STS-Related Links: UC Berkeley

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• Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. This monthly lecture series brings together artists, scientists, scholars, curators, students, faculty, and the public to discuss contemporary issues at the intersection of digital media, emerging technologies, and aesthetic expression, and how these issues impact our culture. Berkeley's location in a center for technology and design, combined with its history of diverse views and intellectual inquiry, provides an ideal venue for this program.
  URL: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/
• Center for New Media - CNM. Berkeley's Center for New Media brings together humanists, technologists, social scientists, artists, and designers who engage in critical study of the potentials and pitfalls of New Media, informed by a broad multidisciplinary knowledge base and a deep historical and theoretical perspective.
  URL: http://cnm.berkeley.edu/
• New Media (Designated Emphasis). The Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media is an interdisciplinary doctoral program available to graduate students who are currently enrolled in departments and programs in the Arts, Humanities, Engineering, Architecture, and Social Sciences in UC Berkeley. It provides an interdisciplinary forum intended to systematize graduate education, catalyze research collaboration, and enhance the sense of intellectual community in New Media. The DE in New Media comprises a set of courses with content in the history, theory and practice of computationally-based representation and communication of information. Students enrolled in the Designated Emphasis program must complete academic work in the Designated Emphasis in addition to the full requirements of the PhD programs in which they are enrolled.
  URL: http://cnm.berkeley.edu/program/index.php

• Berkeley Stem Cell Center. The Berkeley Stem Cell Center is a multidisciplinary group of scientists, physicians, and humanities and legal scholars committed to the study of this new technology.
  URL: http://stemcellcenter.berkeley.edu/
• Regional Oral History Office - Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies. The Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies promotes research, teaching and publication in the history of the biological sciences and its contributions to biotechnology. The Program offers open access to the largest collection of oral histories in these fields for scholars, students and educators around the world.
  URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/biosci/

• Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. The UC Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship in the fields of business law, and law and economics.
  URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/bclbe/index.html
• Center for Responsible Business. The Center for Responsible Business vision is to create a more sustainable, ethical and socially responsible society by establishing the Haas School of Business as the preeminent educational institution for research, teaching, experiential learning, and community outreach in areas of corporate social responsibility.
  URL: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/
• Center for Work, Technology, and Society at IIR. WTS was founded at UC Berkeley as part of the Institute of Industrial Relations to support research and education in the areas of work, technology and society.
  URL: http://iir.berkeley.edu/worktech/
• Graduate Program in Health Management. The goal of the Graduate Program in Health Management is to build the top health management leaders in the country. The program combines rigorous academic training with practical applications in real-world settings.
  URL: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/advantage/health/
• Healthcare@Haas. Healthcare@Haas educates students on the multi-faceted nature of the healthcare industry as well as connects students with industry alumni and professionals. The club encompasses all areas of the healthcare industry - provider organizations (hospitals, clinics), technology, health plans, policy, medical products (biopharma, medical devices, diagnostics), and related services (consulting, investment banking).
  URL: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/hcc/
• Management of Technology Program. The MOT Program seeks to address a number of technology management challenges. We define Management of Technology as the set of activities associated with bringing high technology products to the marketplace.
  URL: http://mot.berkeley.edu/

• Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC). The Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) is a student-led organization whose mission is to connect and develop the UC Berkeley energy and resource community.
  URL: http://berc.berkeley.edu/
• Berkeley Institute of the Environment. The Berkeley Institute of the Environment (BIE), established in 2005, brings together and helps enhance diverse campus programs and research units in new and innovative ways. The Institute’s goals are to address complex environmental problems by: making research tools and understanding accessible across disciplinary lines; fostering collaboration and new ways of thinking about critical environmental problems across disciplines; and training a new generation of environmental researchers, citizens and professionals. Through its initiatives the BIE seeks to confirm Berkeley as the premier institution in environmental theory, understanding, actions and solutions.
  URL: http://bie.berkeley.edu/
• Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics. The workshop draws together over fifty faculty and doctoral students from San Francisco Bay Area institutions (the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Santa Cruz, and Davis, and Stanford University) who share a common concern with problems that stand at the intersection of the environmental and social sciences, the humanities and law.
  URL: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/
• California Climate Change Center. In 2003, the California Energy Commission, through its Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program, established the California Climate Change Center to undertake a broad program of scientific and economic research on climate change in California. The Center is organized as a "virtual" institution with sites at both the UC Berkeley campus and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (UC San Diego campus). The Berkeley Center, based at the Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, is focusing on economic and policy analysis, while the Scripps Center focuses on physical climate modeling.
  URL: http://calclimate.berkeley.edu/
• Climate Change Policy Seminar. Climate Change Policy Seminar Series Calendar
  URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~gnemet/CCP.html
• Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The mission of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is to bring a diverse research, teaching, and extension capacity to bear on environmental problems from local to global scales.
  URL: http://nature.berkeley.edu/espm/
• Energy and Resources Group - ERG. The Energy and Resources Group (ERG) is an interdisciplinary academic unit of the University of California at Berkeley, conducting programs of graduate teaching and research that treat issues of energy, resources, development, human and biological diversity, environmental justice, governance, global climate change and new approaches to thinking about economics and consumption. Established in 1973, ERG offers two-year MA and MS degrees in Energy and Resources, as well as a PhD.
  URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/erg/index.shtml
• Environmental Policy Center. The goal of GSPP's Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) is to help bridge the gap between environmental theory and policy implementation. In particular, CEPP activities are geared to help fill the global need for competent environmental managers who are adept at policy-making within the context of limited and varying resources.
  URL: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~gspp/programs/cepp.htm
• Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. Sponsors lectures on matters of broad public concern touching on science and environment.
  URL: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/pollan/
• Society and Environment Emphasis, ESPM. Society and Environment is one of three disciplinary emphases within ESPM for the Ph.D. Our mission is to bring social science perspectives and tools to the teaching and analysis of natural resource and environmental problems, and to develop management strategies to address these problems. The research, teaching, and extension of Society and Environment faculty and students explore how social and cultural processes and institutions influence and are influenced by natural resources and environmental phenomena.
  URL: http://espm.berkeley.edu/divisions/se.html

• Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics. The workshop draws together over fifty faculty and doctoral students from San Francisco Bay Area institutions (the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Santa Cruz, and Davis, and Stanford University) who share a common concern with problems that stand at the intersection of the environmental and social sciences, the humanities and law.
  URL: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/
• Science, Technology, and Society Center - STSC. STSC connects researchers and programs across the rich landscape of existing centers of excellence on the UC Berkeley campus. The Center will house and initiate research on topics of broad faculty interest. Working with departments and programs, it will help develop curricula. STSC will foster links, through its webpage and programming, with related programs across the country and around the world.
  URL: http://ias.berkeley.edu/stsc/

• Berkeley Stem Cell Center. The Berkeley Stem Cell Center is a multidisciplinary group of scientists, physicians, and humanities and legal scholars committed to the study of this new technology.
  URL: http://stemcellcenter.berkeley.edu/
• Center for Medicine, Humanities and Law. The Center inspires, develops and supports innovative scholarship and education through interdisciplinary collaborations among medicine, the humanities, social sciences, and law. The Center is a place where faculty, students, educators, and researchers join with the community, policymakers, and the professions to explore interdisciplinary concerns about the effects of biomedicine on individuals and society.
  URL: http://cmhl.berkeley.edu/
• Center for Weight and Health. The Center For Weight and Health facilitates interactions among researchers, policy makers and community based providers from various disciplines and institutions who are concerned about weight, health and food security, and promotes collaboration on projects between professionals and members of diverse communities.
  URL: http://cnr.berkeley.edu/cwh
• Graduate Program in Health Management. The goal of the Graduate Program in Health Management is to build the top health management leaders in the country. The program combines rigorous academic training with practical applications in real-world settings.
  URL: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/advantage/health/
• Health Policy and Management. Health Policy & Management (HPM) trains graduates for positions of senior-level leadership in health services policy and management and to conduct research and diseminate knowledge that will advance the organization, financing, and delivery of health and medical services.
  URL: http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/degrees/areas/hpm.htm
• Healthcare@Haas. Healthcare@Haas educates students on the multi-faceted nature of the healthcare industry as well as connects students with industry alumni and professionals. The club encompasses all areas of the healthcare industry - provider organizations (hospitals, clinics), technology, health plans, policy, medical products (biopharma, medical devices, diagnostics), and related services (consulting, investment banking).
  URL: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/hcc/
• History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body. HSSMB, aka Med Heads, discusses a pre-circulated work in progress by a member of the group once a month over a potluck dinner, allowing an interdisciplinary group of participating graduate students, faculty and independent scholars to get feedback on their work and exchange ideas.
  URL: http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/wg_medicine.shtml

• Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. HSPS is published biannually and explores a vast number of scientific fields, social histories, and their relevant institutions, including physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, geology, biophysics, radiation biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics.
  URL: http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/hsps
• History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body. HSSMB, aka Med Heads, discusses a pre-circulated work in progress by a member of the group once a month over a potluck dinner, allowing an interdisciplinary group of participating graduate students, faculty and independent scholars to get feedback on their work and exchange ideas.
  URL: http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/wg_medicine.shtml
• History of Science and Technology Program in The Bancroft Library. The History of Science and Technology collections cover all fields of science (including physical, mathematical, earth, life, human sciences) and engineering, including applications of science and issues of science, technology, and the public interest.
  URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/hstp.html
• Office for History of Science and Technology. OHST promotes research and discussion in the history of science and technology through international exchanges, conferences, colloquia, research facilities, and administrative assistance. Its colloquium series on the history of science, technology, and medicine is run jointly with UCSF's Program in The History of Health Sciences.
  URL: http://ohst.berkeley.edu/
• Regional Oral History Office - Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies. The Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies promotes research, teaching and publication in the history of the biological sciences and its contributions to biotechnology. The Program offers open access to the largest collection of oral histories in these fields for scholars, students and educators around the world.
  URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/biosci/

• Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - CITRIS. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society was established to sponsor collaborative information technology research that will ultimately provide solutions to grand-challenge social and commercial problems affecting the quality of life of all Californians.
  URL: http://www.citris.berkeley.edu/
• Goldman School Project on IT and Homeland Security. The Goldman School's Project on Information Technology and Homeland Security ("ITHS") uses advanced social science disciplines to analyze grand challenge problems facing information technology and homeland security.
  URL: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~gspp/iths/iths.htm
• School of Information Management and Systems - SIMS. Information is the DNA of modern economic and social life. The School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) prepares leaders to understand, organize, and manage information. Social scientists and technologists work together at SIMS to address the challenges posed for organizations and society by information ubiquity and abundance.
  URL: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/

• Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is to foster beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and technology.
  URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/
• Berkeley Technology Law Journal. The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is a student-run publication of the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
  URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/
• Boalt.org (Student Organization). A Boalt School student group working for the public interest in technology law.
  URL: http://www.boalt.org/
• Environmental Law Program. Boalt Hall offers students an unparalleled program in environmental law, one that reflects the broad interdisciplinary nature of this field. Students may choose from numerous environmental law courses and seminars. In addition regular course offerings are augmented by international and comparative environmental law courses. A certificate indicating successful completion of the program is awarded to those who fulfill the specialization requirements.
  URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/cenpro/programs/envirolaw.html
• Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall was the first clinic in the country to provide law students with the opportunity to represent the public interest in cases and matters on the cutting-edge of high technology law. Students participating in the Clinic play an integral role in defining how civil liberties and other public values will be protected in an increasingly high-tech world.The Clinic takes on projects in many fields relating to the public interest in technology.
  URL: http://www.samuelsonclinic.org
• Triple Helix Journal. The Triple Helix is the undergraduate journal of science, society, and law. Primarily through the venue of written expression, our goal is to promote the understanding of the impact of science and technology on society and their interaction with the law. Our aim is to encourage critical analysis and debate of the most legally and socially important issues in science through the free exchange of ideas within the community. Article topics focus on the intersections between science, society, and law, ranging in subjects from intellectual property law to healthcare policies to the impacts of specific scientific research and more.
  URL: http://berkeley.thetriplehelix.org

• Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. The Institute for Cognitive Studies was created in 1984 to promote research opportunities in the field of cognitive science. It was recently renamed the "Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences" (ICBS) to reflect an evolution in its program over the past ten years: namely, the marriage of the study of the mind and the brain in an interdisciplinary manner.
  URL: http://icbs.berkeley.edu/

• Berkeley Nanotechnology Club. The Berkeley Nanotechnology Club fosters and promotes information exchange and entrepreneurship opportunities for Berkeley students and alumni in the San Francisco Bay Area. The club supports the ethical invention, development and implementation of novel nanotechnologies by facilitating discussion amongst the present and future leaders of technical industries.
  URL: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~nano/
• Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - CITRIS. The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society was established to sponsor collaborative information technology research that will ultimately provide solutions to grand-challenge social and commercial problems affecting the quality of life of all Californians.
  URL: http://www.citris.berkeley.edu/

• Oceans in the Nuclear Age: A Law of the Sea Institute Project. This project seeks to draw together various official documents of international law and other materials to give its users a better understanding of how nuclear weapons, materials, and waste interact with issues surrounding the welfare, use, and future of our oceans.
  URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/ilr/ona/pages/

• California Climate Change Center. In 2003, the California Energy Commission, through its Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program, established the California Climate Change Center to undertake a broad program of scientific and economic research on climate change in California. The Center is organized as a "virtual" institution with sites at both the UC Berkeley campus and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (UC San Diego campus). The Berkeley Center, based at the Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, is focusing on economic and policy analysis, while the Scripps Center focuses on physical climate modeling.
  URL: http://calclimate.berkeley.edu/
• Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. The mission of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is to bring a diverse research, teaching, and extension capacity to bear on environmental problems from local to global scales.
  URL: http://nature.berkeley.edu/espm/
• Environmental Policy Center. The goal of GSPP's Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) is to help bridge the gap between environmental theory and policy implementation. In particular, CEPP activities are geared to help fill the global need for competent environmental managers who are adept at policy-making within the context of limited and varying resources.
  URL: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~gspp/programs/cepp.htm
• Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. Sponsors lectures on matters of broad public concern touching on science and environment.
  URL: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/pollan/
• Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall was the first clinic in the country to provide law students with the opportunity to represent the public interest in cases and matters on the cutting-edge of high technology law. Students participating in the Clinic play an integral role in defining how civil liberties and other public values will be protected in an increasingly high-tech world.The Clinic takes on projects in many fields relating to the public interest in technology.
  URL: http://www.samuelsonclinic.org

• Energy and Resources Group - ERG. The Energy and Resources Group (ERG) is an interdisciplinary academic unit of the University of California at Berkeley, conducting programs of graduate teaching and research that treat issues of energy, resources, development, human and biological diversity, environmental justice, governance, global climate change and new approaches to thinking about economics and consumption. Established in 1973, ERG offers two-year MA and MS degrees in Energy and Resources, as well as a PhD.
  URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/erg/index.shtml
• Science, Technology, and Society Center - STSC. STSC connects researchers and programs across the rich landscape of existing centers of excellence on the UC Berkeley campus. The Center will house and initiate research on topics of broad faculty interest. Working with departments and programs, it will help develop curricula. STSC will foster links, through its webpage and programming, with related programs across the country and around the world.
  URL: http://ias.berkeley.edu/stsc/
• UC Berkeley Bilateral Exchange Program. The University of California, Berkeley has over 50 bi-lateral exchange agreements with international educational institutions. While the provisions of the specific agreements vary, most provide for the exchange of faculty, researchers and graduate students for periods of up to one academic year. Berkeley sees these agreements as a means for strengthening collegial networks with our counterparts overseas. In addition, the agreements serve as a basis for internationalization of collaboration in a globalizing world and broaden our graduate student experience by bringing them into contact with young international scholars in their own field.
  URL: http://ias.berkeley.edu/general/ie/index.html