Science, Technology and Values Faculty

STV Interests: Environmental policy & planning; Democratic decision making in science-intensive policy controversies
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Email: Robert.Beattie@umb.edu

STV Interests: literature and science, esp. literature and the history of astronomy
STV-related courses: English 334 -- Science Fiction; Honors 290 -- Imagining Mars; English 663 -- The End of the World
Office hours: by appointment, W-6-014
Email: Robert.Crossley@umb.edu

STV Interests: Medical Sociology
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Email: susan.gore@umb.edu

STV Interests: problem-based learning with biomedical cases
STV-related courses: CCT611 - Problem-based learning (Seminar in Critical Thinking
Office hours: Thurs 2-3.30
Email: nlgreenwald@Comcast.net

STV Interests: social and political determinants and consequences of information technology/communications technology
STV-related courses: Pol. Sci. 367 - Politics by Internet
Office hours: on leave '05-'07
Email: kate@china-wired.com

STV Interests: relationship betwen literacy/cognition and information/communications technology
STV-related courses: Freshman Honors Seminar on "Communications Technology: Impact on Thought and Action"
Email: cynthia.jahn@umb.edu

STV Interests: Science and Its Cultural Assumptions, with an emphasis on Economics, Statistics and Property Rights
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Office hours: W-5-013
Email: Esther.Kingston-Mann@umb.edu

STV Interests: envtl. science in social context, social and institutional aspects of innovation, particularly with regard to renewable energy
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Email: david.levy@umb.edu

STV Interests: History of Mathematics
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STV Interests: social determinants of health
STV-related courses: Econ 380, Health Economics
Office hours: 10:25am-1:25pm.
Email: Enrico.Marcelli@umb.edu

STV Interests: environmental ethics; philosophy of science
STV-related courses: Environmental Ethics (Phil 220), Philosophy of Science (Phil 346), Technology and Values (Phil 307), Topics in Philosophy of Science (Phil 481)
Office hours: Tu Th 4-5:30, or by appointment, W-5-020
Email: arthur.millman@umb.edu

STV Interests: cost-benefit analysis of environmental regulation; valuation of environmental health risks; risk communication and perception
STV-related courses: Econ 345, Natural Resource Economics and Sustainable Development; Econ 349, Economic Approaches to Environmental Problems
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Email tammy.murphy@umb.edu

STV Interests: Effects of computer technology on our lives; environmental thought; ecocriticism; teaching of reading, writing and critical thinking.
STV-related courses: Technology and the Soul (GenEd184); Eng 102 (research course on environment and writing); Place (Hons 101/102)
Office hours: Thurs. 2:30 - 4:30 and by appointment in W-6-012.
Email: dorothy.nelson@umb.edu

STV Interests: History of genetics; The nature-nurture debate; Policy issues in genetic testing
STV-related courses:PolSci 348, Science and Public Policy; PolSci 370, The Darwinian Revolution
Office hours: TBA; W-5-68
Email: diane.paul@umb.edu

STV Interests: Medicine and literature; medical humanities
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email: louise.penner@umb.edu

STV Interests: Science and magic
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Email: kenneth.rothwell@umb.edu

STV Interests: Relationships between information technology (IT) and human communication (interpersonal, small group, working groups, cultural); Social and Cultural Change related to IT
STV-related courses: ComStu 300, Information Technology and Human Communication; ComStu 250, Analyzing Media
Office hours: M 2:00-3:30; Tu 8:30-9:30; Th 2:00-3:30, or by arrangement, W-5-003
Email: mark.schlesinger@umb.edu
Website: www.commstudies.umb.edu

STV Interests: Biology, especially genetics and molecular biology, in a social context
STV-related courses: Biology of Human Disease (Biol 103), Genetics (Biol 252/254)
Office hours: TBA, W-3-007
Email: rachel.skvirsky@umb.edu

STV-related courses: CCT619 -- Biomedical ethics; Phil 309 Ethics of Property
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Email: janet.smith@umb.edu

STV Interests: early modern science; agricultural improvement and scientific or quasi-scientific observation in the 17th century; courts and science
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Office hours: on leave 05-06
Email: malcolm.smuts@umb.edu

STV Interests: Information Frameworks; The Internet; Citizen science; Relationship of new technologies to changes in values and institutions
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Office hours: 12:30-1:30 MW or by appointment
Email: robert.stevenson@umb.edu

STV Interests: history of urban planning and urban design; space, place, and the shaping of the environment
STV-related courses: Art 230 Architecture, Design and Society; Art/AmSt L436 The American Suburb
Office hours: TBA McCormack 4-454
Email: Nancy.Stieber@umb.edu

STV Interests: biology & envtl. science in social context, epidemiology & envt. in age of DNA, critical reflective practice in science
STV-related courses: CrCrTh 611--Making sense of numbers, CrCrTh640--Environment, Science & Society, CrCrTh 645--Biology in Society, Critical Thinking , PPol 749/CrCrTh 649--Science, Technology & Public Policy
Office hours: Tu, Th 5.30-6.30pm by sign up or by arrangement, W-2-143-09
Email: peter.taylor@umb.edu