Current News — Science and Technology Studies

Prof. Emily Merchant Named an Aggie Hero!

STS Professor Emily Merchant has been named one of the 2018-19 Aggie Heroes — students, staff and faculty chosen throughout the academic year for “using their talents and powers for the greater good of our university and beyond.”

Nitika Mummidivarapu receives Gates-Cambridge Scholarship

Recent UC Davis graduate Nitika Mummidivarapu (Class of 2019) will be going to Cambridge University under a prestigious Gates-Cambridge Scholarship to pursue advanced study in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. She says that coursework in STS and English helped her forge a path leading from biochemistry to the history of science and then to medical school, looking ahead to a multilayered career as a physician and a writer.

Prof. Con Diaz named Editor in Chief of the journal IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Prof. Colin Milburn has published a new book: Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life

Prof. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli has published a new book: Digital Uncanny

Prof. Tim Lenoir has published a new book, The Military-Entertainment Complex

STS Professor Tim Lenoir’s new book, The Military-Entertainment Complex, co-authored with Luke Caldwell, is out!

Prof. Emily Merchant has published an article in The Conversation on the 2020 Census

In the article, entitled "Democracy is in danger when the census undercounts vulnerable populations," she discusses recent changes to the 2020 census and warns that "if the census is to guide the equitable distribution of political power and federal resources, it must also strive to count people as equitably as possible."

Prof. Con Diaz receives Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship

This is a year-long non-resident research fellowship from the law school at George Mason University, which will support Professor Diaz's research on intellectual property law.