ScholarshipThe Center for Science, Technology, and Society brings together faculty scholars from a variety of disciplines, schools, and departments to collaborate and engage in research. Through high-quality academic research and innovative action research projects, the Center seeks to generate knowledge and promote better understanding of how science and technology can be used to improve the human condition around the world. To address complex, multi-faceted socio-technical systems, the Center's activity areas (Social Entrepreneurship, Public Engagement, and Education) focus the research to be conducted in ways that maximize the expertise and interests of the faculty at Santa Clara University. In each of these areas, a cadre of faculty colleagues is engaged in rigorous and groundbreaking inquiry that extends beyond the constraints of the traditional organization of knowledge limited by strict disciplinary boundaries. The Center is also host to world-renowned faculty from other institutions who come to spend part of the academic year working with us. Presently the Center is pleased to host: • Distiniguished Visiting Professor Manuel Castells, University Professor, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology & Society at the University of Southern California, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Spain. Professor Castells will do us the honor of inaugurating the Steve Cisler Memorial Lecture Series on May 7th, 2009, with a talk titled "Technology in the interest of society: a global perspective." • Senior Research Fellow Allen Hammond, Senior Entrepreneur at Ashoka and former Vice President of the World Resources Institute, is collaborating in the Global Social Benefit Incubator's "sector strategy" working on the issue of community-based access to clean water. Dr. Hammond will participate in the residential program of the GSBI in summer 2009 (August 16-28, 2009). Periodically, the Center also hosts post-doctoral students collaborating with Center faculty and staff on ongoing research projects. |
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