Dennis Cheek, John Templeton
Foundation
Hyung Choi, Metanexus Institute
Ronald Cole-Turner,
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Edward Devinney, Jr., Villanova
University
George F. R. Ellis, University
of Cape Town
Leigh English, Monsanto, St. Louis, MO
George Fisher, Johns Hopkins University
William Grassie, Metanexus Institute
John Haught, Georgetown University
Philip Hefner, Professor Emeritus, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
David Hufford, Penn State
University and University of Pennsylvania
Leonard M. Hummel, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Gail Ironson, University of
Miami
Antje Jackelén, Lutheran
School of Theology
Solomon Katz, University of Pennsylvania
Joan Koss-Chioino, Arizona State University
J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University
Mary Ann Meyers, John Templeton Foundation
Marc Micozzi, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Craig Miller, Jewish Community
Relations Council of New York
James Miller, AAAS
Frank Pennington, United Church of Christ, Valley Forge
Andrew Petto, National Center for Science
Education
Varadaraja V. Raman, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
Mark Richardson, General
Theological Seminary
Andrew Rick-Miller, Metanexus
Institute
T. D. Singh, Thoudam Damodara
Singh
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell
University
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Princeton Theological Seminary
Paul Wason, John Templeton Foundation
Paul Root Wolpe, University
of Pennsylvania
Cheek, Dennis
Dr. Dennis Cheek joined the John Templeton Foundation in the fall
of 2002 as Vice President for Venture Philanthropy Innovation and
as Managing Director of Templeton Venture Philanthropy Associates.
His work at the Foundation focuses principally on developing and delivering
high-quality venture philanthropy services to the Foundation, grantees
and nonprofit organizations to influence and leverage donor investments
worldwide.
Following an early career as a science and social studies teacher
in private and public schools in the United States and Germany, and
as a religious education instructor in Great Britain, Dr. Cheek served
in a variety of supervisory positions at the New York and Rhode Island
state departments of education. His responsibilities included the
development of science and social studies curriculum materials, statewide
assessment systems, educational accountability systems, management
information systems, high school reform, school libraries, school
counseling, career and technical education and adult basic and GED
education. His Thinking Constructively about Science, Technology and
Society Education (SUNY Press, 1992) introduced a groundbreaking new
framework on the subject. He also made significant contributions to
state level accountability systems.
Dr. Cheek has served on various ad-hoc and standing committees of
professional associations including the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, American Educational Research Association,
Kappa Delta Pi, National Association for Science, Technology and Society
and the National Science Teachers Association. He served as a senior
consultant for many years at Science Applications International Corporation
(SAIC). Dr. Cheek is a founding member of the Steering Group of the
international Campbell Collaboration and Chair of its Communications
and Globalization Group. He has contributed to or edited hundreds
of publications.
Dr. Cheek earned a B.A. in history from Towson State
University, a B.S. in biology from Regents College (now Excelsior
College) of the University of the State of New York, an M.A. in historical
studies from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and a Ph.D.
in curriculum and instruction/science education from Pennsylvania
State University. He is completing a second Ph.D. in theology at the
University of Durham, England. An ordained minister for the past thirty
years, Dr. Cheek has served churches and religious organizations worldwide
as a pastor and teacher.
Choi,
Hyung
Hyung S. Choi, Ph.D., is Director for Research and Programs in the
Natural Sciences at the Metanexus Institute. He is also a Visiting
Fellow at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University. He was a Witherspoon
Fellow at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley
and the founding director of the Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies
in Phoenix. Dr. Choi received both his M.Phil. and his Ph.D. in theoretical
physics from the Graduate Center of CUNY and his M.Div. from Princeton
Theological Seminary. Professor Choi is a recipient of many awards
for his research and teaching. His areas of expertise include quantum
measurement theory, quantum optics and the interdisciplinary area
between science and religion. Having recently completed the Bibliography
for Ultimate Reality project supported by the John Templeton Foundation,
he is currently writing a book entitled Knowledge of the Unseen: Probing
Deeper Realities.
Cole-Turner,
Ronald
Dr Ronald Cole-Turner is the H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology
and Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, a position that relates
theology and ethics to developments in science and technology. He
is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ and chairs
the UCC committee on genetics. He serves on the Advisory Board (Executive
Committee) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. Dr. Cole-Turner
is the author of The New Genesis: Theology and the Genetic Revolution
(Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993) and coauthor (with
Brent Waters) of Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning
of Life (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1996). He is the editor of
Human Cloning: Religious Responses (Louisville, KY: Westminster John
Knox Press, 1997) and has written numerous articles. In 1998, he won
one of 12 international awards for "Quality and Excellence in
Teaching" from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
Devinney,
Edward
Edward J. Devinney, Jr. received a B.A. in Physics from LaSalle University
and a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania.
His astronomical interests include instrumentation, observational
aspects of solar eclipses and binary stars, including black hole binaries.
He is widely known for the "Wilson/Devinney" computer code
for binary star light-curve analysis used by scores of astronomers,
which enjoys over 700 literature citations. His ten-year academic
career in the Florida university system included two years as a National
Academy of Sciences Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard Space
Center. A subsequent industry career included nine years with Siemens
US research labs as Department Head, Artificial Intelligence and Chief
Scientist. He spun out a high-technology company from Siemens and
served seven years as CEO. Currently, he is Visiting Professor of
Astronomy and Astrophysics at Villanova University. His long interest
in philosophy and religion stems from his undergraduate education,
which included minors in both topics. He is also strongly interested
in the philosophy of science. He is an inveterate fan of cultures,
music and language, and aspires to be a Renaissance Person in his
next life.
Ellis, George
George F. R. Ellis, FRAS, is professor of applied mathematics at the
University of Cape Town. After completing his Ph.D. at Cambridge University
with Dennis Sciama as supervisor, he lectured at Cambridge and has
been visiting professor at Texas University, the University of Chicago,
Hamburg University, Boston University, the University of Alberta,
and Queen Mary College (London University). He has written many papers
on relativity theory and cosmology, and inter alia co-authored The
Large Scale Structure of Space Time with Stephen Hawking, The Density
of Matter in the Universe with Peter Coles, and Dynamical Systems
in Cosmology with John Wainwright as well as Before the Beginning.
He has also written on science policy and developmental issues, science
education, and science and religion issues, and was co-author with
Nancey Murphy of On the Moral Nature of the Universe. He is past president
of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation
and of the Royal Society of South Africa. He has been awarded various
prizes and honorary degrees and was awarded the Star of South Africa
Medal by President Nelson Mandela in 1999. His most recent book is
The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective.
English,
Leigh
Leigh English, Ph.D. is Director of the Monsanto Protein Science Team.
This team is responsible for a broad set of activities including a
focus on the discovery, design and stewardship of the proteins in
Monsantos insect control products, BollgardTM and YieldgardTM , and
RoundupReady TM products. In addition, his team identifies areas where
protein-based skills and information are needed, and provides the
necessary assistance to meet those needs. The skills within the team
include protein isolation, purification, crystallization, X-Ray crystallography,
protein design and engineering, protein folding, membrane biophysics,
and insect and plant physiology.
Dr. English is a graduate of Cornell University, Harvard University,
and North Dakota State University. He completed his postdoctoral research
at Harvard University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
as an NIH Fellow of the Department of Red Cell Diseases. He was a
non-tenure tack faculty member in the Department of Physiology of
the Tufts University School of Medicine specializing in membrane biochemistry,
physiology and biophysics of red cell differentiation. He has been
with Monsanto since 1998 where he led the plant disease projects,
insect control discovery projects, and been the Program Director for
Plant Protection. He was also the Vice President and Chief Scientific
Officer of Ecogen Inc.
A Unitarian Universalist, he has a religious history that includes
years with the Presbyterian Church, the Lutheran Church, the United
Methodist Church, and the Religious Society of Friends. He has been
an educator in all of these denominations. He is a graduate of Harvard
Divinity School (MTS 1982), and remains an avid reader, teacher and
preacher. He is particularly interested in issues related to the implementation
of scientific and religious information in decision-making and the
creation of jobs. He is an amateur athlete, registered Judo coach,
instructor and referee. He lives in St. Louis with his wife, two teen-age
children, one dog, and one bird.
Fisher,
George
George Fisher has studied geology at Dartmouth College (A.B, 1959)
and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1963) and theology at St. Mary's
Seminary (M.A, 2002). He has taught in the Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University since 1966, and served
as Dean of Arts and Sciences from 1983 to 1987. This year he will
become Director of Hopkins' Institute for Global Studies of Culture,
Power, and History. In the last decade, his interests have shifted
from geology to the study of human interactions with Earth in their
scientific, social, and religious dimensions, and to philosophical
and religious ways of understanding the place of humans in the natural
system. Recent publications include: Fisher, G. W., 2000, Sustainable
Living: Common Ground for Geology and Theology; in The Earth Around
Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet, Jill Schneiderman, ed., W. H. Freeman
and Company, p. 99-111. Fisher, G. W., 2001, "A Livable Future:
Linking Geology and Theology," in Kellert, Steven, ed. The Good
in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and the Natural
World, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 113-122. Fisher, G.
W., 2002, "Sustainable Human Development: Connecting the Scientific
and Moral Dimensions," in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems,
UNESCO " EOLSS, Geneva, CH.
Grassie, William
William "Billy" Grassie, Ph.D. is founder and executive director,
Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science <www.metanexus.net>.
Grassie also serves as executive editor of the Institute's online
magazine and discussion forum with over 40,000 weekly page views and
over 6000 regular subscribers in 57 different countries. He has taught
in a variety of positions at Temple University, Swarthmore College,
and the University of Pennsylvania. Grassie received his doctorate
in religion from Temple University in 1994 and his BA from Middlebury
College in 1979. Prior to graduate school, Grassie worked for ten
years in religiously-based social service and advocacy organizations
in Washington, D.C; Jerusalem, Israel; Berlin, Germany; and Philadelphia,
PA. He is the recipient of a number of academic awards and grants
from the American Friends Service Committee, the Roothbert Fellowship,
and the John Templeton Foundation. He is a member of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers).
Haught,
John
John F. Haught is Thomas Healey Professor of Theology at Georgetown
University. His area of specialization is systematic theology, witha
particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, ecology,
and religion. He is the author of Deeper Than Darwin: Evolution and
the Question of God (Westview, 2003); Responses to 101 Questions on
God and Evolution (Paulist Press, 2001); God After Darwin: A theology
of Evolution (Westview Press, 2000); Science and Religion: From Conflict
to Conversation (Paulist Press, 1995); The Promise of Nature: Ecology
and Cosmic Purpose (Paulist Press, 1993); Mystery and Promise: A Theology
of Revelation (Liturgical Press, 1993); What Is Religion? (Paulist
Press, 1990); The Revelation of God in History (Michael Glazier Press,
1988); What Is God? (Paulist Press, 1986); The Cosmic Adventure (Paulist
Press, 1984); Nature and Purpose (University Press of America, 1980);
Religion and Self-Acceptance (Paulist Press, 1976); and editor of
Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose (Georgetown University
Press, 2000) as well as numerous articles and reviews. He lectures
often on topics related to religion and science, cosmology, theology,
and ecology.
Hefner,
Philip
Philip Hefner is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America, and has spent his entire career teaching in Lutheran seminaries
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and since 1967 in Hyde Park, Chicago (where
he retired in 2001). He has attempted to balance a concern for the
theology of the Christian tradition, and of Lutheranism, with attention
to contemporary culture, particularly the arts and the natural sciences.
His first serious attention to religion-and-science issues began in
the 1962 (having just received a Ph.D.), when he was invited to lecture
on this topic at the college that was the predecessor of the present
State University of New York at Oneonta. This led to more study, the
establishment of a faculty dialogue group at Wittenberg University
(Ohio), where he was teaching, and in 1967 to a 35 year-long association
with Ralph Wendell Burhoe, the founder of Zygon: Journal of Religion
and Science, co-founder of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science,
and recipient of the 1980 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
(he was the first American to receive this prize). Hefner is amazed
at how things have developed since then. In the 1960s, religion-and-science
was Hefner’s “hobby,” and it was received as such
by his peers. The field had never been his sole vocation, but it could
have easily become that. Hefner served a the director of thr Zygon
Center from 1988-2003.
Hefner’s bibliography of published writings includes 6 books
and more than 150 scholarly articles, about half of which deal with
religion and the natural sciences, while the other half deal with
traditional historical and theological issues. Among his books are
his dissertation, Faith and the Vitalities of History: A Theological
Study Based on the Thought of Albrecht Ritschl (Harper and Row, 1966);
The Promise of Teilhard (Lippincott, 1970); (with Robert Benne), Defining
America: A Christian Critique of the American Dream (Fortress Press,
1974); The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion (Fortress Press,
1993); Natur-Weltbild-eligion (Institut Technik-Theologie-Naturwissenschaften;
Verlag Evangelischer Presseverband fuer Bayern, 1995); and Technology
and Human Becoming (Fortress Press, 2003). He also translated and
edited a volume of Ritschl's shorter writings, Three Essays by Albrecht
Ritschl (Fortress Press, 1972). He contributed two essays ("Creation"
and "Church") to the two-volume work, Christian Dogmatics
(eds., Carl Braaten and Robert Jenson; Fortress Press, 1984) His 2002
Rockwell lectures, delivered at Rice University, on the theme of the
“Created Co-Creator,” will be published by Trinity International
Press.
Hefner has held several dozen visiting teaching and
lecturing appointments at seminaries, colleges, and universities in
the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He also represented his
church on a number of ecumenical commissions, including, most recently,
the dialogue commission between the Lutheran World Federation and
the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and as a member of the U.
S. A. Lutheran-Reformed Coordinating Committee.
Hood, Ralph
Dr. Hood is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has a long standing interest in the empirical study of religion. His research has focused upon religious experience, especially mystical experience. In addition he continues extensive field work on the serpent handling holiness sects of Appalachia He is a past president of the Psychology of Religion division of APA and a recipient of the William James award from that division. He was involved in the creation of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. He served as Book Review Editor and also as Co-editor. He is a past editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is currently a board member of the Internationalle Gesellschaft Für Religionpsychologie. Recent books include two edited volumes published by Religious Education Press: Handbook of Religious Experience and Measures of Religiosity (with Peter Hill). Dimension of Mystical Experiences has just been published by Rodopi. Currently he is completing a third edition of The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach (with Bernie Spilka and Bruce Hunsberger) to be published by Guilford Press.
Hufford,
David
David Hufford, Ph.D., is Director of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, Interim Chair and Professor of Medical Humanities, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. At the University of Pennsylvania he is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies and a faculty member of the Master in Bioethics Program. Dr. Hufford has taught about religion, spirituality and health at the College of Medicine since 1974. He won a Templeton Foundation Faith & Medicine Award in 1995, the first year of that program to support religion and health courses in medical schools, and he has taught that course to fourth-year medical students since that time. At Penn he has taught courses in spiritual belief and in alternative medicine since 1979, and currently leads an initiative to develop a Center for Spirituality, Religion and Health at Penn, connecting the School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences.
Hummel, Leonard
Leonard M. Hummel is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Counseling and Pastoral Theology at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Professor Hummel's research interests include Pietism and Practical Theology, Community Psychology, consolation for suffering within the Lutheran tradition, and research methods in pastoral theology. He teaches courses in the following areas: Religion and Coping, Pastoral Care for Addictions and Mental Disorders, Health and Salvation, Practical Theology and Historical Theology. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Professor Hummel is advisor to Lutheran students at the Divinity School. He is a recipient of a Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research grant.
Ironson,
Gail
Dr. Ironson is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Miami. Dr. Ironson specializes in Behavioral Medicine and served as the President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. After receiving her doctorate in quantitative psychology from the University of Wisconsin she pursued her medical degree from the University of Miami, with a psychiatry residency at Stanford University. As a recognized expert in her field, she is a Fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine and Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, as well as sitting on the Editorial Boards of several journals. She has conducted extensive research in the areas of behavioral medicine with HIV, cancer, and cardiac patients, and has published over 100 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed publications.
Jackélen,
Antje
Reverend Dr. Antje Jackelén is associate professor of systematic
theology/religion and science at the Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago and is director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science
in Chicago. She studied theology in Bielefeld-Bethel and Tübingen,
Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden. Ordained for the ministry in the Church
of Sweden in 1980, she has held positions in parish ministry and participated
in the continued education of priests and the training of ordinands.
She received her Ph.D. in systematic theology from Lund University,
Sweden in 1999. Dr. Jackelén has been a member of the European
Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) since it began
in 1990. She has served as the ESSSAT secretary, as member of the
organizing committees for several European Conferences on Science
and Theology, and as editor of ESSSAT-News. She is currently a council
member of ESSSAT. From 1999-2001, she served as regional director
for Europe of the Science and Religion Course Program of the Center
for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California. Her publications
include books in German and Swedish as well as numerous articles in
theology and religion-and-science issues. Her most recent book is
entitled Time and Eternity: The Concept of Time in Church, Natural
Sciences and Theology (2002) [published in German, English translation
forthcoming.]
Katz, Solomon
Dr. Solomon Katz is President of the Metanexus Institute, Director of the Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development, and Professor of Physical Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in science and religion spans over 30 years, including leadership in the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), where he served as president, 1977 to 1979 and 1981 to 1984. He has served as co-chair and associate editor of the Zygon Publication Board and Journal since 1979. Dr. Katz was president of the Center for the Advanced Study of Religion and Science from 1989-2002 and served on the advisory board of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the AAAS. Dr. Katz has edited numerous books and series on the anthropology of food and nutrition and most recently served as editor-in-chief of the award winning international 3-volume Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, published by Scribners in 2003.
Koss-Chioino,
Joan
Joan D. Koss-Chioino, Ph.D. is Professor Anthropology and affiliate of the Women's Studies Department at Arizona State University. She is also Research Professor at George Washington University, Washington Program for Ethnographic Research Training in HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and violence, a NIDA-funded, postdoctoral training grant. Dr. Koss developed a Program in Medical Anthropology at A.S.U. and continues to work at the interface between anthropology, psychiatry and psychology. Her primary research interests are the treatment of illness and emotional disorders, and the maintenance of well-being both of which include spirituality and spiritual transformation. Her studies include traditional, alternative and psychotherapeutic treatments in Latino cultures in the U.S., Latin America, Spain and Thailand. Currently she is completing analyses of a family and group treatment outcome study with Mexican American youths and families in Arizona, and has recently begun a study of emotion regulation among women in Andalusia, Spain. Among her publications are: Women as Healers, Women as Patients: Mental Health Care and Traditional Healing in Puerto Rico (Westview Press, 1992), Working With Culture: Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Minority Children and Adolescents, editor, with Luis A. Vargas (Jossey Bass, 1992) and Working With Latino Youth: Culture: Development and Context (1999), with Luis A. Vargas as coauthor.
McNeill,
J.R.
John R. McNeill, Ph.D. is professor of history at Georgetown University
and Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environment and International Affairs
at the University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. A graduate
of Swarthmore College, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.
He has taught at Goucher College and Duke University before coming
to Georgetown in 1985. He is the author of many books and articles
among them The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental
History (Cambridge University Press, 1992); Something New Under the
Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th -century World (Norton,
2000); The Human Web: A Birds Eye View of World History (Norton, 2003)
with W. H. McNeill; and Encyclopedia of World Environmental History
(New York: Routledge, 2003) co-edited with Sheperd Krech and Carolyn
Merchant. Dr. McNeill is the recipient of multiple grants and awards
including two Fulbright research grant, and Guggenheim and MacArthur
fellowships.
Meyers,
Mary Ann
Mary Ann Meyers, Ph.D. is a writer and the Senior Fellow at the John
Templeton Foundation. For more than a decade she served as Secretary
of the University of Pennsylvania, where throughout her tenure she
taught an American civilization course in the History of Religion
in America. She was subsequently President of The Annenberg Foundation
and Vice President for External Affairs at Moore College of Art and
Design. Earlier in her career, she was an assistant to Penn¹s
President (and now President Emeritus) Martin Meyerson. She also served
as Director of College Relations at Haverford
College, where she taught in the Freshman Seminar Program and edited
the college¹s alumni magazine.
Dr. Meyers is the author of Art, Education and African-American
Culture:
Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy (2004), A New World
Jerusalem:
The Swedenborgian Experience in Community Construction (1983), a co-author
of Religion in American Life (1987), Coping With Serious Illness (1977),
and Death in America (1975), as well as contributor to Gladly Learn and
Gladly
Teach: Franklin and His Heirs at the University of Pennsylvania (1978).
Her
work has appeared in academic journals, general-interest magazines,
and
newspapers. For many years, she was a contributing editor of The
Pennsylvania Gazette. Her articles for the Penn alumni magazine won
a
variety of prizes, including the Newsweek-CASE Award for Public Affairs
Reporting and a Silver Medal in the CASE Competition for the Best
Article of
the Year, as well as awards from Women in Communications.
Currently secretary and a director of the American Academy of Political
and
Social Science, Dr. Meyers also serves as a trustee of the University
of
Pennsylvania Press and a member of the Board of Advisors of Penn¹s
Department of Biology. She has been an overseer of the University¹s
School
of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Annenberg Center Board of Advisors,
and a trustee of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia among other
professional and civic activities.
A magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, where she was
elected to
Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Meyers earned a Ph.D. in American civilization
at the
University of Pennsylvania. She heads the Humble Approach initiative,
a
Templeton program that brings together scientists, philosophers, and
theologians in a series of international symposia.
Micozzi,
Marc
Dr. Micozzi is currently the Executive Director of the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine and of Rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the past Executive Director of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Prior to joining the College, Dr. Micozzi was the founding Director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine and a Distinguished Scientist with the American Registry of Pathology in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the first textbook on this subject for physicians and medical students. He was the founding editor of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Dr. Micozzi has worked to foster communication and cooperation between "mainstream" and alternative medicine on issues of policy research and education. Dr. Micozzi earned an M.D. (1979) and a Ph.D. in anthropology (1984) from the University of Pennsylvania. He has presented more than 120 scholarly papers at professional conferences and is the author of over 140 scientific publications. His work has appeared in a number of distinguished publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine; the American Journal of Public Health; the Journal of the National Cancer Institute; and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Miller,
Craig
Rabbi Craig Miller oversees Inter-religous Affairs and Disaster Spiritual Care for the Jewish Community Relations Council of NY (JCRC). He also serves as Campus Liaison for the JCRC and NY Board of Rabbis, of which he serves as a VP. In the campus capacity he works as the Jewish Chaplain for Baruch College. Rabbi Miller's interests focus on the relationship between science and humanity's spiritual journey as well as Mussar, the Jewish tradition dealing with wise living. These interests were focused by his experience as a Red Cross chaplain post-9/11. Over the past two years he has begun speaking and teaching Mussar and its relationship to science. Rabbi Miller, a graduate of the New School, was ordained by Beis Medrash L'Torah in Passaic and is pursuing graduate studies in science and philosophy. His greatest joy and learning comes from his wife Judi and three children. Rabbi Miller is representing the Local Societies initiative of the Torah Science Foundation, website: www.torahscience.org.
Miller,
James
Jim Miller is a native of North Carolina. He received his undergraduate
education at the University of Maryland where he earned a BA (1965)
in American Studies after beginning his undergraduate studies in Mechanical
Engineering. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA,
he earned an MDiv (1968) at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
and a PhD (1986) in Theology and Society from Marquette University
in Milwaukee with a focus on science and theology. His dissertation
title was: Beyond Dualism: Cosmological Issues for Christian Theology
in a Postmodern, Postcritical Context. For five years following seminary,
Jim worked in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at North Carolina
State University. He served for six years as the ecumenical Protestant
campus minister at Michigan Technological University and, from 1984
until 1996, Jim was on the staff of United Campus Ministry of Pittsburgh
and its Director beginning in 1987. While in Pittsburgh, Jim taught
courses on "Science and Christianity," "Religions of
the World's Peoples" and "Introduction to Religion"
as an adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University where he was instrumental
in the development of the University's religious studies minor. Since
August 1996 Jim has served as the Senior Program Associate for the
Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. He is
the editor of An Evolving Dialogue: Scientific, Historical, Philosophical
and Theological Perspectives on Evolution (AAAS, 1998; revised edition,
Trinity Press International, 2001), Cosmic Questions (Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, 2001), and co-editor of The Church and
Contemporary Cosmology (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989). He
is a member of National Capital Presbytery. Jim was the founding Secretary/Treasurer
and is the current President of the Presbyterian Association on Science,
Technology and the Christian Faith. He and his wife, Kathi, have three
grown children and four grandchildren.
Pennington,
Frank
Reverend Frank Pennington grew up in central Pennsylvania but has
spent most of his life in New York State and in the Philadelphia region.
His first churches involved an Associate Pastor's position working
primarily with university students on campuses in Buffalo, NY, and
as Minister with a United Church of Christ congregation in the Finger
Lakes Region south of Rochester. Frank is a '72 graduate of Colgate
Rochester Crozer Divinity School with a Master of Divinity Degree,
and has been at The United Church of Christ at Valley Forge, Wayne,
PA, since 1980. Continuing education is a priority for Frank, reflecting
his active interest in the role of spirituality and the church in
culture and contemporary issues, particularly the growing dialogue
between religion and science. Involved at both Association and Conference
levels of the wider United Church of Christ, he believes the church
should be a "meeting house" for the interplay of faith,
spirituality, congregational life, and issues of social consequence.
Current involvements include regional cultural organizations, leadership
roles in ecumenical organizations, as well as membership on the Metanexus
Institute's Board of Directors. Wider interests include contemporary
music, writing, film, the arts, cycling and running. In the summer,
Frank enjoys climbing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with
his seventeen-year-old daughter, a student at Conestoga High School.
Frank's spouse is an educator working with autistic children and children
facing pervasive neurological issues.
Petto,
Andrew
Andrew Petto brings a long career in science education and anthropological
research to his position as Associate Professor in the Division of
Liberal Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He holds
a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology with a concentration in religious
studies. Petto holds a M.A. in Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Biological
Anthropology. His post-doctoral studies included 2 years at the New
England Regional Primate Research Center at Harvard Medical School
and 1 year in the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M). Prior to coming to UArts, Dr. Petto served
as the associate director of the Center for Biology Education and
later as an outreach specialist in the Department of Genetics, both
at the UW-M.
Dr. Petto has taught courses in anthropology, human evolution, primatology, zoology, biopsychology, human anatomy and physiology at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Calgary, Rhode Island College, Mt. Ida College, Waukesha County Technical College, UW-M, Upper Iowa University, Capri College, and Madison Area Technical College before coming to UArts in fall, 1998 to assume responsibility for the undergraduate science requirement. Dr. Petto has also taught in enrichment programs for advanced secondary students and outreach programs for pre-college teachers. He has been involved in multicultural science teaching programs and activities and has directed workshops on integrated, multidisciplinary teaching in the sciences. Since 1994, he has served on the board of directors at the National Center for Science Education and became the NCSE editor in 1995. He is currently working with Laurie R, Godfrey on a revised edition of Scientists Confront Creationism to be published by W.W. Norton in early 2003.
Raman,
Varadaraja V.
Dr. Varadaraja V. Raman received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees
in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Calcutta before
doing his doctoral work on the foundations of quantum mechanics at
the University of Paris where he worked under Louis de Broglie. He
has taught in a number of institutions, including the Saha Institute
for Nuclear Physics in Calcutta, the Universite d'Alger in Algiers
and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, from where,
after serving as professor of Physics and Humanities, he has retired
as Emeritus Professor. He was associated with the UNESCO as an educational
expert. Dr. Raman has also devoted several years to the study and
elucidation of Hindu culture and religion. He is an associate editor
in the eighteen volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism Project. Dr. Raman
has authored scores of papers on the historical, social, and philosophical
aspects of physics/science, as well as on India's heritage, and has
authored eight books including Scientific Perspectives, Glimpses of
Ancient Science and Scientists, Nuggets from the Gita, and Varieties
of Science History. Dr. Raman serves on the board of the Metanexus
Insitute and is a regular contributor to its online magazine.
Richardson,
Mark
Reverend Dr. W. Mark Richardson is Professor of Theology at the General
Theological Seminary in New York and a priest in the Episcopal Church.
He co-edited Religion and Science: History, Method and Dialogue, which
won a 1996 Templeton Prize for Outstanding Books in Science and Religion,
and Human and Divine Agency. Richardson conceived and directed the
original Science and Spiritual Quest I project, which culminated in
the internationally acclaimed SSQ I conference at the University of
California, Berkeley in 1998. Since 1999, the Rev. Dr. Richardson
has served as Co-Investigator of the Science and the Spiritual Quest
II program at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and
co-edited the SSQ volumes Faith in Science: Scientists Search for
Truth and Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists.
Rick-Miller,
Andrew
Andrew Rick-Miller is interested in building bridges between the academic
dialogue on religion-and-science and clergy and faith communities.
Following focused study in physics and English literature at Northwestern
University , Rick-Miller attended Princeton Theological Seminary to
study Christian theology with Wentzel van Huyssteen and to receive
pastoral training. At Princeton , Rick-Miller focused on questions
of creation with a particular interest in the theological implications
of theories joining quantum mechanics and relativity – the topic of
his senior thesis. Rick-Miller spent two years serving Presbyterian
congregations, one in LaGrande , OR and the other in Groomsport ,
Northern Ireland . In working with these congregations and in his
studies, Rick-Miller felt there was a glaring need for clergy and
local faith communities to participate in conversations occurring
between religion and science.
Rick-Miller serves as the Outreach Coordinator for the Local Societies
Initiative. In his efforts to locate leaders and develop new science
and religion dialogue groups, he seeks to build bridges between the
academic dialogue and students, clergy, laity, and other members of
the public. Rick-Miller also leads educational programs and preaches
in local faith communities as well as encouraging clergy and laity
to participate in ongoing Metanexus programs.
Rick-Miller is an active member of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
His wife, Katherine, is a Presbyterian pastor serving a congregation
in Philadelphia .
Singh,
T. D.
T. D. Singh (1937-): An extraordinary combination of a scientist,
a spiritualist, an active promoter of world peace, an interfaith leader,
an educationist, a poet, a singer, and a cultural ambassador. He is
well known for his pioneering efforts for more than thirty years to
interface between science and religion for a deeper understanding
of life and the universe. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Organic
Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine in 1974. He has
contributed many papers in the Journal of American Chemical Society
and the Journal of Organic Chemistry in the field of fast proton transfer
kinetics in model biological systems using stopped-flow technique
and NMR spectroscopy. He also worked on gas phase reaction mechanisms
using Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR) spectroscopy. He underwent Vaishnava
Vedanta Studies (1970-77) under His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupäda
and was appointed as Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute (1974-),
which is a center to promote studies about the relationship between
science and vedanta. He has organized three International conferences
on science and religion - First and Second World Congress for the
Synthesis of Science and Religion (1986 & 1997) and First International
Conference on the Study of Consciousness within Science (1990) where
a galaxy of prominent scientists and religious leaders including several
Nobel Laureates participated. He is also organizing "Second International
Congress on Life and its Origin: Exploration from Science and Various
Spiritual and Religious Traditions" in Rome, Italy from November
12-15, 2004. He has authored and edited several books including What
is Matter and What is Life? (1977), Theobiology (1979), (Ed.) Synthesis
of Science and Religion: Critical Essays and Dialogues (1987), Thoughts
on Synthesis of Science and Religion (2001), and Seven Nobel Laureates
on Science and Spirituality (2004). He is the Editor-in-chief of the
Journal of the Bhaktivedanta Institute entitled, Savijnanam: Scientific
Exploration for a Spiritual Paradigm (www.savijnanam.org).
Dr. Singh is a founding member of the United Religions Initiative
(URI). He is president of its Manipur (Northeastern India) Cooperation
Circle and instrumental in starting its Kuala Lumpur Cooperation Circle.
He started a network of schools in Northeastern India where about
4000 students receive education centered on spiritual values. He is
the founder and Director of "Ranganiketan Manipuri Cultural Arts
Troupe" which has approximately 600 performances at over 300
venues in over 15 countries. He guides over a thousand of his students
around the world in the techniques of spiritual life. His poems inspire
introspection and his beautiful singing of prayer at the opening of
various global peace and interfaith meetings is a much-awaited sacred
moment.
Web: www.bvinst.org
Tucker,
Mary Evelyn
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a professor of religion at Bucknell University
in Lewisburg , Pennsylvania , where she teaches courses in world religions,
Asian religions, religion and ecology. She held the National Endowment
for the Humanities Chair in the Humanities at Bucknell from 1993-1996.
She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in the history of
religions, specializing in Confucianism in Japan where she has lived
for several years. She has traveled extensively in Asia over the last
30 years.
She has written Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological
Phase (Open Court Press, 2003) as well as Moral and Spiritual
Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989). She co-edited
Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology
(Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard,
1998), and Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000). She also
co-edited When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell
Us About the Story of the Universe and Our Place In It (Open
Court 2002). She co-edited two volumes with Tu Weiming on Confucian
Spirituality published by Crossroad in the series on World
Spirituality in 2003 (volume 1) and in 2004 (volume 2).
She and her husband, John Grim, directed the series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School from 1996-1998. They organized three culminating conferences at Harvard, at the United Nations, and at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. They are the series editors for the ten volumes that are being published from the conferences by the Center and distributed by Harvard University Press.
They edited a special issue of Daedalus on “Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change?” (Fall 2001) The focus of this issue is the ethical dimension of global warming. The papers are available at http://www.daedalus.amacad.org/issues/fall2001/fall2001.htm
In addition, they are now coordinating the ongoing Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE) with a web site at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. http://environment.harvard.edu/religion
Mary Evelyn has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986 and is Vice President of the American Teilhard Association. She was a member of the Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000.
van
Huyssteen, J. Wenztel
Professor J. Wentzel van Huyssteen originally from South Africa, was
Princeton Theological Seminary's first James I. McCord Professor of
Theology and Science. He has research degrees in Philosophy (MA: University
of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Philosophical Theology (Ph.D: Free
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and he specializes in philosophy
of science and religious epistemology. Van Huyssteen is married to
Hester van Huyssteen and they have four children. He was Head of the
Department of Religion at the University of Port Elizabeth, South
Africa, 1972-1991. He has been a member of the Steering Committee
of the Theology and Science Section of the American Academy of Religion
since 1992. Dr van Huyssteen's awards include three Templeton Awards
and the Andrew Murray and Venter Prizes for Academic Excellence for
his book Theology and the Justification of Faith: Constructing Theories
in Systematic Theology (1989). In 1998 van Huyssteen gave the John
Albert Hall Lectures at the University of Victoria (British Columbia).
His books, Essays in Postfoundationalist Theology (1997), Rethinking
Theology and Science (1998, with Niels H. Gregersen), and Duet or
Duel? Theology and Science in a Postmodern World (1998) were all nominated
for the Templeton Awards for Outstanding Books in Theology and the
Natural Sciences. In 1999 the Dutch Royal Academy for Arts and Sciences
invited him to become the Chair of the International Committee for
the Assessment of Theological Research in The Netherlands. He is also
a member of the Worldwide Board of Advisors of the John Templeton
Foundation. Dr. van Huyssteen is Editor-in-Chief of the new Encyclopedia
for Religion and Science, (forthcoming, 2003).
Wason,
Paul
Paul Wason was named Director of Science and Religion Programs for
the John Templeton Foundation in 1999. He works with scientist, theologians,
philosophers and ministers on programs which feature the constructive
engagement of science and religion and which, together enhance our
spiritual knowledge and further our understanding of the cosmos, life
and humanity.
Dr. Wason is an anthropologist with a specialty in prehistoric
archaeology. His esearch on inequality, social evolution and archaeological
theory has been published as The Archaeology of Rank (Cambridge, 1994)
and in other works, and he is currently studying the changing relations
between religion, status and leadership as evidenced by the stone
circles and other monument of Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe.
Before joining the Foundation, Dr. Wason spent ten years at
Bates College as Director of Foundations and Corporations and as a
sponsored research administrator, overseeing all aspects of Bates'
interaction with private foundations, corporate-giving programs and
government granting agencies. He also served on the College's multi-year
strategic planning effort, and on L/A Excels, unique alliance of businesses,
non-profit organizations and the Cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine
for the purpose of implementing a new community vision. Dr. Wason
has also served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Southern Maine Chapter
of Sigma Xi, as Treasurer of The Children's Rainforest, USA, and as
Faculty Advisor for the Bates Christian Fellowship. He is a member
of the Social Science Commission of the American Scientific Affiliation.
He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the State University
of New York at Stony Brook and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates
College where he earned a B.S. in biology. He has engaged in field
studies in Peru, Scotland, the Czech Republic, Maine and New York.
Dr. Wason is married and has two children with whom he enjoys hiking,
camping, kayaking and gardening.
Wolpe,
Paul Root
Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow of the Center of Bioethics
at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in
the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Sociology. He is
the Director of the Program in Psychiatry and Ethics at Penn, and
is a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
Dr. Wolpe also serves as the first Chief of Bioethics for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The office is responsible
for safeguarding the protections of research subjects and astronauts
both within NASA and among our international space partners. Dr. Wolpe
is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in sociology,
medicine, and bioethics, and has contributed to a variety of encyclopedias
on bioethical issues. His research examines the role of ideology and
culture in medical thought, encompassing such diverse fields as genetics
and biotechnology, mental health and illness, sexuality and reproduction,
health care reform, religion and its role in bioethical debate, human
subjects research, and death and dying. Dr. Wolpe is the author of
the textbook Sexuality and Gender in Society and the end-of-life guide
In the Winter of Life. Dr. Wolpe sits on a number of national and
international non-profit organizational boards, journal editorial
boards, and working groups, and is a consultant to the biomedical
industry. He serves as bioethics advisor to the Philadelphia Department
of Human Services, Children and Youth Division. The winner of a number
of teaching and writing awards, Dr. Wolpe has been chosen by The Teaching
Company as a "Superstar Teacher of America," and two of
his courses are nationally distributed on audio and videotape. Wolpe
is a regular columnist on biotechnology for the Philadelphia Inquirer,
and appears frequently in the broadcast media, including MSNBC, CBS
and ABC Evening News, Dateline, and The Jim Lehrer Show, and has recently
been cited in news sources such as The Washington Post, The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles
Times, and U.S. News and World Report.