The Science, Technology, and Environment Policy Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago offers a unique opportunity of learning and interacting among faculty, graduate students, scientists, and practitioners on public policy issues in science, technology, and environment.
Housed in the Department of Public Administration, the Research group helps support a Ph.D. program in Science and Technology through funded projects which enable the training of a new generation of multinational and multidisciplinary social scientists who recognize the growing importance of science, technology and environment policy issues in society. The ST&E Policy Lab is led by Dr. Eric Welch.
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The STE Lab has been awarded two year grant for a project to develop knowledge about the access and use of genetic materials in ways that contribute to the policy relevant understanding about competitiveness and sustainability of US food and agriculture systems domestically and in foreign markets.
One of three institutional partners, the STE Lab has been awarded $1.2 million by the National Science Foundation to study the role of social and research networks for women and minorities in science and engineering at non-research intensive universities. Other institutional research partners include the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia.
As part of UIC's recent $20 million NIH award for a new Center for Clinaical and Translational Science, the STE Lab has received five years of funding to evaluate the formal and informal networks that develop among scientists, clinicians and stakeholders.