14 March 2022: It was announced that I have been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Holberg Prize for pioneering work in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies
8 March 2021: We have launched the website for the Global Observatory for Genome Editing, which I direct. We are searching for a postdoctoral fellow to join the Observatory; applications are due by April 15.
26 February 2021: A new commentary piece on the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Was ‘science’ on the ballot?,” coauthored with Stephen Hilgartner and J. Benjamin Hurlbut, has been published in Science.
25 February 2021: My essay, “The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age,” has been published as the lead article in a special issue of the Hastings Center Report on “Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose.”
17 February 2021: I spoke about my book Can Science Make Sense of Life, in a panel with comments by Andrew Nelson and Françoise Baylis, at an event hosted by the University of Oregon’s Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.
12 January 2021: The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, spoke about our Comparative Covid Response study in his remarks at today’s Futures Forum on Preparedness, sponsored by Schmidt Futures and the Social Sciences Research Council.
12 January 2021: My colleagues and I have released the initial report from our Comparative Covid Response project. This cross-national study of responses to Covid-19 in sixteen countries across five continents, undertaken by 78 researchers from 47 institutions, outlines lessons learned across nations and offers recommendations to improve public health interventions.
7 January 2021: My commentary, “Temptations of technocracy in the century of engineering,” has been published as the lead article in the fiftieth-anniversary issue of The Bridge, the publication of the National Academy of Engineering.