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Shobita Parthasarathy (Co-Director)                                         
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy                     
shobita
Phone:734-764-8075
Office: 4202 Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
E-mail: shobita at umich edu
 

Shobita Parthasarathy is interested in the comparative and international politics of scientific and technological development. Her new book, Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care, compares the development of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain. She is now working on projects exploring the mechanisms of public participation in national and international patent laws covering genetics and biotechnology, and the role of multinational corporations in shaping science, ethics, and governance in the area of stem cell research. Dr. Parthasarathy will be a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the upcoming 2007-2008 academic year.

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James J. Duderstadt  (Co-Director)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 
duderstadt
Phone:734-647-7300
Office: Millenium Project
2281 Bonisteel Blvd.
2001 Duderstadt Center
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2094
E-mail: jjd at umich edu

As former chair of the National Science Board and the Committee on  Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), I remain very actively  involved in science policy matters with the National Academies; federal agencies  including NSF, DOE, DOD, DEd, and NASA, and OSTP; and through various higher education organizations.

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Paul Erickson  (The  Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 

Fall 2008: Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, History and Science in Society Program
paul erickson
Phone:734-615-6943
Office: Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Room 4207
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
E-mail: perckson at umich edu

Paul Erickson is interested in studying the incorporation of scientific knowledge into policymaking via models, scenarios, and risk analyses.  At the Ford School, Paul will teach courses on science and technology policy analysis and global environmental governance.  

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Dan Plafcan  (The  Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 


Fall 2008: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Science, Technology and Society 
dan plafcan
Phone:734-615-6945
Office: Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Room 4211
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
E-mail: dplafcan at umich edu

Dan studies interdependencies among transnational technological development, international affairs, and the creation of knowledge. He also investigates the implications of these interdependencies for state power and foreign policy. Currently, he is writing a book that examines international politics in the construction of a U.S.-Japan satellite remote-sensing system and how that system does and does not shape science used in global environmental policymaking. His second project comparatively analyzes Japan's and China's petroleum production systems in Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to better understand how different kinds of infrastructural technologies used in foreign direct investment shape international politics.

 

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Bonnie Roberts  (Program Administrator)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 
bonnie
Phone:734-615-6942
Office: Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Room 4204
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
E-mail: fischerb at umich edu

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Monamie Bhadra (Web Developer)
Arizona State University, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes 
 
Phone:734-615-6942
Office: Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
Arizona State University
Social Sciences Building #210
Tempe, AZ 85287-4401
E-mail: monamie.bhadra at asu edu

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Steering Committee

Paul N. Edwards  
School of Information 
pauledwards
Phone: 734-647-7300
Office: School of Information, University of Michigan, 1085 South University Ave, 3078 West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
E-mail: pne at umich edu
 

Research interests: My interests lie in the general area of history and politics of information
infrastructures, especially computer networks and global monitoring systems. My most
recent work addresses the history and reliability of the global weather and climate data
network. I am presently (2006) organizing a major workshop on using lessons from history
and sociology of infrastructures in the desing of new cyberinfrastructures for the
sciences.

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Joel Howell
Medical School
joelhowell
Phone:734-647-4844
Office: RWJ Clinical Scholars Program
6312 Med Sci 1, Box 0604
1150 W. Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
E-mail: jhowell at umich.edu
 

Joel Howell is a historian and a practicing internist.  His major
research agenda is to understand why people in Western Europe and the US started to believe in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century that science and technology were useful for patient care.

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Steven J. Jackson 
School of Information
steven jackson
Phone: 734-764-8058
Office: School of Information, University of Michigan, 1085 South University Ave, 301D West Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107.
E-mail: sjackso at umich.edu

Steven Jackson teaches and conducts research in the areas of science, technology, and information policy.  Current research interests include the politics of data and models in contested areas of public (especially water) policy; information technology, international development, and the harmonization of global information policy regimes; and the role of information infrastructure (advanced and otherwise) in supporting scientific practice and collaboration.

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Paula M. Lantz  
School of Public Health
plantz
Phone:734-763-9902
Office: 109 S. Observatory
M3174 SPH II
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
E-mail: plantz at umich.edu
 

Dr. Lantz is interested in public health policies related to clinical preventive services and to social disparities in health.  This includes research that focuses on access to and utilization of new and emerging technologies related to disease prevention and early detection. Current projects focus on new technologies and treatments related to breast and cervical cancer prevention and control, including the development of policies and guidelines related to HPV vaccination and breast cancer screening/treatment.

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Homer A. Neal  
Physics
homerneal Phone:734-764-4375
Office:University of Michigan
2209 Randall Laboratory
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040
E-mail: haneal at umich edu
 

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Edward A. Parson
Law School
parson
Phone:734-647-7300
Office: University of Michigan Law School, 625 South State Street;
432 Hutchins Hall; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
E-mail: parson at umich edu
 

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Henry Pollack 
Geological Sciences 
henry
Phone: 734-763-0084
Office: Dept of Geological Sciences
2534 CC Little Bldg
1100 North University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005
E-mail: hpollack at umich edu
 

Professor Pollack's current book, Uncertain Science...Uncertain World, discusses how the inability to find absolute certainty in science stifles innovation and progress in science policy.

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Barry Rabe 
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 
barry rabe
Phone: 734-615-9596
Office: Oakland St. Annex, 712 Oakland, #358
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3021
E-mail: brabe at umich edu
 

Rabe is a political scientist who examines subnational involvement in environmental policy and intergovernmental relations in the United States and other federal systems of government.   His most recent work explores the evolving role of American states and Canadian provinces in climate policy development.  Recent publications include STATEHOUSE AND GREENHOUSE (Brookings Institution Press, 2004), which won the Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published on environmental politics and policy in the past three years.  In 2006, he became the first social scientist to win a Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Carl P. Simon  
Gerald R. Ford of Public Policy 
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Mathematics Department 
carl simon
Phone:734-763-3074
Office: University of Michigan
4485C Randall Laboratory
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040
E-mail: cpsimon at umich edu

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Arvids Ziedonis 
Ross School of Business
ArvidsZ
Phone:734-763-4612
Office: Ross School of Business
701 Tappan Street
Room E4606
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
E-mail: azied at umich edu
 

Prof. Ziedonis' research interests include technology strategy, the economics of innovation, and technology policy.  His current research is centered on understanding the strategic factors that influence the acquisition and commercialization of new technologies by firms, how institutional factors influence innovation, and the empirical measurement of innovative activity.

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