CSPO News

• The Frankenstein Bicentennial Project

  Three Arizona State University researchers, including the co-director of CSPO, Dave Guston, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a workshop to build a global, multi-institutional network of collaborators to celebrate the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.”

• Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

  Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be detrimental to three essential food crops in temperate and tropical regions.

• Climate policy robs the world’s poor of their hopes

  “If we are forced to adapt to life on a planet with a less hospitable climate, the poor should at least confront the challenge with the same advantages that are enjoyed by the rich” say Dan Sarewitz and Roger Pielke in an article published in Financial Times.

• Will Technology Make Work Better for Everyone?

  PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Miles Brundage, comments on the future of technology and work.

• Make science seen as bipartisan

  Daniel Sarewitz, co-director of CSPO, calls for changing the image of scientists from Democratic interest group to “independent national asset” for the benefit of all. Read his article, Science must be seen to bridge the political divide, in Nature.

• CSPO Graduation Spotlight: John Carter McKnight

  This spring, John CarternMcKnight became the first graduate of ASU’s innovative PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology.