New Course Combines Art and Engineering
COMS W4995-008 Interactive Stories with AR/AI, taught by Amir Baradaran is open to undergraduate and graduate students across the university. Students will experiment with the concept of art-based creative research where artists and engineers come together to create interactive stories using augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI). This class is working towards a multi-layered […]
Center for Science and Society 2017-2018 Newsletter
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to present its End of Year Newsletter which includes information and reviews about Center activities in the 2018-2019 academic year and offers a preview of upcoming events in Fall 2018. The newsletter and our digital archive are available online. Please visit MailChimp to sign up for our newsletters.
Public Outreach Grants Awarded
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to award its first cycle of public outreach grants. These grants fund projects that have one or more of the following aims: — Help boost public understanding of societal concerns surrounding science, technology, or medicine; — Teach K-12 students about current issues in science and society; or […]
Public Outreach Spotlight: Christopher Medina-Kirchner
2017-2018 has been a busy and successful academic year for the Center for Science and Society. This summer, we are producing a short newsletter series to celebrate and share all that we have accomplished! We hope you enjoyed our first issue on seed grants and our news article about Awardee Ben Mylius. Our second issue highlighted […]
Books by Founding Director Pamela Smith Reissued
Pamela Smith’s The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution has just been reissued in paperback and electronic editions. Her The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire was also recently published in a second paperback and electronic edition with a new preface by the author. Pamela Smith is the Founding […]
Research Cluster Spotlight: Science and Subjectivity
2017-2018 has been a busy and successful academic year for the Center for Science and Society. This summer, we are producing a short newsletter series to celebrate and share all that we have accomplished! We hope you enjoyed our first issue on seed grants and our news article about Awardee Ben Mylius. Today, we are highlighting […]
Presidential Scholar Matteo Farinella Published in American Scientist
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience Matteo Farinella wrote an article for the July-August 2018 issue of American Scientist, discussing the communicative power of comics in science.
PSSN Scholar Andrew Goldman Publishes Paper and Featured in Columbia News
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience Andrew Goldman has been published in the Psychology of Music journal. Alongside co-authors Tyreek Jackson (St. John’s University) and Paul Sajda (Columbia University), Andrew published “Improvisation experience predicts how musicians categorize musical structures.” Dr. Sajda also serves as one of Andrew’s faculty mentors. With the help of PSSN Scholar Lan […]
Seed Grant Spotlight: Ben Mylius
The Center for Science and Society is pleased to announce its 2018 Seed Grant recipients. Projects were awarded funding to support their proposals for research, events, conferences, and workshops on interdisciplinary topics in Science and Society. This year, the Center has awarded funding to seven interdisciplinary projects led by faculty from a number of departments at […]
Cluster Leader Robert Pollack Collaborates with American Folk Art Museum
Science and Subjectivity Cluster Leader Robert Pollack, along with Cluster Advisory Board Member Amy Pollack are collaborating with the American Folk Art Museum and participating in the “Exploring the Poetical Sciences: The Story of Edward and Orra White Hitchcock” symposium to be held September 17, 2018. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibit “Charting the Divine […]
