologies like stem cells, to human rights issues raised by technologies of war.

The group participated in several field trips throughout the local Bay Area including visiting with Dongoh Park, Senior Policy Advisor for Google’s Global Trust and Safety Team on the Google campus in Silicon Valley. The group also visited the UC San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay to learn about the cutting edge research and clinical treatment innovations there as well as the justice issues raised by the building of the Google campus. A highlight of the field trip was a lecture by Fred Turner, Professor of Communication at Stanford University who also serves on the SJRC Advisory Board. Professor Turner’s talk, “Cultures of Innovation,” drew on research from his award winning book From Counterculture to Cyberculture and explored how culture creates ideological models for the reimagination of technology. Turner showed how the 1960s counterculture movement influenced the emergence of cyberculture. Both are predicated on technology as a tool for personal transformation, and labor as a tool for personal growth.

While in San Francisco students participated in a walking tour of Third Street as part of the SJRC’s Just Biomedicine project. Just Biomedicine is a SJRC research collective that critically examines the meeting of biomedicine, biotechnology, and big data along the Third Street corridor in the Mission-Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The walking tour was designed to allow participants to view how technoscientific transformations can build into cityscapes new inequalities and injustices (i.e., new challenges to democratic governance; new surveillance regimes; and new forms of social stratification). The walking tour allowed participants to experience the stratified health and wealth outcomes of the push towards biomedical innovation in San Francisco.

The SNU students worked in groups throughout the two-week program to explore various issues of interest and develop a group project. During the project development phase, groups discussed and debated a number of issues, including: broadening definitions of diversity and inclusion; reconceiving relationships between science and justice; and understanding the role of histories of injustices in current regimes of conducting and governing technoscience.

“Diversity is an open attitude that understands and respects various individuals and groups and does not exclude unjustly.”  

From the presentation, “Diversity: Aligning the Ideal with the Practical,” by Min Joo Lee, Hyeon Beom Choi, Su Hyun Hur, & Yi Ji Kim.

At the end of the two-week program, project teams presented their final group research projects. Final projects covered topics including: 

  • how historical cases of injustice and discrimination have led to mistrust of the contemporary healthcare system; (Link)
  • the need to address both ethical and practical aspects of diversity through the development of policies and incentives to enhance diversity; (Link)
  • how the theoretical concept of slow science can be applied through an Environmental Social Governance (ESG) model; (Link)
  • what environmental justice issues vulnerable populations in Korea are currently facing; and (Link)
  • how the drive towards innovation has historically resulted in exploitation, inequity, and discrimination highlighting the new for “Just Innovation.” (Link)

All of these projects attempted to apply and analyze practical approaches to addressing issues of equity and justice in the realms of science and technology.

If you are interested in presenting or meeting with SNU in late January 2024 or late January 2025, please contact Jenny Reardon (reardon1@ucsc.edu) and Colleen Stone (colleen@ucsc.edu).

Photos:

Students during a lecture.

Image 1: Group lecture in the Oakes College Mural Room with Tiffany Wise-West, Sustainability and Climate Action Manager, City of Santa Cruz. Photo by Jenny Reardon.

Professor Jenny Reardon (UCSC) and Professor Doogab Yi (SNU) smiling at camera.

Image 2: Professor Jenny Reardon (UCSC) and Professor Doogab Yi (SNU). Photo by Colleen Stone.

The Joan and Sanford Weill Neurosciences Building.

Image 3: Third Street Walking Tour, San Francisco. Photo by Dennis Browe or Jenny Reardon in front of the Joan and Sanford Weill Neurosciences Building.

Jun Kim, Jeongin Baek, Hyeonyeong Lee, and Geon Jeremiah Heo presenting.

Image 4: Presentation by Jun Kim, Jeongin Baek, Hyeonyeong Lee, and Geon Jeremiah Heo on February 9th, 2023. Image by Jenny Reardon.

Professor Jenny Reardon presenting a lecture on the ethics of biotechnology to the UCSC IBSC Stem Cell Journal Club and SNU visitors.

Image 5: Professor Jenny Reardon presenting a lecture on the ethics of biotechnology to the UCSC IBSC Stem Cell Journal Club and SNU visitors. Image by Chessa Adsit-Morris.

January 21-February 03, 2024 | SNU in the World Program Visit

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January 21-February 03, 2024
Schedule and Participants

IAS, 3rd Floor Conference Room + various locations on campus and in town

The SNU in the World Program, administered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at Seoul National University (https://oia.snu.ac.kr/snu-world-program-swp) is a university-led and government-funded initiative to train undergraduate students to be globally engaged scholars and leaders. The SNU in the World Program with the Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) at UC Santa Cruz is coordinated through the Science & Justice Research Center’s Visiting Scholar Program with Doogab Yi, Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University (https://bit.ly/2P9b7Wi). The SNU in the World Program at UC Santa Cruz is one of five other programs selected for funding and focuses on Innovation, Science and Justice. Other SNU Programs include visits to Washington DC (public policy), Japan (sustainable development), and Australia (climate crisis).

In January and February 2024, the SJRC will host Professor Doogab Yi, 2 graduate students and 26 undergraduate students for two weeks. This years’ program will consist of a series of lectures with affiliated faculty at UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco, and Stanford along with field trips to the surrounding Bay Area museums, cultural centers, and sites of innovation such as Google. A welcome dinner at the Namaste Lounge, a screening of Richland (a film by Irene Lusztig), a live performance of Strata: A Performance of Topography, social gatherings, and a final student presentation over lunch are also planned. Select in-person lectures and activities allow for a few additional guests to join. People are encouraged to express interest by selecting which activities they are interested in attending by marking any that apply in this Google Form. Refer to the Winter 2024 Schedule and Participant Biographies.

For additional information contact Jenny Reardon (reardon1@ucsc.edu) and Colleen Stone (colleen@ucsc.edu).

Doogab Yi currently works on several projects related to the development of science and technology within the context of capitalism, such as the history of biotechnology, the relationship between science and the law, and the emergence of the technologies of the 24/7 self. He teaches courses in the history of modern science, science and the law, and environmental history.

Call for Participation

Winter 2024 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)

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The Science & Justice Research Center and the SNU in the World Program are now accepting applications for a:

Winter Graduate Student Research Fellow

This position supports The SNU in the World Program, administered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at Seoul National University (https://oia.snu.ac.kr/page/o_snu_in_world_programs.php), a university-led and government-funded initiative to train undergraduate students to be globally engaged scholars and leaders. The SNU in the World Program with the Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) at UC Santa Cruz is coordinated through the Science & Justice Research Center’s Visiting Scholar Program with Doogab Yi, Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University (https://bit.ly/2P9b7Wi). The SNU in the World Program at UC Santa Cruz is one of five other programs selected for funding and focuses on Innovation, Science and Justice. Other SNU Programs include visits to Washington DC (public policy), Japan (sustainable development), and Australia (climate crisis).

In consultation with PI Jenny Reardon (Sociology) and Colleen Stone (Program Manager) at the Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) and PI Doogab Yi (SNU), one graduate student researcher will be offered a 12.5% GSRship (a total of 60 hours) to develop and implement the proposed research visit, help advise and welcome visiting students.

The researcher will: 1) assist developing and organizing a two-week program (in Santa Cruz and in the greater Bay Area) of invited presenters discussing a variety of topics on Innovation, Science and Justice, 2) help implement activities during visit, 3) engage SNU students providing guidance on final presentations, 4) survey visitors for feedback on visit, soliciting pictures and final student presentations to post to the project website and inform the next years’ visit, and 5) generate a final report on activities.

More information about “The SNU in the World Program” project along with links to previous program’s can be found on the project webpage.

The Student Must:

  • Be currently enrolled as a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz (any discipline).
  • Be interested in strengthening partnerships with SNU visitor’s and UCSC Korean students, and in innovation, science and justice studies.
  • Be available to be in Santa Cruz for the two-week long visit (January 22 – February 02, 2024).

The Student Will:

  • Be offered a 12.5% GSRship from Jan 08 – Feb 28. Date range and step to be confirmed upon acceptance of offer.
  • Be offered a winter fellowship with the SJRC and listed on the Project’s webpage.
  • Work closely with a team to develop clear goals and programming, and assist student groups with final projects. 
  • Submit an end-of-visit report of activities with suggestions for future programming.

To Apply:

By Friday, December 01 at 12 Noon, email (scijust@ucsc.edu) expressing interest, letting us know and sending the following:

  1. Your name, home department, academic faculty advisor(s).
  2. Your resume/CV.
  3. Why you are interested in the project and how your learning/research/career goals would benefit from the fellowship.
  4. Your experiences with the project topic, if any.
  5. Briefly describe any ideas for programming.

SNU in the World Winter 2023 Schedule

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Professor Yi along with 26 undergraduate and graduate students will visit Santa Cruz beginning Sunday, January 29th for a two week visit! Select in-person lectures and activities allow for a few additional guests to join. Express interest by selecting which activities you are interested in attending by marking any that apply in this Google Form. Note: times will be posted as confirmed.

All activities are in-person unless otherwise noted.

Day 1 Sunday, January 29: Free Exploration + Arrival to Santa Cruz

  • Travel to Santa Cruz, check into hotel, sightsee and explore as time permits.

Day 2 Monday, January 30: UC Santa Cruz

  • 11:00 am – 12:30 pm. Welcome Lunch + Lecture with JENNY REARDON: “Welcome and Introduction to the Science & Justice Research Center: Origins of Science & Justice and Current Activities” [Location: The Oakes College Mural Room].
  • 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm. Lecture: KAREN MIGA, JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE, and JENNY REARDON: “Personalized Medicine, Biotechnology, Justice, and Inclusion” [Location: The Oakes College Mural Room].
  • 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm. Welcome Dinner with SNU + UCSC Participants and Organizers [Location: Oakes College Provost House].

Day 3 Tuesday, January 31: UC Santa Cruz

  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am. Lecture: JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE: “Training the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers.” A conversation through a compounded STS, ELSI/bioethics, and health disparities lens, with allied reference to SJRC’s UC-HBCU work with North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and the UCSC Genomics Institute. [Location: The Oakes College Mural Room].
  • 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm. Lecture with C.O.A.S.T.: JEREMY SANFORD and JENNY REARDON: “Open Access Splicing Therapeutics: for rare diseases and the questions of ethics and justice raised by this novel area of research.” [reading: 2021 Lakshman “Normalizing Slow Science.”] [Location: Biomed 300; map].

Day 4 Wednesday, February 01: UC Santa Cruz + Free Exploration Downtown Santa Cruz

  • 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Sawyer Seminar with KAUSHIK SUNDER RAJAN on Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research [Location: Humanities 1, Room 210; map].

Day 5 Thursday, February 02: Free Exploration San Francisco

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Visit de Young Museum
  • Free Exploration at Golden Gate Park
  • 5:00 pm Dinner at San Francisco Piers
  • 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Visit Exploratorium After Dark exhibit
  • 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Return to Carousel Beach Inn

Day 6 Friday, February 03: Silicon Valley 

  • Stanford University campus tour
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm. Computer History Museum
  • 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch with DONGOH PARK
  • 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Google Office Tour with DONGOH PARK (Senior Policy Advisor, Global Policy & Standards, Trust & Safety).
  • 2:30-3:30 pm Lecture: DONGOH PARK: “Google’s Trust and Safety Operations”
  • 6:30 pm Dinner with SNU OIA DIRECTORS [Location: TBD near Carousel Beach Inn]

Day 7 Saturday, February 04: San Francisco

  • Morning: Free Exploration
  • 1:00 pm. “Welcome To UC San Francisco” by JULIE HARRIS-WAI. [Location UC San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus, Fisher Banquet West room]
  • 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm. Discussion with FRED TURNER (Stanford University) on “Arts and Innovation”. [Location UC San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus, Fisher Banquet West room].
  • 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm. DENNIS BROWE (UCSC), Introduction to the Just Biomedicine “SF Third Street Project.”
  • 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm. “SF Third Street Walking Tour” with JENNY REARDON and DENNIS BROWE. [Begins at UCSF Mission Bay campus].

Day 8 Sunday, February 05: Free Exploration

  • 8:30 am – 10:00 am. Carousel Beach Inn → San Francisco MoMA
  • 10:00 am. Free Exploration of San Francisco MoMA
  • Ragnar Kjartansson, *The Visitors* (“Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An Oral History of Ragnar Kjartansoon’s multimedia masterpiece”)
  • TBD Option 1: Bike across Golden Gate Bridge (rentals: Sports Basement in the Presidio, Blazing Saddles, Golden Gate Bridge Bike Rentals).
  • TBD Option 2: walking tour of Haight-Ashbury, Castro District, and Twin Peaks
  • TBD Option 3: laze away at North Beach coffee houses, browse through books at City Lights Bookstore
  • 6:30 pm. Dinner at Haight-Ashbury
  • 8:00-9:30 pm. San Francisco → Carousel Beach Inn

Day 9 Monday, February 06: UC Santa Cruz

  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm. Lecture: ANNA FRIZ, YOUNGEUN KIM, DOROTHY SANTOS: “Arts and AI Innovations” [Location: The Oakes College Mural Room].
  • 1:30 pm. Lecture and Lab Visit with TAMARA PICO: “Geoscience and Colonialism” [Location: Earth & Planetary Sciences A308, map].
  • 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm. Lecture: CHESSA ADSIT-MORRIS: “Leadership in the Equitable and Ethical Design (LEED) of STEM Research.” [reading: 2023. Reardon et all. “Trustworthiness Matters: Building Equitable and Ethical Science” CELL] [Location: The Oakes College Mural Room].
  • 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm. Conversation + team dinner with the UCSC EVERETT PROGRAM FELLOWS and CHRIS BENNER [Location: room 47, Social Sciences 2 Building, map]

Day 10 Tuesday, February 07: UC Santa Cruz

Day 11 Wednesday, February 08: UC Santa Cruz

Day 12 Thursday, February 09: UC Santa Cruz, Farewell + Free Exploration

  • 10:00 am. SNU Student FINAL PRESENTATIONS + Farewell Lunch with SNU + SJRC organizers [Location: The Oakes College Mural Room].
  • Travel from Santa Cruz to the Bay Area for Free Exploration

Day 13 Friday, February 10: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area

  • Field trip to TBD

Day 14 Saturday, February 11: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area

  • Field trip to TBD