| Rosalyn W. Berne | | Associate Professor, Science Technology�and Society | | Ph.D., University of Virginia | | | | Dr. Berne received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Rhetoric and Communication Studies, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies/Bio-Ethics from the University of Virginia. Currently appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, she previously served as Head of School for Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, Virginia; Executive Director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School of Graduate Business; Assistant Vice President for Administration of the University of Virginia; and Director of Admissions at Darden. | | | | Research Interests | | Rosalyn Berne’s research focuses on the ethical, cultural, and societal implications of the emergence and convergence of nanotechnology, bio-technology, information technology and cognitive sciences. She is particularly interested in the role and function of moral imagination, mythology and religious belief in conceptualizations pertaining to ethics in technological development. These she has explored and discussed in her book Nanotalk: Conversations with Scientists and Engineers about Ethics, Meaning and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology (Erlbaum, 2005). The exploration continues in her next book on the subject, Nanotechnology and the Moral Imagination (in progress). She uses science fiction writing as both a source of deliberation about the future of radical, socio-technical change. She has also written Waiting in the Silence, a speculative fiction novel which explores Berne's long-standing interest in the ethics of procreation. | | |
Sponsored Research
CAREER: Ethics and Belief Inside the Development of Nanotechnology (funded by: National Science Foundation)
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