Research Initiatives
Biology and Society is home to both traditional and more collaborative research projects that draw on the interdisciplinary strengths of programs in the history and philosophy of science, environmental sciences, and bioethics, policy and law.
Biology Education
Biology education research investigates the fundamental and applied aspects of teaching and learning in biology. ASU biology education researchers primarily focus on questions about how to create inclusive undergraduate biology learning environments.
The Brownell Biology Education Research Lab
The Cooper Biology Education Research Lab
RISE Center
Computational History and Philosophy of Science
We use a variety of computational tools and techniques to aid historical and philosophical study of the life sciences.
Digital Innovation Group (DigInG)
Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative
Environmental Ethics, Ecology, and Economics
Biology and Society researchers explore the historical, ethical, philosophical, ecological, and economic dimensions of human interactions with the environment.
Ecosystem Services
Environmental Ethics and History
Conservation Science
Ethics in the Life Sciences
Biology and Society researchers combine bioethics, environmental ethics, research ethics, and science studies to bring multiple critical perspectives to bear on ethical issues in the life sciences.
Deliberate Extinction
Environmental ethics
Ethics education
Ethics & governance
Indigenous Genomics and Data Ethics
Neuroscience & society
SOLS Life Science Ethics
History and Philosophy of Science
The interdisciplinary field of history and philosophy of science examines the conceptual foundations of science and the connections of science to society.
Carnap Project
Embryo Project
Embryo Tales
History of Biology Seminar at the MBL
Neuroimmunophilosophy Project
Regeneration research
Completed projects
A Wilder Kingdom Workshop
ASU International Conference on Culture and Power in China's History
Digital HPS
Finding Philosophy in Science
Fire and History, Worlds and Words
Global classrooms
HPS Repository
HPS Repository