Featured Participants

Science Communication

Keynote Speakers

Asheley R. Landrum, Psychologist and Assistant Professor specializing in strategic science communication at Texas Tech University

Elissa Yancey, Co-founder of A Picture’s Worth

Working Group Leaders

Lucas Dunlap, Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati

Collin Lucken, Philosophy Graduate Student at the University of Cincinnati

Invited Discussants

Kevin Elliott, Professor in the Lyman Briggs College, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University

Dan Hicks, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Data Scientist, and Science Policy Researcher at the University of California Merced

Science Education

Keynote Speakers

Michael Clough, Professor of Science Education, Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University

Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative (GCSC)

  • Ted Folwer (Professor Emeritus, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Service; Core Leadership Team, GCSC)
  • Uday Sheth (R&D Vice President, Procter & Gamble, Retired; Advisory Board (GCSC)
  • Kathy Wright (Principal, Hughes STEM High School, Cincinnati Public Schools; Advisory Board, GCSC)
  • Sean Kelley (Director of Talent Pipeline Initiative at STEM Career Development Partnership Core Leadership Team, GCSC)

Working Group Leaders

Melissa Jacquart, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department and the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati

Andrew Evans, Philosophy Graduate Student at the University of Cincinnati

Invited Discussants

Sarah Goering, Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Program on Ethics at the University of Washington

Julia Bursten, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Kentucky

Informal Science Education

Keynote Speakers

Rae Ostman, Associate Research Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University

Brenda Hunda, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum Center

Brian Pollock, Science Educator and Program Developer at the Cincinnati Museum Center

Working Group Leaders

Angela Potochnik, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati

Elmo Feiten, Philosophy Graduate Student at the University of Cincinnati

Invited Discussants

Kristen Intemann, Professor of Ethics, Philosophy of Science, and Feminist Philosophy at Montana State University

Joyce Havstad, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Utah

Scientific Work with Communities

Keynote Speakers

Abby Kinchy, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Cincinnati Project (TCP)

  • Shaunak Sastry, TCP Co-Director, Associate Professor, in the Department of Communications at the University of Cincinnati

Working Group Leaders

Zvi Biener, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati

Eduardo J. Martinez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati

Amanda Corris, Postdoctoral Associate for the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota 

Invited Discussants

Alison Wylie, Canada Research Chair (Tier I) Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia

Karen Kovaka, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech