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Our faculty are not content to trod well-worn engineering paths. Instead, they are driven to pursue innovations in teaching, research that address truly complex challenges, and to pursue worldwide leadership roles in their fields.
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Berne, Rosalyn W.
Read MoreAssociate Professor in Science, Technology, and Society, Director & Principle Investigator, Online Ethics Center (OEC)
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Bezzo, Nicola
Read MoreAssistant Professor
Nicola Bezzo is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA in January 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PRECISE Center, in the...
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Carlson, W. Bernard
Read MoreJoseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities, Chair, Engineering and Society Department, Professor of History, Director, Engineering Business Programs
Bernie Carlson is a historian of technology who studies the careers of inventors and entrepreneurs in order to educate future engineering leaders. He grew up in New Jersey, studied history and physics as an undergraduate, earned a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science, and pursued a...
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Deppmann, Christopher
Read MoreAssociate Professor of Biology, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
I have been interested in the mechanisms underlying long-distance signaling in the context of nervous system development since I was a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the laboratory of David Ginty (now at Harvard). This experience taught me to integrate my...
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Ferguson, Sean
Read MoreAssistant Professor in Science, Technology, and Society
Sean Ferguson has been teaching within the STS curriculum since 2014 and has partnered with Assistant Professor Rider Foley to explore Engineering Education Assessment Innovations in this capacity. His research includes work on digital citizenship, ethics, and the open data movement with...
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Foley, Rider W.
Read MoreAssociate Professor in Science, Technology, and Society
Dr. Rider W. Foley is an associate professor in the science, technology & society program in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ‘4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM...
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Gomez III, Jose Pantaleon
Read MoreLecturer
I was most recently the Director of Research for the Virginia Transportation Research Council, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s research division. I first joined the Research Council in June of 1992 as a Research Scientist and spent 9 years conducting applied research and technical...
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Gorman, Michael E.
Read MoreProfessor of Engineering & Society, Director, Science, Technology and Society Program, Director, Policy Internship Program, Member, Link Lab
Michael E. Gorman earned a Ph.D. (1981) in Social Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. He served as an STS Program Director at NSF for two years. His research interests include social psychology of science, ( Simulating Science, Indiana University Press...
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Kester, Mark
Read MoreDirector, nanoSTAR Institute, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology/Biophysics
Mark Kester is a Professor of Pharmacology and the Director of the NanoSTAR Institute of the University of Virginia. He was previosuly the G. Thomas Passananti Professor of Pharmacology at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and the inagural Director of the Penn State Center for NanoMedicine...