TY - JOUR
T1 - Interdisciplinary studies in science, technology, and society
T2 - "New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy"
AU - Frodeman, Robert
AU - Klein, Julie Thompson
AU - Mitcham, Carl
AU - Tuana, Nancy
N1 - Funding Information:
Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities at Wayne State University. She is the author of Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (1990) and, most recently, Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy (2005). She also does extensive consulting on interdisciplinary skill and knowledge development both in the United States and abroad. Klein is a frequent consultant on interdisciplinarity for the US National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Funding Information:
Many sponsors deserve acknowledgment for their multiple contributions to the New Directions project from which this collection of papers has flowed. What follows is only a partial listing reflecting primarily monetary grants. Initial seed money came from the Hennebach Visiting Professorship in the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines; further extensive funding has been provided by the US National Science Foundation with additional support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the US Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Center of Atmospheric Research, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Penn State Rock Ethics Institute and the University of North Texas Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies are founding institutions of New Directions and have contributed generously to this initiative. The Katrina workshop and production of this selected proceedings was funded by National Science Foundation grant no. EAR-055035.
Funding Information:
Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, where he also directs the Hennebach Program in the Humanities and coordinates a graduate-level Individualized Interdisciplinary Program. A recent publication project was to serve as the editor-in-chief of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (2005). (His contribution here includes support from NSF grant no. SES-0620175.)
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - This introductory paper reviews the origin and context of the articles assembled in the following special issue of Technology in Society. In March 2006 a workshop on the Hurricane Katrina disaster of August 2005 in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast attempted to promote interdisciplinary deliberations that would identify contributions that the humanities might make to an understanding of the many interactions between technology and society-interactions that were at the heart of this catastrophe and thus critical to an effective, long-term response. The workshop was itself another activity in an ongoing interdisciplinary effort known as "New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy." This paper thus summarizes previous workshops in this project before briefly commenting on the twelve papers and their themes.
AB - This introductory paper reviews the origin and context of the articles assembled in the following special issue of Technology in Society. In March 2006 a workshop on the Hurricane Katrina disaster of August 2005 in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast attempted to promote interdisciplinary deliberations that would identify contributions that the humanities might make to an understanding of the many interactions between technology and society-interactions that were at the heart of this catastrophe and thus critical to an effective, long-term response. The workshop was itself another activity in an ongoing interdisciplinary effort known as "New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy." This paper thus summarizes previous workshops in this project before briefly commenting on the twelve papers and their themes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2007.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2007.01.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847666505
SN - 0160-791X
VL - 29
SP - 145
EP - 152
JO - Technology in Society
JF - Technology in Society
IS - 2
ER -