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December 12, 2017

Naming and Framing Citizen Concerns about Emerging Technology

Jason Lloyd

How can researchers engage the public on complex, profoundly important science and technology issues? First, throw out the deficit model of science communication and listen to the concerns of everyday citizens. Kettering Foundation research has long found that there is…

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October 10, 2017

Exploring the Value of Public Forums for Building Consensus and Changing Perspectives

Jason Lloyd

Over the summer, Nich Weller wrote about the “power of conversation,” reflecting on a public forum in Boston that brought together public participants and facilitators and staff from the Museum of Science to discuss the challenges of sea level rise…

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May 10, 2017

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Jason Lloyd

A couple of weeks ago, Bret Stephens, the new columnist for The New York Times, wrote a fairly anodyne inaugural essay about the dangers of complete certainty, particularly certainty based on data-dependent predictive modeling. “We live in a world in…

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March 8, 2016

Teaching Bioethics With Pool Noodles

Lori Hidinger

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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March 2, 2015

Scientists Have Feelings Too

Lori Hidinger

The precarious balance between subjectivity and objectivity in science I was a scientist just a few years out of graduate school when I had a career-altering experience speaking with a man in tears at a community workshop. A large cluster…

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February 23, 2015

Storify on Becoming a Global Scientist: Science Diplomacy for Early Career Researchers

Lori Hidinger

<a href="http://cspo pop over to this site.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Storify-MargaGualDoler.jpg”> Marga Gual Soler speaking with panel. Photo: Thomas Seager Dr. Marga Gual Soler, Assistant Research Professor at CSPO/School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at ASU and Dr. Mandë Holford, Professor of…

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October 14, 2014

Ebola case shows importance of teamwork in healthcare

Lori Hidinger

by Heather Ross, HSD Student The White House’s announcement on Friday that it has Ebola “under control” is patently ridiculous. As we witnessed with the case in Dallas last week, and have been reminded by the failure of a properly…

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July 1, 2014

Where Are Today’s Engineering Heroes?

Kyle Larkin

CSPO Professor of Practice Gregg Zachary’s cover story in IEEE Spectrum launches a new public crusade: Engineering needs more heroes. <img class="alignright wp-image-586 size-medium" src="http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-343×530.jpg" alt="Supergirl-illumistrations" width="343" height="530" srcset="http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-343×530.jpg 343w, http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-207×320.jpg 207w, http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1 collaboration tools for business.jpg 400w” sizes=”(max-width: 343px)…

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March 17, 2014

Brazil as Bureaucratic Dystopia

Kyle Larkin

Arizona State University President Michael Crow and Dan Sarewitz, Co-Director of ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, hosted a free screening of director Terry Gilliam’s cult classic Brazil. Held at the Landmark E Street Cinema in downtown Washington, DC,…

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