News

The Making and Knowing Project recently collaborated with the Refashioning the Renaissance Project at Aalto University to experiment with historical red dyes. Refashioning the Renaissance has just published a short video on the workshop. 

The Making and Knowing Project and their recent collaboration with the Sato Sakura Gallery were featured in a recent Columbia Magazine article. 

For the Center's our fifth anniversary, we will investigate the intersection of science and society through the theme of Knowledge and Access. Learn more about how we will explore this topic through our research clusters, supported courses, seed projects, and public events.

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Co-Leader of the Global Histories of Science Research Cluster) will serve as Interim Director of the Center for Science and Society during the 2019-2020 academic year. 

The Center for Science and Society is pleased to present our End of Year Newsletter, covering our Research Clusters, grants, and events from the past academic year and introducing our theme for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The Center for Science and Society is pleased to open its sixth application cycle of Seed Grants. Proposals are welcome from all full-time junior faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia University and Barnard College.

Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience faculty mentor Barbara Tversky has published a new book, Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought

The Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art is open through June 15. 

Pamela Smith, Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society, edited the newly published Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia, which traces the movement of knowledge across the Eurasian continent. 

The Center for Science and Society is excited to announce its second round of Public Outreach Grant awardees and fifth round of Seed Grant awardees.

Our Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program is excited to welcome its fifth cohort of Presidential Scholars this July. 

Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience Matteo Farinella was interviewed by the Association of Medical Illustrators on the power of science comics.