CSPO News In the Press

  • 🌞 CSPO Summer 2026 Newsletter 🌞

    Summer may be in full swing, but the work at CSPO isn’t taking a vacation. Our team continues to launch policy-relevant programs, drive positive change, and advance use-based, community-oriented policy work. Read on for upcoming events, thought-provoking ideas, and practical insights you can put to work.

  • ⛄ 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.

  • Spring 2026 Program Series

    CSPO’s Spring 2026 series focuses on biotechnology and the emerging life sciences

  • 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

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Mikhail Chester and Braden Allenby

    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.