Braden Allenby is Professor of Engineering at the Fulton School of Engineering.  He joined ASU in 2004 after working for AT& T as Counsel, Senior Environmental Counsel, Research Vice-President for Technology and Environment, and Vice President for Environment, Health and Safety.  He also served for two years as Director of Engineering and Environmental System as Lawrence Livermore National Labs and held J. Herbert Hollowman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering.  He taught as an adjunct professor at Yale University School of Forestry, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton Theological Seminary, and University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.   He is the author of Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation (1999), which was translated into Russian and Chinese, and Reconstructing Earth (2005) in addition to numerous academic essays.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (since 1999) and the President of International Society for Industrial Ecology (since 2004).  He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University (1992) and J.D. from University of Virginia (1978).  His areas of expertise include: design for environment, earth systems engineering and management, industrial ecology, NBIC (i.e., nantotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive science), convergence and technological evolution.

Linell E. Cady is Franca Orrefice Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. She received her B.A. from Newton College (1974) and her M.T.S. (1976) and Th.D. from Harvard University (1981).  After teaching as an Assistant Professor at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, she joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1981.  Her research and teaching interests have focused primarily on the intersections of religion, theology, and the public/private boundary in the United States, method and theory in the study of religion, with particular attention to the identities of and border between religious studies and theology.  Her most extended treatment of this topic is Religion, Theology, and American Public Life (1993). This topic is the focus of a recently published co-edited volume Religious Studies, Theology and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain (2002). Her current research focuses on the constructions of religions and the secular, and their bearing upon the place of religion in public life within modern pluralistic societies.  She is the co-editor (with Sheldon Simon) of Disrupting Violence: Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia (2006).  Her extensive administrative experience includes the Chair of Religious Studies, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Associate Dean for Academic Personnel.  

Stuart Lindsay is the Director of the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics and Carson Presidential Chair in Physics.  He receives his Ph.D. from University of Manchester, England (1976) and worked for two years at the Philips Institute in London before coming to ASU in 1979.  He specializes in biophysics at the molecular level and scanning probe microscopy.  Much of his work aims at devising speedier diagnosis and medical breakthroughs to identify many disease.  He holds 27 patents and serves as the technical advisor for Molecular Imaging Corporation, a company he co-founded in 1993.  He is the author of 138 peer-reviewed articles in addition to numerous book chapters and refereed conference papers.  He serves on the editorial board of Biophysical Journal and AIP Press International Series in Basic and Applied Biological Physics.  He is on the editorial board of Biophysical Journal, the Associate Editor for Probe Microscospy at Ultramicrocscopy and Associate Editor for the Americas at Nanobiology.  He is a Fellow of American Association of the Advancement of Science and American Physical Society.

Gary Marchant is Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Science & Technology.  He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics (1986) from University of British Columbia, M.P.P in Public Policy form Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1990) and J.D. from Harvard Law School (1990).  He was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review.  Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 1999, he was a partner at the Washington DC office of the Law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law.  Professor Marchant teaches Environmental Law, Law, Science & Technology, Genetics and the Law, Environmental Justice. His current research interest include the use of genetic information in environmental regulation and toxic torts, the precautionary principle, and legal issues relating toe genetically modified foods.  He is the co-author (with Kenneth Mossman) of Arbitrary and Capricious: The Precautionary Principle in the European Union Courts (2004) and his peer-reviewed essays appeared in Environmental Law Reporter, Trends in Biotech, The Science of the Total Environment, Seton hall Law Review, and A Journal of Risk Research
 
Michael J. Mobley is the Associate Director for Arizona Biodesign Institute, (AZBio), at Arizona State University.  The Institute is the centerpiece in ASU’s effort to advance research in the biosciences and biomedicine in Arizona.  In this capacity, Dr. Mobley is responsible for the formation of this new institute as part of a new research complex at the ASU Main campus.  He also serves as the first point of contact between the AZBio and potential institutional and industrial partners.  For the past year, Mobley has also served as President of the Aslan Society, an interdenominational fellowship for Christian faculty and staff at ASU. Mobley comes to ASU with 21 years of Industrial Research and Development experience in the US and Europe.  For 9 years Mobley held a senior position as Director of R&D at the Procter & Gamble Company in their Health Care and Skin Beauty Care Divisions.  While at P&G, Mobley played a key role in bringing many health care innovations to the market.  A technical innovator, Mobley maintains a broad interest in science and technology and its applications and has a keen interest in the interface between science and faith.  Mobley holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Arizona State University, an M.S. in Chemical Physics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Arizona State University.

Barry G. Ritchie is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He conducts research in experimental medium energy physics, probing the structure of nucleons and their interactions with mesons.  Professor Ritchie received a B.S. in physics from Appalachian State University in 1975. His graduate studies at the University of South Carolina (USC) were in heavy-ion nuclear physics, using the UNISOR isotope separator facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for his master’s (1977) and doctoral (1979) degrees. He then began research in medium energy physics at the Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) in Los Alamos, NM and at the Paul Scherer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland, serving as a postdoctoral fellow at USC (1980-83) and postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland (1983-1984). He joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1984, and has served as Associate Chair (1994-2000) and Chair (2000 to present) of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since coming to ASU, his research has branched out to include work with photon-induced reactions at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Virginia and with neutrinos in the Palo Verde Neutrino Detector Laboratory. A member of the American Physical Society, Ritchie has served on technical advisory panels for facilities at LAMPF, PSI, and Jefferson Lab, and as spokesman for numerous experiment collaborations at national laboratories. He has published over 90 papers in refereed journals on his research, supported by external funding of nearly $3 million.

Norbert M. Samuelson is the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University and Professor of Religious Studies.  In addition to over 200 articles and three edited volumes, he is the author of seven books.  He began with a pioneering work on Levi Ben Gershom (Gersonides) -- Gersonides on God's Knowledge (1977) which focused on the interplay between science and religion in a 14th century thinker.  Since then he authored three major constructive philosophico-theological works—The First Seven Days: A Philosophical Commentary on the Creation of Genesis  (1992), Judaism and the  Doctrine of Creation (1994), and Revelation and the God of Israel (2002)—that show how the biblical text could be better understood in the light of contemporary physics and the life sciences.  Prof.  Samuelson also wrote A Users' Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption (1999), to help readers decipher this seminal text in 20th century Jewish philosophy, and Jewish Philosophy: An Historical Introduction (2003), a textbook for undergraduates.  He is a founding member of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, International Society for Science and Religion, the Franz Rosenzweig Gesellschaft and the Hermann Cohen Gesellschaft in addition to being active in the American Theological Society, the American Philosophical Association, and being a board member of the Metanexus Institute of Science and Religion.  In these organizations he has articulated a distinctly Jewish way of doing philosophy and demonstrated how to think creatively and precisely about the interface of reason and faith. 

Daniel Sarewitz is Professor of Science and Society at the School of Life Sciences and the Department of Geosciences, and Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes.  He holds a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Cornell University (1986) and his work focuses n understanding the connections between scientific research and social benefit, and on developing methods and policies to strengthen such connections.  He is the author of Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology and the Politics of Progress (1996) and the co-editor, with Alan Lightman and Christian Desser of Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for human Mastery (2003), as well as Prediction: Science, Decision-Making, and the Future of Nature (2000).  He has also written many articles, speeches, and reports about the relationship between science and social progress.  Prior to taking up his current position, he was the director of the Geological Society of American’s Institute for Environmental Education.  From 1989-1993 he worked on Capitol Hill, first as a Congressional Science Fellow, and then as science consultant to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, where he was also principal speech writer for Committee Chairman, George E. Brown JR.  Before moving into policy making he was a Research Associate in the Department of Geological Sciences at Cornell University, with field areas in the Philippines, Argentina, and Tajikistan.  

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Project Manager) is Professor of History in Arizona State University.  She specializes in premodern Jewish intellectual history, Judaism and science, Judaism and ecology, and feminist philosophy.  She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978) and a B.A. from SUNY-Stony Brook (1974).  Prior to joining ASU in 1999, she taught at Indiana University, Emory University, Columbia University, and Hebrew Union College (New York).  In addition to articles and book chapters, she is the author of Between Worlds – The Life and Work of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (1991) received the award of the Hebrew University for the best work in Jewish history for 1991.  Her most recent book is Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being in Pre-modern Judaism (2003). She is also the editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed World (2002) and Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy (2004).  Her current projects include a book on Nature and Judaism (Rowman and Littlefield) and the edited volume Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas; Historical and Philosophical Studies (Brill).  She sits on the Editorial Board of Journal of American Academy of Religion and on the Academic Advisory Board of the Metanexus Institute on Science and Religion.

Professor Michael J. White is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law who holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of California, San Diego (1974).  He has been a member of the Department of Philosophy at Arizona State University since 1974, and since 2004 he splits his position between the Department of Philosophy and the College of Law.  In addition to over 50 articles in scholarly journals, he is the author of Political Philosophy: An Historical Introduction (2003); Partisan or Neutral? The Futility of Public Political Theory (1997), The Continuous and the Discrete: Ancient Physical Theories from a Contemporary Perspective (1992), and Agency and Integrity: Philosophical Themes in Ancient Discussions of Determinism and Responsibility (1985).  He works principally in the three areas: (a) history of philosophy, science, and mathematics (especially during Greek and Roman antiquity); (b) formal logic; and (c) political philosophy and related areas of moral theory and jurisprudence.  His recent interests include the history and theory of natural law and the interaction of this tradition with theology and with other jurisprudential traditions such as legal positivism.  White writes on the role of mathematics in the thought of Plato and the history and conceptual foundations of non-standard (non-Archimdean) analysis and set theory.