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Graduate students are helping to infuse ethical computing content into MIT’s largest machine learning course, as part of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing initiative.

Rodrigo Ochigame, a PhD student in MIT’s Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), designs alternative search engines and seeks to disrupt cultural assumptions in their teaching and research.

Share Seven exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the ninth cohort of Fung Global Fellows. Six will engage in their fellowship virtually; one will be on campus. The Fung Global Fellows Program, administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), has, in the past, brought together international research scholars in the social sciences and humanities. For ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Caroline White-Nockleby is a PhD student in MIT’s doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), which is co-sponsored by the History and Anthropology sections, and the Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS). White-Nockleby’s research centers on the shifting supply chains of renewable energy infrastructures. In particular, she is interested in the interfaces between policymaking, social dynamics, and t...

Caption: "Renewable energy must be collected, stored, and transported, says PhD student Caroline White-Nockleby. "It requires financing, metals extraction, and the processing of decommissioned materials. ... Not everyone stands to benefit equally from renewable energys potentials, and not everyone will be equally exposed to its socio-environmental impacts.” Credits: Photo courtesy of Caroline White-Hockleby. Cap...

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