CSPO News In the Press
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⛄ CSPO Winter 2026 Newsletter ⛄
Not quite buried under DC’s “snowcrete,” the CSPO team is charging ahead—organizing new policy-relevant programs, driving positive change, and advancing use-based, community-oriented policy work. Read on for events to attend, ideas to wrestle with, and insights you can put to work.
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Spring 2026 Program Series
CSPO’s Spring 2026 series focuses on biotechnology and the emerging life sciences
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ASU center committed to advancing New American University’s model for science funding in US
The Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes launches a new series of collaborative dialogues to help shape science policy
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CSPO Fall 2025 Newsletter
The CSPO Team is heading into a vibrant fall season with inspiring talks, interactive workshops, and exciting research in progress. We can’t wait to share it with you. Stay tuned!
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CSPO Summer 2025 Newsletter
As summer shines, we invite you to discover the latest from CSPO!
Explore our most recent milestones and initiatives, and stay informed about our evolving research, dynamic programs, and exciting collaborations. With new opportunities on the horizon, we’re eager to connect with you this season and welcome your involvement in our thriving community! -
Science for the Messy and the Mysterious
Bringing Social Science to Bear on the Pandemic
By uncovering the uniquely human factors that affect responses to catastrophes, the social sciences can inform more nuanced and effective policy, now and in the future.
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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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Infrastructure in the Anthropocene
Humans are rapidly approaching a period of destabilization that requires new thinking and competencies for how we approach infrastructure into the future.
It’s time to rethink the relationship with the core systems that serve as the backbone for virtually every activity and service that society demands. New accelerating and interactive forces are redefining what infrastructure can and should do, and how it should function on a planet dominated by human systems. Read the first chapter of Mikhail Chester and Braden Allenby’s indispensable new book, The Rightful Place of Science: Infrastructure in the Anthropocene.
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Science policy: For the public, by the public
An ASU team led by CSPO Associate Director Mahmud Farooque calls on the Biden administration to create a special Participatory Technology Assessment unit to support policy decisionmaking.
The team, in collaboration with the Day One Project, suggests that the outcomes of science and technology decisionmaking will improve through dialogue with informed, nonexpert citizens who are generally underrepresented in science and technology policymaking.