"I enjoyed the Anthropocene Campus event very much, I try to attend the STS colloquia which have brought in excellent guest speakers, and have also been following the CCRUN seminars on climate change research in the urban northeast. I am also inspired by working with PhD students like Julia M. Hildebrand, who is studying consumer drones, and Mathilde D. Christensen, who is studying Air BnB."
"Drexel has been a wonderful place to think and work alongside a cadre of people who are adept at understanding complexities, and who don’t shy away from applying their understandings in interventions to improve the world even if that means antagonizing against asymmetries of power that create environments poisonous to life’s flourishing. We read and write and the more that we compose the harder it is to erase our marks."
"Drexel has provided crucial support for building networks and pushing new areas of inquiry forward. For example, we collaborated with the Chemical Heritage Foundation to host Conceptualizing Environmental Exposure on April 10-11, 2014. This workshop brought together different people working on how to measure and evaluate exposure to identify common ground, challenges, and new directions.
We organized the Philadelphia Energy Future Summit, November 15-16, 2016, which brought together STS scholars, city officials, nonprofit organization leadership, and local media to think about energy as a sociotechnical system, and how to impact the city’s future energy directions.
In May 2018, we are hosting a National Science Foundation workshop that will put Law and Society and STS scholars in dialogue with each other to foster more exchanges between these fields in the United States."
"I am new to Drexel. However, I can say that I am so far quite impressed with the level of engagement with the events curated by the Center for STS, including the colloquium series, the work-in-progress sessions, and the Anthropocene campus. The Center is really a hub for interdisciplinary exchange."
"I LOVED teaching the STS Lab Course, Neurodiversity and Intersectionality and am having a wonderful time introducing undergraduates to STS concepts via a course that is essentially an exploration of the opioid epidemic. The WIP series is an ongoing opportunity to create a STS community at Drexel and it’s wonderful to see how it has worked to achieve that. When I was a graduate student, membership in a network of STS graduate students at RPI, Cornell, and MIT (and attending an annual workshop with them) was crucial for developing an identity as an STS scholar."
"This is only my first year here, but I'm already thrilled to be affiliated with the Center and its events programming."
"Faculty workshops hosted by Drexel’s Center for STS and countless conversations with STS colleagues have helped me develop research projects based on Environmental Political Theory, Multispecies Ethnography, and Human-Animal Studies in ways that would have been impossible without the Center’s support."