Everyone had a fantastic time at the Launch Party for PIT-UN at S&T! We met in the Collaboratory on Friday afternoon to share information, eat cake, and brainstorm ideas for how to expand PIT at S&T.
As part of the event, we asked “What are you doing related to PIT?“:
- professional development & entrepreneurship training
- workforce development for local public agencies
- information sharing to rural MO & outreach
- student design teams
- Resilient Network of Workforce and Opioid-focused Rural Community-Organizations (R-NETWORC)
- Technology, Philosophy, & Ethical Futures undergrad certificate
- Manufacturing Academy for Pre-College
- Research on mobile radiation oncology for rural communities
- Engineers Without Borders
- Research on trust in human-AI teams
- Science, Technology & Society undergrad certificate
- Research on governance of space resource exploitation
- Discussing statistical/data science literacy in classes
- Research on misinformation and conspiracy theories
We also asked, “What should we do NEXT for PIT?“:
- Internal grant writing workshops
- Partner with local orgs related to poverty and drug addiction
- Partner with MU Journalism school for data science clinic for rural newspapers
- Data science clinic with Mastercard
- Statistical/data science consulting center
- Liasons with different public groups
- Do science communication
- Develop a doctrine of responsible free speech for digital age
- Digital humanities work
- Research on critical minerals
- Community-level dashboard on energy consumption at residence level (per household, per person) to promote lowering consumption
We can’t wait to see how PIT-related work grows at S&T!