Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University

04/21/2022

Join us tomorrow! How can we increase access to formal and informal STEM education and opportunities in rural communities?

Rural Activation and Innovation Network (RAIN) project director Kalman Mannis will talk about cultivating regional STEM hubs and scaling these strategies to other communities.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadening-stem-participation-in-rural-and-remote-communities-tickets-317742976797

04/05/2021

The latest book in the Rightful Place of Science is out now! INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE by Mikhail Chester and Braden Allenby provides insight into what modern infrastructure can and should do, and how it should function on a planet now dominated by humans. Read the first chapter below!

Infrastructure appears to be caught between the past and the future, and when it comes to these obdurate systems, the present is not a good place to be. Technological evolution is accelerating, politics and society are fragmenting, climate and the natural world are changing, and infrastructure (at l...

02/12/2021

From protecting Earth from asteroids to handling nuclear waste, science and technology issues affect all of us. ASU researchers are asking the Biden administration to support public engagement to include diverse viewpoints in science policy.

09/22/2020

CSPO Associate Director Mahmud Farooque is part of a global call in Science Magazine for global citizen assemblies on genome editing.

Dr. Farooque: “These forums will provide a rather unique opportunity for us to build an anticipatory and participatory multi-layered governance framework for gene editing in particular and other socially disruptive innovations in general, early in the process when the ‘should we’ and ‘we should not’ options are still on the table."

ASU Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes joins global efforts to bring public values for anticipatory governance of gene editing technologies.

05/26/2020

Wednesday, May 27, 4 p.m. EDT: Are Bats Really to Blame for the COVID-19 Pandemic? https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/4615886028848/WN_NX8p1r8gQtegP532eOyYIg

Featuring: Merlin Tuttle (Founder and Executive Director, Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation); Dan Sarewitz (Professor of Science and Society and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University)

Co-Hosted by our friends at Issues in Science and Technology along with Future Tense and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University.

04/30/2020

Richard Scarry's beloved children's books can help us understand how COVID-19 is transforming our world.

04/27/2020

The United States has the world’s highest rating on the Global Health Security Index. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may well have the planet’s…

04/14/2020

America’s future depends on embracing the idea that excellence and access in higher education are not incompatible, but synergistic. Arizona State University has been leading the way in transforming the American university. Read an excerpt from Michael Crow and William Dabar's new essay in Issues in Science and Technology here:

The Fifth Wave in American higher education insists that broad accessibility and academic excellence are complementary and synergistic.

03/25/2020

The novel coronavirus offers a powerful and extremely clear lesson about the appropriate role of science in helping to guide us toward a better future. Dan Sarewitz explains:

The novel coronavirus offers up a powerful and extremely clear lesson about the appropriate role of science in helping to guide us toward a better future.

03/12/2020

On Feb. 26, ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes co-sponsored an event with the Association of Science and Technology Centers at ASU’s Barbara Barrett and Sandra Day O’Connor Washington Center to talk about the opportunities for informal STEM learning outside of a traditional cla...