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ABSTRACT: This
talk will describe the intellectual agenda of the graduate program (MS
and PhD) in the School of HTS in the Ivan Allen College. After
describing the strengths of the faculty it will briefly introduce the
perception of the relations between science, technlogy and society that
drives the program. The backgrounds and skills of the students who are
enrolled in the program, the opportunities we provide for them, and the
career paths that they have followed on completing their degrees will
be summarized. Throughout the stress will be on interdisciplinarity,
technology-in-practice and intellectual rigor that together have led
our students into careers that exploit the skills they have acquired in
the program.
BIO: John
Krige is the Kranzberg Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies
in the School of HTS in the Ivan Allen College. He is the author,
co-author or co-editor of 14 books, and has published over 60
articles. His current research focuses on the use of science and
technology as instruments of US Foreign Policy, with particular
emphasis on strategies to curb the proliferation of nuclear and missile
technology in postwar Europe.
