Welcome to the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life. STPL serves as a platform for collaborative analysis, graduate coaching, and public engagement on issues on the intersection of science, know-how, setting, and society.
STPL’s collaborative analysis initiatives carry collectively USC school, graduate college students, and postdoctoral fellows to research how licensed information is produced in contested settings. Its current undertaking, “Precarious Ecologies,” funded by the Mellon Foundation, centered on how activists and scientists collaborate to generate information about environmental hazards. STPL’s present undertaking, “The City on Life Support,” considers Los Angeles as a laboratory for the manufacturing of information about planetary well being.
The Center additionally takes an lively position in coaching graduate college students throughout USC’s faculties. Its Graduate Certificate Program in Science and Technology Studies allows Ph.D. college students to forge connections between their residence departments and the interdisciplinary discipline of STS. Through summer season analysis stipends and an annual graduate-student symposium, the Center offers college students with a venue for conducting and sharing authentic analysis.
Finally, by its public-engagement activities, STPL seeks to foster mental change each inside and past USC. The Center hosts public lectures, small seminars, workshops, and thematic working teams with the purpose of producing perception into historic and up to date formations of professional information.
We welcome inquiries from college students and potential collaborators.