The Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF) is a prestigious, fully-funded experience for undergraduate students focused on socially-directed science and technology education, research, and innovation. Socially-directed science and technology is a new model of learning and research which aims to interrogate, understand, and shape technologically-driven societal impact towards more equitable and sustainable outcomes. A unique internationally-recognized model of higher education, the SFF integrates three programmatic components:
- A research experience in emerging areas of science and technology with leading established and startup partner companies, research institutes, and nonprofit organizations. Station1 coordinates an exceptional portfolio of research projects in all science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors, including, for example, areas such as biotechnology and health technologies (e.g. tissue engineering, marine genomics, synthetic biology, diagnostics, circular biomaterials), civic technologies, socially-directed computation – artificial intelligence / machine learning, assistive technologies, water technologies, environmental and climate technologies, agricultural technologies, and sustainable materials and manufacturing.
- A cross-disciplinary shared curriculum focused on socially-directed science and technology taught by world-class scientists, engineers, and researchers is applied to the internship research projects which includes topics such as sociotechnical systems, social innovation, environmental and social in/justice and equity-based design, technological landscapes across scale, historical methods, thinking with long time and the Anthropocene, social and global challenges, sustainability, resilience, and remediation, circular economy and design, community-based participatory research in biotechnology and public health, art, artisanship, and science: representations, models, and simulations, computation in social context, complexity, networks, ecosystems, and theories of change, and technosocial possibilities: histories of the future.
- Personal and professional advancement activities including inclusive leadership and collaboration, scientific and technical communication, networking, and more.