Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) as one of 100 new members for 2020.

The selection committee cites Nelson “for making pioneering contributions to...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the 2020 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society.

Conferred by MIT, the award recognizes outstanding individuals who combine humanistic values with...

In a paper recently published by Science, Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson and her co-authors address ethical concerns related to the methods of computational social science (CSS) and the optimal conditions for the utilization of data-based...

Six IAS scholars have been announced as newly appointed members of American Philosophical Society: Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Chair of the School of Social Science; Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck, IAS Trustee and Visitor; and former IAS scholars Angela N. H. Creager, Maribel Fierro, M. Catherine Gallagher, and James Campbell Scott.

"I think that if we want to understand anything about science and technology, we need to begin with the people who have been the most damaged, the most subjugated by it, but who also, out of that history, are often able to be early adopters and...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, will give a plenary lecture during the 2020 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been selected to serve on the National Academy of Medicine’s newly established Committee on Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation in health and medicine.

The...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“It is a deep honor to join the Mellon Board of Trustees,” Nelson said of the appointment. “For...

Nature has asked seven leading thinkers, including Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, and Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, to select one book from history that speaks to...