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The Humphrey School of Public Affairs is the University of Minnesota's school of policy and planning.


Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy

STEP FAR (Science Technology and Environmental Policy Feedback and Research) is designed for students, staff, faculty, and fellows to get together in an informal setting to discuss their projects, research-in-progress, opportunities, and a variety of other issues related to science, technology, environment, energy, and policy. It is a bi-weekly seminar taking place throughout the academic year. No registration is necessary. Each event is held in Room 170 at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs from 1:30-2:30 pm

Nexted Up:

October 2: Humphrey STEP (Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy) Faculty and Fellows Discussion
STEP faculty and fellows will discuss their projects and research and how students and others may get involved (and perhaps get thesis ideas from that involvement)

October 16: Spatial Toxicological Risk Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing
Ashley Suchomel (Public Health) will present on the Spatial Toxicological Risk Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing work she is doing with Jeff Bielicki (Humphrey) and Elizabeth Wattenberg (Division of Environmental Health Sciences) for a portion of a MN Futures grant they received with PI Larry Wackett (Biotechnology Institute).

October 30: Collaborative Research: Smart Grid: Socio-Political Context for Energy Technology Transitions
Clark Koenig and Mudita Suri: Clark (MPP STEP) and Mudita (MS Electrical Engineering) are research assistants with Elizabeth Wilson. They will present their work on her NSF-funded Smart Grid project.


Past STEP-FARS

  • Stop Treating the Subsurface like Dirt: Overview of Research into Earth Services and Risks of Emerging Subsurface Technologies
  • Collaboration and Institutional Patterns in Biotechnology Risk Assessment
  • Hennepin County Water Governance Project - An Application of Design Thinking to Governance
  • Toxic Chemicals - Designing Better Management and Policy
  • Should We Regulate Convergent Technologies as Platforms?
  • Faculty and Fellows Publications and Products
  • Hungry for Information: Exploring the Public Perception of Nanotechnology in Food
  • Green Chemistry: The Future for Plastic and Manufacturing Principles
  • State Climate Action Planning
  • Contested Futures of Governance: Targeted Genetic Modification