People

Lecturer , Applied Mathematics

I received the 'Diplom' in mathematics and computer science from the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1993. My first job was as a program developer in the accounting department of a bank. In 2001 we moved to the United States and in 2005 I taught my first class at UVa, Financial Math...

Executive Lecturer

Rob is from Philadelphia but has been a part of the UVA community since 1980 where he was introduced to Charlottesville as an undergraduate track and field athlete and mechanical engineering student. Rob completed his graduate studies in 1994 at the Darden Graduate School of Business. His...

Lecturer, Applied Mathematics

Mary Beck began teaching in the Department of Applied Mathematics in 1989 and retired in 2014. During her time in the School of Engineering and Applied Science she served as the Director of Applied Mathematics, the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, and the faculty advisor for the National...

Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, Department Chair

Rosalyn W. Berne, PhD is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Director of the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (OEC) in the Department of Engineering and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she has been a faculty member since 1999...

Professor Emeritus

John K. (Jack) Brown taught history, applied ethics, writing, and public speaking in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society from 1992 to 2015. His research centers on American technological and business history.

His history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works was published in...

Associate Professor

Dr. Coleen Carrigan is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on broadening participation, combating inequities, and enhancing public engagement in science, technology,...

Executive Lecturer

Jim Cheng has over 25 years experience as a technology entrepreneur, angel/private capital investor, business leader and a senior state government executive. His primary interests are in the support and development of technology entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the University...

Assistant Professor

My work has a normative (as opposed to descriptive) focus: how should we engage with technologies, other creatures, and our environments? Over the past two decades, my academic training and teaching has provided me the chance to discuss these topics with undergraduate and graduate...

Assistant Professor

Joshua Earle is a PhD in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from Virginia Tech. His work focuses on the history of eugenics, and its connection to modern genetic medicine and to future imaginaries of human and more-than-human worlds. His work is situated in Feminist Philosophy of Technology...