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Award-winning historian and author Surekha Davies explores why humans make monsters and what monsters tell us about humanity.
Professor and author Beth Linker reveals the surprising origins of our concerns over poor posture.
Chemist and author Michelle Francl explores the science behind the world’s most popular beverage: tea!
From Gore-Tex to do-it-yourself kits, hear how synthetic fibers have transformed the outdoor industry.
At the T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation experts in the history of the chemical industry will convene to identify a path to netzero, biodiversity protection, and the alleviation of chemical pollution.
50 years after the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, experts gathered at the 2025 Cain Conference to reflect on the last half century of biotechnology and matters arising in the field today.
August 6, 2026
The 2026 Cain Conference will address the major issues involved in understanding how modern science has been created through a process of global cultural exchange.
Hear from Philadelphia’s leading fashion sustainability experts in this engaging panel talk on durable, reusable, and recyclable apparel.
Raechel Lutz and Conevery Bolton Valencius analyze Hollywood films that feature energy as historical objects.
Shireen Hamza examines the incorporation of elements of non-Western medicine by biomedical institutions in the United States.
Join us for an exciting lecture and soap-making demonstration by historian Julian Silverman, inspired by the historical science spectacles of Michael Faraday and the Royal Society.
The 2024 Cain Conference will explore how the stories of diverse scientists can empower young girls and people of color to see themselves as valuable contributors to the STEM fields.
Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann shares an untold story about science and immigration.
From plastics circularity in healthcare to changing modes of recycling, the 2023 T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation revealed new perspectives on plastics.
Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.
Historians and social scientists of science, technology, and medicine discuss their collaborative work to develop and deploy “embedded connections” in the humanities and STEM fields.
Join us for a Fellow in Focus lecture on the joy, challenge, and urgency of writing about our environments.
Louis Gerdelan shows how interactions among scientists, doctors, astrologers, and churchmen formed the foundations of modern disaster reporting.