Please join the Mines Humanitarian Engineering Department and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Faculty Fellow Dr. Jessica Smith presenting Exploring the Intersection of STEM & Society Through CSR and ESG on Tuesday, September 5, 2023 in Golden, CO.  

The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the social license to operate,ESG (Environment-Social-Governance),and Justice40 signals that debates about the public accountabilities of businesses and universities continue to be hotly contested.  In this workshop,participants will learn how STEM practice and research can contribute to a variety of desired social goals, from social acceptance to social justice.The first step is identifying the inherent social dimensions of apparently “technical” problems.The workshop will also share strategies for integrating CSR and ESG into teaching and learning.

Dr. Jessica Smith,Professor,Engineering,Design,& Society Department.   Dr.Smithisan anthropologist and Science and Technology Studies scholar whose research interests center onenergy,engineering,and public accountability. She has developed an
active, funded research agenda on engineering education.  Dr.Smith is author of Extracting Accountability:Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility (MITPress,2021). She is currently serving as a Dean’s Fellow for the Earth and Society Program at Mines.