June 10, 2014: 24 Graduate Students Receive Science & Justice Certificate
The Science & Justice Research Center is proud to announce the recent campus approval of the Science & Justice Certificate Program. This certificate provides recognition to current graduate students who have developed collaborative research methods for exploring the meeting of questions of science and knowledge with questions of ethics and justice. For more pedagogical information… Continue Reading June 10, 2014: 24 Graduate Students Receive Science & Justice Certificate
March 7, 2014: SJRC Director, Jenny Reardon to give talk on “Bodies of Data: Public Participation, Governance and the New Bioinformatics” at ASU
On March 7th, 2014 Science & Justice Director, Jenny Reardon along with Erik Aarden of Harvard, and Patrick Taylor from Boston Children’s will discuss Principles in Practice, a panel chaired by Jason Robert from the Center for Biology + Society at Arizona State University, Tempe. Recent developments at the intersection of biological, information and communications technologies have opened… Continue Reading March 7, 2014: SJRC Director, Jenny Reardon to give talk on “Bodies of Data: Public Participation, Governance and the New Bioinformatics” at ASU
Science & Justice Training Program: Grad Student Informational Meeting on New Cohort
The Science and Justice Research Center is hosting an Informational Meeting for a new cohort of our nationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2014 12:30-2:00 Muwekma Ohlone Conference Room 351 (Bay Tree Building, 3rd floor, upstairs from the Bay Tree Bookstore) Lunch Provided Our NSF-supported Science and Justice Training Program (SJTP) is… Continue Reading Science & Justice Training Program: Grad Student Informational Meeting on New Cohort
Reardon gives talk on The Post-Genomic Condition at UCSF
Dr. Jenny Reardon, University of California, Santa Cruz, Director, Science & Justice Research Center (UCSC) presents “The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge After the Genome” at the SBS Seminar Series at UCSF.
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Science & Justice releases Winter 2014 Newsletter
Science & Justice is pleased to announce the launching of our bi-annual newsletter. Read about our themes for the year, profiles on our visiting scholars and much more. Newsletters are available at Reports & Papers.
Interview with Science & Justice appears in the Danish Daily Information
Last June (2013), members of the Science & Justice Research Center were interviewed by former UCSC EAP (Education Abroad Program) student Bue Thastum. While the original interview appeared in the Danish Daily Information, below is the translated article. Should research create a better world? Science can have other forms of social relevance than just… Continue Reading Interview with Science & Justice appears in the Danish Daily Information
Jenny Reardon, Director of the SJRC, gives lecture in Clarke Forum Meanings of Race Series at Dickinson College
The opening decade of this millennium witnessed genome scientists, policy makers, critical race theorists and world leaders proclaiming the anti-racist democratic potential of human genomics. These views stand in stark contrast to the 1990s concern that genomics might create new forms of racism. This lecture explores this shift, both why it happened and what it reveals… Continue Reading Jenny Reardon, Director of the SJRC, gives lecture in Clarke Forum Meanings of Race Series at Dickinson College
UCSC Science and Justice Program Receives National Attention
UCSC Science and Justice Program Receives National Attention By Kara Guzman Santa Cruz Sentinel POSTED: 08/20/2013 05:53:05 PM PDT SANTA CRUZ — An interdisciplinary team of professors and graduate students from UC Santa Cruz’s Science & Justice Training Program have been recognized on the national stage for their work to integrate ethical training into scientific… Continue Reading UCSC Science and Justice Program Receives National Attention
Science and Justice Training Program explores ethics of scientific research
Science and Justice Training Program explores ethics of scientific research Founders and participants outline program in ‘PLOS Biology’ By Guy Lasnier Jenny Reardon is an associate professor of sociology and co-director of the Science and Justice Training Program. Co-director Karen Barad is professor of feminist studies and history of consciousness. A subtle but significant shift in… Continue Reading Science and Justice Training Program explores ethics of scientific research
Andrew Mathews co-authors article on the contributions of anthropology to understanding climate change
SJRC Director Andrew Mathews contributed to a recently published Perspectives piece in Nature Climate Change (pdf here) detailing how anthropologists can contribute to understanding the social and political dynamics of climate change. In this piece, Barnes et al. identify three types of insights anthropologists are well suited to provide. First, the discipline draws attention to the cultural… Continue Reading Andrew Mathews co-authors article on the contributions of anthropology to understanding climate change