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March 8, 2016

Teaching Bioethics With Pool Noodles

The School for the Future of Innovation in Society joined with ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination to host a “ScribbleBot” activity on the Night of the Open Door at ASU’s Tempe Campus, February 27, 2016. (Reposted with permission;…

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December 16, 2015

What’s the real risk from consumer drones this holiday season?

This holiday season, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is estimating that over one million small “Unmanned Aerial Systems” (sUAS’s) – drones, to the rest of us – will be sold to consumers. But as hordes of novice pilots take to…

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December 13, 2015

Global breadbaskets at risk from unchecked greenhouse gas emissions

“Different regions around the world are poised to experience climate change differently, and the risks depend on both the climate change experienced, and the human systems on the ground there.” Our new study shows trouble ahead for feeding the world…

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December 11, 2015

Proposed changes to HHS ‘Common Rule’ are of little benefit

Recently proposed changes to the “Common Rule” by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and various other federal agencies, while aiming to enhance human subject protections for current and future research activities involving the ongoing storage and…

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December 8, 2015

The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions

In tandem with the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21)* in Paris, explore insight shared by CSPO faculty and affiliates regarding climate change and social impacts. *(Refers to countries that signed up to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on…

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December 4, 2015

Alternative political and policy pathways to tackling climate change challenge

In tandem with the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21)* in Paris, explore insight shared by CSPO faculty and affiliates regarding climate change and social impacts. *(Refers to countries that signed up to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on…

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December 3, 2015

Climate adaptation through innovation

In tandem with the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21)* in Paris, explore insight shared by CSPO faculty and affiliates regarding climate change and social impacts. *(Refers to countries that signed up to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on…

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July 8, 2015

Report from the Inaugural Science Diplomacy & Leadership Program in Washington DC

ASU’s Thomas P. Seager, Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, delivered a workshop on storytelling, proposal writing and building empathy in science diplomacy.     2015 Report from Participants From June 21 to 30,…

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June 2, 2015

New Book: A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China

The publication of the first scholarly book is likened to giving birth to a first child. Springer recently delivered my firstborn–A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China–a truncated monograph from my doctoral dissertation. A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China…

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