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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 MoreProfessor, Science, Technology, and Society, Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, Director & Principal Investigator, Online Ethics Center (OEC)
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Bezzo, Nicola
Read MoreAssistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Environment, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 MoreProfessor, Science, Technology, and Society, Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities, 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, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, 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, 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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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...
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Klotz, Leidy
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Leidy Klotz is filling in underexplored overlaps between engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable systems. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in venues that include top academic journals in built environment engineering, engineering education, and design,...