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- STS class of 2010 graduates
- BSHS awards ‘special commendation’
- Summer success of 199 and rising: Science communication workshops in Croatia
- STS Seminar Series Announced
- Where did our brain's go?
- Emma Tobin: philosophy with ice cream for STS’s new lecturer
- Doctor Doctor! A new PhD in STS
- What's in YOUR placebo?
- BJPS comes to STS
- Gold Medal for STSers in Synthetic Biology at MIT Competition
- Chiara shines at Bright Club
- STS IBSc Student Wins Prestigious H.A.B Simons Prize!
- new modules for next session
- Job Opportunity: Research Assistant (0.3 FTE)
- Meet STS's New Green Champion
- Finalists Speak Up! National Student Survey
- Europe's planetary scientists meet MEPs, thanks to STS student
- Bee Fayre a Success!
- Podcast: Gillies' recollections
- Mr Nicholson is Proud to Present...
- "All art is quite useless." Or not...
- Finalists Speak Up! National Student Survey
- ESRC doctoral fellowship available
- No Ordinary Space
- Prizes 2010-11
- OneBook selected for 2011
- Chiara mentioned in Faculty dispatch
- New appointment: Lecturer
- STS launches new medical modules
- New arrival - Dr Bill MacLehose
- Departure - Dr Jeremy Howick
- Winner - Research Fellowship
- STS student wins 2011 Faculty Medal
- The Secret Life of Plants
- “Music of the Stars” podcast released
- Call for Papers: 2011 Ancient Science Conference
- New Module! Revised Catalogue!
- Cain: Bright Club interview
- New Book: Successful Science Communication
- Bright Club sparkles with STS
- STS storms Dana Centre
- PhD success: David Teira
- PhD Student Joins Astronomers
- Leverhulme Grant for Network
- Careers Advice Worth Listening To!
- Agar makes an Impact
- Finalists! Have your say.
- STS wins award for engagement
- Massimi on BBC
- Students Meet Our Alumni
- Starter for 20(12)!
- Volunteers research in the news
- We are Sociology
- New Careers Podcast
- New Podcast: Turing Talk
- Bultitude Represents EU at AAAS
- Agar on the BBC
- Science in Public: Call For Papers
- Finalists! Completed the NSS yet?
- New STS Careers Podcast!
- Steve Miller On Top of the World
- New Book! New Podcast!
- Balmer interviewed by Spanish press
- Science In Public 2012: Call For Papers
- STS Big Idea Wins UCL Big Bucks
- New Careers Podcast
- Social Media Research: next steps agreed
- PhD student transcends physics
- Award Winning Website
- New Careers Podcast
- Balmer's book now online
- New Book Chapter
- STS Research Day
- Great results for STS students
- Representation Workshop makes an impact!
- UCL Social Media Project blog launches
- HPS workshop - smashing success
- Eye, See, You
- Women in Maths History
- New STS postcards
- 2012-13 Module Catalogue
- STS promotion
- STS student makes Dean's List
- Prize-winning students
- STS success hits YouTube
- Charles Laine: tragedy
- 2012 Graduation - Congratulations
- New Podcast Series: Thinking About Science
- STS seminar: Thomas Kuhn on Ancient Science
- Engaging Teachers in Gender-Aware Practice
- New Book! Managing Privacy Through Accountability
- New Careers Podcast
- University Challenge
- On the winning team!
- Going, Going, Ghent
- Higg's Boson Podcast!
- STS Staff and Students at Landmark Conference
- Philosophy of Medicine: New Article
- STS reunion plans - announced
- Ambrosio: Art and Science mix
- video: Miller talks about Chemical Cosmos
- Thinking About Science: Episode 4
- Video: Cosy Science with Steve Miller
- Praise for STS teaching
- Thinking About Science Episode 5
- New Careers Podcast!
- MSc student 'makes' news
- History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2012-13
- STS success at iBSc fair
- STS Lecturer at The House of Lords
- Grant success: Balmer on the History of Biological Weapons
- Histories of Scientific Experience
- Another Win for STS Student!
- Will The Geek Inherit the Earth?
- OCEANIC ENTERPRISE
- The Genius of Invention
- Thinking About Science: Episode 6
- Blog Winners Announced
- Finalists! Speak Up!
- BPPA Masterclass Success!
- MAPS students praise STS teaching
- STS research fellow in MRC Suffrage Science event
- Semi Final Ahoy!
- DEUS IN MACHINA
- Responsible Innovation in Europe
- STS Students Take Action
- Semi Final Challenge
- Science and Security Grant
- The Spanish Collaboration
- MATERIAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
- STS Students on the BBC
- Mechanisms & Causality Workshop
- National praise for Agar
- Conference Success
- Grant Success & Internship Opportunity
- Sites of Chemistry
- Promotions for STS staff
- Nobel Debate in Nature
- MSc Application Deadline - 2nd August
- Book now for STS20 reunion
- Recognition for STS public engagement training
- 100 Hours
- New Blog Post
- STS Teaching Excellence Nominated for Award
- Spotlight on...ProfJoeCain
- A Science Fit for the Future?
- Steph McGovern to speak at MAPS Faculty Graduation Ceremony
- STS PhD students publish
- 100 Hours: 25 Days To Go!
- Glassy Environments
- New Careers Podcast: Louis Stupple Harris.
- "quite simply the best"
- Responsible Innovation Article
- STS Summer Internships
- STS Research behind EPSRC Statement
- New book: Presocratics and the Supernatural
- Sleepwalking in Middle Ages
- UK citizen views on carbon capture and storage: new study
- PlosOne for Stilgoe: new paper
- MSc prize winner
- STS Alumnus Publishes Policy Report
- Prize winning dissertation
- Material Histories of Chemistry
- Light and Dark
- Emotions, Transformations, Restorations
- New paper: Helmholtz Club, Neuroscience and Francis Crick
- New scholarship for PhD studies
- STS PHD students shine
- Notes for brewing genius
- STS Goes Dutch
- Vacancy: Project Co-ordinator
- New Careers Podcasts
- Why should we promote public engagement with science?
- New Paper: The Science of Destruction:
- UCL Donors help fund a forgotten treatment for TB
- PhD Studentship: Making the Oceans Visible
- STS Prof in award-winning book
- Vacancy: Lecturer in Science Communication
- STS Prof Hits 4 Million
- Vacancy: Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies
- PhD Conference Review. September - January.
- 8th London Ancient Science Conference
- STS explores science on a pagan planet
- Wonderments of the Cosmos
- STS Trip! War Rooms & Banquetting House
- Emotions, Transformations, Restorations
- New paper: Harvey, Aristotle, Astrology
- Students notice excellence
- STS Research Day 2014
- The Closed Loop
- Awe Fear and Fireworks
- Undergraduate Prizes 2014
- Two STS staff promoted
- Farewell Jo Pearson
- Prof Agar on Science and WW1
- Brian Balmer speaks at UN
- NSS2014 - STS scores 100 percent (again)
- STS takes on Latin America (part 1)
- European funding success
- Upcoming Event: Perspectives On Neglected Tropical Diseases
- STS PhD students shine in South America
- Honorary degree for STS leader
- Student Success For Grand Challenge Pitch
- First STS Haldane Lecture Announced
- STS Seminars Confirmed
- Eugenics at UCL: We inherited Galton
- A Clichéd History of Computing
- STS PhD student on the BBC Breakfast Show
- Fireworks, with Simon Werrett
- RRI in Rome
- CFP: Philosophy of Information workshop
- STS's Stilgoe speaks to Parliament
- STS research seminars Term 2 announced
- Prof Frank James elected
- Students Organise BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2015
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MATERIAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
25 April 2013
Simon Werrett spoke at UCL's new Institute of Making on Friday 19 April about "Material Histories of Science". Werrett asked what a new history of material qualities might look like, and explored the history of that essential academic material - red ink!
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