Interested in how science, technology, and society interact? Find out more information about the Science and Technology in Society Teaching Group professors and the undergraduate courses they teach at the University of Waterloo.
Saturday, October 19, 2013 — 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM EDT
One of the featured speakers at the University of Western Ontario conference on Twenty-first Century Feminism and the Academy is Carla Fehr, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy.
The title of Dr. Fehr's talk is Excellent Science: of the People, by the People, for the People.
Friday, October 18, 2013 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Alan Richardson
University of British Columbia
The Social Virtue of Science: Motivating the Structural Objectivity of Early Logical Empiricism
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 — 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM EDT
Friday, March 8, 2013 — 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM EST
The second annual Science and Technology in Society Day will be held at the Perimeter Institute this year and will bring together students and faculty from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University to discuss the role of women in science, how that role has changed through history, and where the future will take it.
Friday, February 1, 2013 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Nancy Tuana
Director, Rock Ethics Institute
Penn State University
Co-hosted with the Philosophy Department
Coupled Ethical-Epistemic Issues in the Climate Sciences