Graduate STS courses supply methods of integrating knowledge in areas which may be inconceivable to grasp via any single self-discipline; examples embrace security research, environmental studies, globalization, the human sciences, and biology and society. STS programs in these areas enable students to type extra sturdy understandings of the character of controversy, the causes of scientific and technological change, the relationship of tradition and reason, and the limits of rational analytic methods in characterizing advanced issues...

This study leverages a high dimensional manifold studying design to explore the latent structure of the pandemic policymaking space solely based on bill-level characteristics of pandemic-focused bills from 1973 to 2020. Results point out the COVID-19 period of policymaking maps extraordinarily intently onto prior durations of related policymaking. This suggests that there is hanging uniformity in Congressional policymaking related to most of these large-scale crises over time, despite at present operating in a singular era of hyperpolarization, division, and ineffective governance. ADELPHI, Md. (Dec. 17, 2018) — This 12 months has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers...