Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences has featured a story about the NSF CAREER grant associated with Tech & Dis on their website this week: Headline: NSF Award into Research into Technologies for Disability Community So happy to have this shared with the community. Over the next 5 years, I will have…

By Chris Wakeley

Work by Cara Boim

Former Tech & Disability student Tim Pote and I are interviewed as part of Rose Eveleth’s Flash Forward Podcast, this episode entitled “Enter the Exos”. Also included among interviewees are Bill Peace and Kim Sauder, two folks we read in class when we discuss exoskeletons. Link here: Flash Forward Podcast, Enter the Exos

by Maggie Rudnicki  

by Maggie Rudnicki Sex education is an incredibly important part of any child’s education and will shape their beliefs and experiences going into sexual maturity. The urge to reproduce is one of our most basic biological imperatives that goes back to Darwinian evolution – we are driven to survive and reproduce. It is, therefore, of…

by Hannah Butcher Are you really having an anxiety attack, or are you just having a bad day? It can’t be that bad.

by Cara Boim and Hannah Ridings This presentation discusses the shift in definition of autism to a biologically rooted disorder and an “epidemic” through the lens of autistic activism, hypothesizing causes for and pointing out issues inherent in this discourse.  The role of Autism Speaks in contributing to a pathologizing narrative is discussed, using the…

Three students from STS 3284: Tech & Dis presented their work at STS Undergraduate Research Day, two of whom were interviewed by VT News prior to the event, coverage here.