Science & Technology in Society: An International, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
April 5 - 6, 2008
AAAS Headquarters, 2nd Floor
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington D.C. 20005
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University
About the ST Global Consortium

The ST Global Consortium is a consortium made up of graduate students from Arizona State University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland, and Ecole des Mines de Paris who coordinate the Science & Technology in Society conference. This organization grew out of a series of annual graduate student conferences sponsored by George Mason University, George Washington University, Virginia Tech, and AAAS that began in 2001. Our aim is to attract graduate students from all over the world. Our society is organized around a deep interest not only in the impact of science, technology, and engineering on society, but also on how ethical, intellectual, cultural and social forces exercise reciprocal influences on the production of knowledge and its applications.

The main purpose of our society is to bring together graduate students from a traditionally fragmented community of scholars that study policy and social issues of S&T. Our society draws graduate students from programs as diverse as science and technology studies, public policy, science and technology policy, and engineering and public policy. By bringing these disciplines together, we hope to create mutual understanding between these fields and to make the S&T community more cohesive.

Our conference series provides graduate students with a formal but accessible venue to present their work and to develop professional skills. The conferences also afford graduate students the opportunity to build research networks and to gain feedback from peers and professionals from a diverse array of backgrounds. At the same time, our conferences provide graduate students with a forum to discuss career options with S&T policy professionals working in both academic and non-academic career tracks.
Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University
Maryland School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
The Center for International Science and Technology Policy, GWU
Science and Technology Studies Program, Virginia Tech