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A group of students and professors from the 2017 Energy Efficiency research team

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STS students and designers of the Fall 2016 seminar series: STEM, Society, and Justice

Student and faculty team that developed the winning research proposal for a 2017 Puget Sound Energy and Independent Colleges of Washington grant

Spark of Discovery

As an assistant professor in the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program at Puget Sound, Amy teaches interdisciplinary courses that examine the social, political, and cultural contexts around research experiments…

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Staying Out of Hot Water

Student researchers Shelby Kantner ’18 and Matthew Gulick ’18 want you to know that for each gallon of hot water in those millions of daily showers, the heating fuel used sends 1.92 pounds of carbon dioxide into our…

The Beta Coders

The central dilemmas of a generation might be understood by the assignments a good teacher gives her students. How can we tell if a website is reliable? is the topic in Heavenly Cole’s computer science classroom …