Professors: Philip Ammirato (Biological Sciences), Tim Halpin-Healy (Physics), Peter Juviler (Political Science), Richard Pious (Political Science), Randall Balmer (Religon)
Associate Professors: Brian Morton (Biological Sciences), Rajiv Sethi (Economics)
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
As part of the College's mission to prepare scientists, policy-makers, and an educated citizenry for the moral challenges presented by future scientific advances, Barnard offers a unique collection of courses focusing on issues at the frequently volatile intersection point where science, public policy, and societal concerns collide. These courses are interdisciplinary in nature, team-taught by Barnard faculty from a variety of departments, and held in seminar format with limited enrollments, typically juniors and seniors. Recent topics concern ecological vs. financial imperatives in developing Third-World biodiversity, manipulation of the human genome, privacy issues and ethical dilemmas arising from genetic testing, misguided eugenics programs and race science, the Manhattan Project, as well as the Cold War build-up of nuclear arsenals in the United States and former Soviet Union.
Contact Philip Ammirato (Biological Sciences), Tim Halpin-Healy (Physics), Peter Juviler (Political Science), Richard Pious (Political Science), Randall Balmer (Religon), Brian Morton (Biological Sciences), or Rajiv Sethi (Economics) for more information.