Paving a pathway of opportunity through socially—directed science and technology
Paving a pathway of opportunity through frontier research and learning at the intersection of science, technology, and humanity.
Station 1 Laboratory Inc. is a new nonprofit higher education institution, founded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, that is paving a pathway of opportunity through a new model of research and learning - socially-directed science and technology. This model integrates science and technology with humanistic fields and the social sciences in order to interrogate, understand, and shape technologically-driven societal impact towards more sustainable and equitable outcomes. To advance this mission, Station1 designs and delivers transformative research, education, innovation, and collective impact programs. Station1 collaborates with partners world-wide, including socially-minded startup companies, established industry, the social and public sectors, and academia. Current areas of focus include regrettable replacements and sustainable material futures, environmental and social impacts of emerging computing technologies such as quantum topological materials, sociotechnical solutions for climate resilience, and socioresilient approaches to sustainability metrics, data, and optimization, and technological landscapes, infrastructures, industries, and socioeconomic impacts.
The Station1 Model
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The Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF)
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“The world is changing – education must also change. Societies everywhere are undergoing deep transformation, and this calls for new forms of education to foster the competencies that societies and economies need, today and tomorrow.”
Non-discrimination Statement
Station 1 Laboratory Inc. admits students of any race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identification or veteran or disability status to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It doesn't discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identification or veteran or disability status in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.