Mike Shriberg is a Professor of Practice & Engagement in the School for Environment & Sustainability (SEAS) with concurrent appointments with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and Michigan Sea Grant. Dr. Shriberg’s work focuses on…
A reporter from the NPR station in Austin, Texas, reached out to author Trevor Odelberg (PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering '24) after seeing STPP and the Michigan Municipal League's Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Local Government...
By Ember McCoy, PhD Candidate, Environmental Policy & JusticeIn July, I attended the joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Amsterdam, thanks in...
By Margarita Maria Rodriguez Morales, PhD student in Public Policy and SociologyThanks to the support of the STPP student development grant, I could attend the 2024 4S/EASST meeting, that is the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association...
By Emily Costa, PhD Candidate, Pratt Research Group, Department of ChemistryThis past June, I was selected to attend the American Meteorological Society’s Summer Policy Colloquium. This annual event brings together graduate students and...
By Olivia David, PhD Candidate at SEASIn July, I attended the joint conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science (EASST-4S) in Amsterdam, with support from STPP’s...
As artificial intelligence technologies proliferate in industries across the globe, governments around the world are working to regulate how and when these technologies are used.In October 2023, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Safe...
Alexa White, an STPP Certificate and Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology, was given the inaugural FAS Policy Entrepreneur Award by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) at a ceremony in Washington, DC on November 16, 2023....
By Allison Cale, PhD Candidate in Genetics and Genomics
As someone who is interested in a career focused on the ethical, social, and legal implications (ELSI) of advancements in genetics and genomics, I enjoyed the immense privilege of attending...
By Christina Del Greco, PhD Student in Genetics and Genomics
The American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT)’s annual Policy Summit is a two-day event in Washington, D.C. (September 18-19, 2023) that brings together academic, government,...
Thanks to the STPP career development grant, I was able to attend the 2023 ASU Winter School, hosted by School for the Future of Innovation in Society in Mesa, Arizona. The event spanned one week and was held at the beautiful Saguaro Lake Ranch set...
By Margarita Maria Rodriguez Morales, Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy & Sociology and STPP certificate student
The Summer School was jointly hosted with the Institute for Global Law and Policy of the Harvard Law School.
Last summer, I had the...
Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG) founder Max Bronstein (MPP/STPP ’10) celebrates 10 years of JSPG! In a podcast, Bronstein talks about his initial vision for the journal, how JSPG has impacted the science policy landscape, and how JSPG...
STPP students Natasha Dacic, Christina Del Greco, Natalia Harris, Kelsey Kochan, and Elena Levi-D’Ancona recently penned a policy brief about abortion rights in the United States for the National Science Policy Network's 2022 policy writing...
Carmen Altes, MPP and STPP student, did a summer internship with the U.S. Government Accountability Office's Science and Technology Assessment and Analytics team. Carmen received course credit towards the STPP certificate for this internship, and...
STPP student Zach Quirk was recently appointed as a new Associate Editor of the Journal of Science Policy and Governance. He joins recent STPP graduate Jason Albert. Quirk is a National Science Foundation Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department...
By Zack Sluzala, Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate & STPP certificate student
Last semester I took a leave of absence from my Neuroscience Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan to complete a health policy fellowship with the Heritage Foundation,...
In October 2021, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) put out a request for public comment on the use and regulation of AI-enabled biometric technologies, including facial recognition. OSTP invited comment on a wide range...
Natasha's trip to COP26 was funded with an STPP Career Development Grant. Learn more about the grant here.
By Natasha Dacic
I recently had the opportunity to travel to COP26 as a member of the University of Michigan’s Delegation. What an...
By Elana Goldenkoff
I had assumed there was a technical solution to gerrymandering. I figured there surely existed an algorithm or statistical method for drawing equally populated districts that were fair and non-partisan. I thought the process...
Cesar Barraza Botet, Mechanical Engineering PhD & STPP Certificate, '18, currently serves as Associate Professor of Engineering & Energy Policy Analyst at the Universidad de la Sabana.
Last January, I was fortunate to start my Christine Mirzayan...
By Laura Grier, MS in Environmental Justice and Policy and STPP Graduate Certificate alum
On any given day of the past winter semester, I got to work as a policy researcher, data tracker, event planner, team builder, and climate advocate. It is...
By Stephanie Sandoval-Pistorius, M.S., Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate and STPP certificate student
This year, I took the Politics of Public Policy and Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis by Shobita Parthasarathy and Joy Rhode,...
by Lucca Henrion, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate and STPP Certificate Student
On May 8th, a coalition of 20 University of Michigan graduate students from Rackham Student Government, Graduate Rackham International, and Engaging Scientists...
by Nocona Sanders, Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D. Candidate and STPP Certificate Student
Across Michigan and throughout Washtenaw County, issues related to water safety, access, and usage have become prominent topics of public discussion....
by Selene Ceja, MPP and STPP certificate student
I am not a scientist. I am a first-generation, low-income Latina from South Central Los Angeles, and a policymaker-in-training, who seeks to understand how the ever-accelerating changes in science...
by Elizabeth A. Ronan, Molecular and Integrative Physiology Ph.D. Candidate and STPP certificate student
Political lobbying is not an activity I would have initially thought to associate with a STEM career. Yet this past October I found myself, a...
by Akin Olumoroti, MPP and STPP certificate student
Thanks to the STPP career development grant, I was able to attend the student-led MIT Energy Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Attending the conference was a very useful experience, since the...
Please join us for an engaging conversation with New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill and Shobita Parthasarathy, Faculty Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program. Our speakers will explore the intersection of technology and privacy, addressing some of today's most salient issues.Following the talk, Kashmir Hill will be available for a book signing of "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It".
Attorney Vineet Shahani, General Counsel and policy and corporate development lead for Mill, will engage with current STPP students in an informal conversation about his background in technology policy and climate work. Mr. Shahani will provide valuable insight into the daily operations of policy work in a tech company, as well as the pragmatic aspects of seeking policy jobs in Silicon Valley.
