STSC Projects

By their nature, STS projects cut across departmental and disciplinary lines. Researchers pursue questions wherever they lead: from one scientific field to another, from knowledge to practice, from site to site, from local to global. STSC seeks to stimulate collaborative scholarship on critical issues of science and technology in the modern world. It provides a home for working groups and research collaborations with a multidisciplinary base.

Stem Cell Initiative

• Lectures by scholars in the intersection of stem cells and society
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine scholars’ mandatory ethical legal and social implications of stem cell research course
• Represent the Stem Cells and Society Program at the UC Berkeley Asilomar Stem Cell Retreat
• Support for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students working in this area
•  University Stem Cell R&D Initiative
•  Stem Cell Science and Values Education Initiative
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine ELSI Fellowship
• Support for the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee (SCRO)

Alternative Global Energy
In parallel with UC Berkeley’s new Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), and supported by the Chancellor and Provost, STSC will be running a series of events giving a broad perspective on the social embedding of alternative energy research and potential.

Genomics and Society
Massively increased information capacity and recent advances in genomics have placed us on the brink of the age of “personalized” genomics. It is now possible to get detailed information about one's individual genome, and databases will soon enable comparative analyses form one individual genome to another, and well as within and between group analyses.  This initiative explores the social, legal, ethical, economic, institutional and political aspects of new developments in personalized genomics.

UC Network
Distributed across the University of California is an unmatched collection of STS resources. UC campuses are looking to join their strengths.

Working Groups