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School of Life Sciences
Human Dimensions
This faculty group focuses research and education on human interactions with nature and the environment; the science of humans (behavior and evolution); science as a human endeavor (history and philosophy of science); and the interplay of science and society in the context of education, public policy, law and daily life.
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University Professor, Regents' Professor and Center Director
Members
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Name
Contact
Expertise
Professor; Assoc. Director Undergraduate Programs
Angilletta combines models and experiments to understand how animal populations adapt to changing environments.
480-965-4321
Associate Professor
Brownell is a neuroscientist turned full-time education researcher, who teaches undergraduate biology while studying biology education.
President's Professor
Creath is a philosopher of science who uses historical methods to study fundamental questions about the role of logic, mathematics, scientific methods and even philosophy within science.
480-965-6270
LSC 274
Administrative Professional
Ellison's research and teaching focus on research ethics and ethics education. She directs the School of Life Science Ethics Program, is an editor for the Online Ethics Center (onlineethics.org), and serves on the APPE board.
480-727-7111
LSC 270
Professor and GIOS Center Director
Gerber aims to accelerate the success of biodiversity management and sustainable biodiversity outcomes by fostering relationships among academics and decision makers.
480-727-3109
LSA 212
Emeritus Professor
Steven Hoffman is an immunologist, neuroscientist and philosopher who has studied how the immune system and brain interact, and currently is integrating this work into philosophical perspectives.
480-965-7024
LSE 617
Associate Professor
Hurlbut is trained in the history of modern biomedical and life sciences. His research lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, bioethics and political theory.
Professor
Kinzig looks at how humans shape and influence their natural environments and what this means for human health and Earth's ecosystems. Her work focuses on ecosystem services and the resilience of natural-resource systems.
480-965-6838
LSA 124
President's Professor and ASU-SFI BCI Director
Laubichler is a theoretical biologist and historian of science. He is director of the Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative at ASU and the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
480-965-5481
LSA 256
University Professor, Regents' Professor and Center Director
Maienschein and her team research embryology, genetics, and cell biology. She specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way biology, bioethics and bio-policy play out in society.
480-965-6105
LSC 284
Regents Professor; Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law & Ethics
Marchant frequently lectures about the intersection of law and science at national and international conferences. He's authored more than 150 articles and book chapters on various issues related to emerging technologies.
480-965-3246
Beus Center for Law & Society Arizona State University, 111 E. Taylor St.
Professor
Minteer is an environmental ethicist and conservation scholar who writes on species extinction, wilderness, zoos, and the evolution of American environmental thought and practice.
480-965-4632
LSA 262
Provost Emeritus; Foundation Chair of Life Sciences
Using the honey bee as a model, Regents Professor Page has dissected their complex foraging division of labor at all levels of biological organization from gene networks to complex social interactions.
480-965-1288
Fulton Center Suite 145
Professor
Perrings is co-director of School of Life Sciences Ecoservices Group—a group researching the interactions between society and the biophysical environment.
480-727-0472
LSA 127
Professor
Pigg is a paleobotanist who studies fossil plants that are related to modern groups of conifers, ferns and woody hardwood trees. Her group studies the origin of plants of the temperate deciduous biome.
480-965-3154
LSE 744 Arizona State University
Emeritus Professor
Pyne teaches courses on fire, the history exploration and science, and nonfiction writing. He is a world-renowned expert on fire and the history of fire.
480-965-4092
LSA 220
Associate Professor and Center Director
Jason Robert holds the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and is director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU. A bioethicist and philosopher of biology, he is also Dean's Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences.
480-727-2460
Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, ASU MC 9230, 111 E Taylor St, Ste 293
Assistant Professor
Studies the social epistemology of pluralism: what knowledge do we need to get things done together while differing in fundamental ways? Focuses on computation and data in systematics and evolutionary biology.
480-727-7881
Center for Biology and Society PO Box 873301
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