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Join STPP for a conversation with alum Dalal Najib (MPP '10, Ph.D. Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering '10) Senior Director of Science and Engineering Capacity Development at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 

Kade Crockford, the director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, will speak about technology, surveillance, and civil liberties.   

STPP hosts a conversation with Michelle Brechtelsbauer (MPP '16 and STPP '16). Michelle is Director of Stakeholder Relations at the Energy Impact Center, a DC-based think tank working to spur a nuclear energy revolution to combat climate change.  

Join STPP for a Q&A with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence and former candidate for governor. 

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program for a virtual information session to learn about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy graduate certificate.

Kelly Gates, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Jorge Nuñez, and chair Heather Thompson comprise the second panel of the Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State webinar series.

Lindsay Smith, Andrea Quinlan, Cristina Mejia Visperas, and Melissa Burch will comprise the first panel of the Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State webinar series.

Keith Breckenridge (University of Witwatersrand) will deliver the opening keynote of the Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State webinar series.

Join us for an information session to learn about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Graduate Certificate Program.

Osagie K. Obasogie is the Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health.

This webinar is an opportunity to learn more about the new report Cameras in the Classroom: Facial Recognition Technology in Schools.

Priti Krishtel is a 15-year veteran of the global access to medicines movement. In 2006, she co-founded I-MAK, a nonprofit that works to combat the rising cost of prescription drugs by re-imagining the patent system so that people can get the lifesaving medicine they need.  

Layne Scherer is a senior program officer with the Board of Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Christopher Calabrese, Vice President for Policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology will discuss the pros and cons of facial recognition technology, how it is changing many aspects of our lives, and how policymakers should address it.

Join us for an information session about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) graduate certificate!

In recent years, “period poverty” has come to be seen as an important development issue, with sanitary pads becoming the main solution. Rather than the result of systematic and unbiased evidence gathering, however, Parthasarathy argues that this problem and solution are the result of the new credibility regimes that underlie development governance today.

In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.

In this talk, Professor Warigia Bowman examines the policymaking and implementation processes for information and communication technologies (“ICT”) in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda from 1990 to 2015.

Has science and technology policymaking changed during the Trump Administration? How? What do the US politics of science and technology look like in 2018? Join us for a lively panel discussion featuring University of Michigan graduates working in science and technology policy in Washington, D.C.

Join us at the Ford School for a career panel with University of Michigan alumni working in science and technology policy in Washington, D.C.