CSPO News Announcements
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Spring 24 Newsletter
Welcome to Spring 2024! As the new season begins to bloom, we invite you to engage with CSPO’s latest developments. Take a moment to catch up on our latest research endeavors and upcoming events as CSPO continues to flourish in personnel, projects, and programs. We look forward to welcoming you this spring!
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Fall 2023 News & Events
Take a moment to catch up with CSPO, sign up for upcoming policy programs, and reconnect with our research and policy work. 2023 is proving to be a year of growth in personnel, projects, and programs at CSPO and we look forward to seeing you this fall!
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Highlighting public voices in CDR decision making
The If, the How and the Whether of Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies
CSPO; the Museum of Science, Boston; the University of Calgary; and other ECAST project partners join forces with diverse experts and everyday citizens to inform decision making on carbon dioxide removal technology.
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Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes welcomes new director Arthur Daemmrich
Daemmrich brings experience from the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard Business School to ASU
Daemmrich will lead the intellectual network in fostering new policies, advancing the consortium’s work in participatory technology assessment and engaging in important discussions about emerging science and technology.
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A Prehistory of Social Media
The grassroots origins of the social internet
Kevin Driscoll’s essay in Issues in Science & Technology tells the story of early online communities and reveals the social and technical origins of today’s social media. The history offers insights on how we might build healthier online communities that are more just, equitable, and inclusive.
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Science, Values, and Democracy
Announcing the newest title in the Rightful Place of Science book series.
In an urgent new book, philosopher of science Heather Douglas argues that science requires social and ethical values for both the direction of research and for sound scientific inference.
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Reinvigorating the Scientific Enterprise
Envisioning the Next 75 Years of Science Policy
How can we structure science policy and scientific research to meet human needs in a world of accelerating changes? Global leaders, early career researchers, policymakers, businesspeople and more consider the future of the scientific enterprise and how it could be changed to create a healthier, more equitable, and secure society in an essay collection in Issues in Science & Technology.
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He Told Us There’d Be Days Like These
Dan Sarewitz Retires
In 1999, Dan Sarewitz helped found the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO). Over the past two decades, Dan and CSPO have worked to improve the interactions of science, technology, and society, advocating for science and science policy that is created by and benefits everyone. Dan’s leadership as co-director of CSPO and editor of Issues in Science and Technology will be missed.
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Who should have a say on editing DNA?
ASU Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes joins global efforts to bring public values for anticipatory governance of gene editing technologies
CSPO is working on a series of three closely connected projects to assist with global citizen deliberations on gene editing. These efforts reinforce a call from 25 leading researchers from around the world for the creation of national and global “citizens’ assemblies,” made up of lay-people, tasked with considering the societal implications of this emerging science.