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National Science Foundation Award for research on “Genetown”

Fri, 2/7/2020

Robin Wolfe Scheffler has been awarded $379,799 from the National Science Foundation’s Program in Science, Technology and Society for research on “Genetown: Tracing the History of the Biotechnology Industry in the Greater Boston Area, 1973-2000.”
Workshop at Massachusetts Historical Society

Tue, 1/28/2020

Genetown: The Urbanization of the Boston Area Biotechnology Industry Today, the Boston area hosts the densest cluster of biotechnology firms anywhere in the world. Yet in the 1980s, the rapid concentration of the industry within Boston’s urban neighborhoods was a striking contrast to the suburbanization…
Public Lecture in NYC at The Players club

Wed, 10/2/2019

The Friends of the American Philosophical Society Present -Robin Wolfe Scheffler- Associate Professor in the MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society & 2012 American Philosophical Society Research Fellow Giving A Public Lecture on His Recent Book A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for…
Genetown: Take a Walk through Kendall Square with Robin and Radio Open Source

Fri, 9/27/2019

Robin Scheffler appeared on Radio Open Source on September 26th to discuss the growth and history of the biotechnology cluster in Kendall Square. Episode is now online!
“A Contagious Cause” on New Books Network

Wed, 7/10/2019
Podcast with CMAJ on the transition from polio to cancer vaccination

Wed, 7/3/2019
New Article in Canadian Medical Association Journal

Tue, 7/2/2019
Scheffler Featured on National Library of Medicine website

Fri, 6/21/2019
5 questions: Interview with University of Chicago Press

Mon, 5/20/2019
Scheffler on WLUW’s “Live at the Heartland” Saturday 5/18 @9am

Sat, 5/18/2019

If you missed the live broadcast, a recording is here: