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...Forum was organized as part of the 2003 Northeast Regional Student Pugwash Conference on the topic of “Science and Conflict...
...personally see a dangerous gap between science and the social sciences,” said Winn Wasson ’05, a social studies concentrator planning to participate in the Student Pugwash chapter. “You have the politicians who may not know the scientific implications of their actions, and you have the scientists who don’t know the social implications of their research. We hope to help bridge that...
SPUSA is a campus offshoot of a national organization that holds conferences promoting dialogue between professional scientists and politicians. The group takes its name from the location of its first conference, held in 1957 in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, at which 22 eminent scientists gathered to discuss the threat posed by the advent of thermonuclear weapons. The conference in 1995 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
...groups. The big news of the night was when the meeting’s chair Aaron Y. Huang ’04, who is a member of the IOP’s Science and Technology Policy Group, announced that he is planning to launch a Harvard chapter of Student Pugwash USA, a national student group that discusses ethical issues stemming from scientific advances. (It is modeled on The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.) Huang encouraged those present to get involved...
Scientists, who are often wary of dirtying their hands in political mud fights, must face up to the threat academics like Fukuyama pose to free inquiry and medical advances. And that’s where Student Pugwash comes in. The annual national Student Pugwash USA conference begins today in Washington and one of the topics on the agenda is scientific research and national security. It should be an eye-opening experience. According to Huang, two participants from Harvard are going to the conference. Next year, I hope more students—and more science concentrators—can go. Because...