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Yahoo! News Search Results for Science, Technology, and Society Studies Benson elected fellow for science, technology studies related to law An area district judge is one of three in Minnesota recently elected fellows in the national Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center, or ASTAR. Desperately seeking math and science majors Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260 high-tech jobs. It got 26,000 resumes. A fraction of those applicants were invited to interview. The final selectees, board member Andy Karsner tells me, "were top-of-their-class, English-speaking engineers. They're ... Making 'BioArt' a cultural practice At this year's Society for Social Studies Conference at the University of Tokyo, Aug. 25-29, there will be a session on "BioArt," which begs the question: What would that be? BioArt describes the variety of art forms emerging in the last two decades that use biotechnology or genetics to manipulate living things, altering food, plants, even livestock. In best do-it- yourself tradition, artists ...