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Announcing ARSTM elections: send in nominations and renew your membership soon!

Hi ARSTMers! With NCA less than two months away, the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine is excited to provide some updates about membership and elections. Leadership Elections It’s time to elect new leadership! As a small organization, ARSTM relies on an active, enthusiastic, and collegial officer… Read More »Announcing ARSTM elections: send in nominations and renew your membership soon!

Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar selected for RWJ Health Policy Research Scholars Program

ARSTM member Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar was selected for the Robert Wood Johnson’s Health Policy Research Scholars program fellowship after a competitive application and interview process. The program provides training for doctoral students who want to apply their research to advance health and equity. It brings together scholars from disciplines as… Read More »Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar selected for RWJ Health Policy Research Scholars Program

Graham and Hopkins’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA precon presentation became an article!

A version of ARSTM members Scott Graham and Hannah Hopkins’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA precon presentation “AI for Social Justice: Methodological Horizons in Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine” has recently been published in Technical Communication Quarterly.  In the article, Graham and Hopkins argue that artificially intelligent machine learning systems can be used… Read More »Graham and Hopkins’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA precon presentation became an article!

Call for Preconference Program (Co-)Chair(s): ARSTM@RSA 2022

PDF: ARSTM@RSA 2022 preconference call for program chairs The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine will hold our biannual pre-conference at the 2022 Rhetoric Society of America conference. RSA will be held May 26-29, 2022, in Baltimore, MD. We need one chair OR two co-chairs to coordinate… Read More »Call for Preconference Program (Co-)Chair(s): ARSTM@RSA 2022

Accepting nominations for the Article of the Year Award

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine’s (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award recognizes the most outstanding rhetoric of science and technology-related article published the preceding calendar year. The award committee is now accepting nominations for articles published in the calendar year of 2020! Submission deadline: Sunday,… Read More »Accepting nominations for the Article of the Year Award

Accepting Nominations for the 2021 ARSTM Book Award

The award committee is now accepting nominations! View the full submission instructions and past winners. Submission timeline Send initial nomination packages electronically to Dani DeVasto, Chair of the Book Award Committee, at devastod@gvsu.edu. Nominations should be sent as a PDF email attachment and received by June 1, 2021. Initial nominations:… Read More »Accepting Nominations for the 2021 ARSTM Book Award

Past ARSTM officer Molly Kessler’s article selected for inclusion in the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021!

Dr. Kessler’s article The Ostomy Multiple: Toward a Theory of Rhetorical Enactments has been selected for the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021, which will be published  by Parlor Press in print and digital formats. The article, which was selected from dozens of nominations from journal editors… Read More »Past ARSTM officer Molly Kessler’s article selected for inclusion in the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021!

ARSTM’s commitment to supporting AAPI people and causes, and denouncing white supremacy and anti-Asian hate

Last year, the ARSTM leadership made a statement condemning anti-Black racism and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee and other victims of police and vigilante violence. In it, we wrote, “We recognize that white supremacist violence, and more specifically anti-Black violence, is historically intertwined… Read More »ARSTM’s commitment to supporting AAPI people and causes, and denouncing white supremacy and anti-Asian hate