SciTS 2010 Conference: Panels

Daniel Stokols

Daniel Stokols is Chancellor’s Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Psychology and Social Behavior, and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He is also Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology in the College of Health Sciences at UCI. Dr. Stokols earned his B.A. degree at the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Stokols is past President of the Division of Population and Environmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a Fellow of Divisions 9, 27, 34, and 38 within APA and of the American Psychological Society. He serves as a Section Editor of the American Journal of Health Promotion, a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Environmental Psychology and the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. Dr. Stokols was recipient of the Annual Career Award of the Environmental Design Research Association in 1991, the UC Irvine Lauds and Laurels Faculty Achievement Award and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research in 2003. His recent research has examined contextual factors that influence the success of transdisciplinary research and training programs. Additional areas of Dr. Stokols' research include the design and evaluation of community and worksite health promotion programs, the health and behavioral impacts of environmental stressors such as traffic congestion and overcrowding, and the application of environmental design research to urban planning and facilities design. Dr. Stokols currently serves as Scientific Consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, for the development and evaluation of NCI’s transdisciplinary research and training centers, and as a Team Science Evaluation Consultant for the National Academies of Sciences-Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI).

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Julie Thompson Klein

Julie Thompson Klein, Ph.D., is Professor of Humanities at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan (USA) and an internationally known scholar of the history, theory, and practice of interdisciplinarity. Past president of the Association for Integrative Studies and former editor of the journal Issues in Integrative Studies, she is a member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University and has received several of the University’s highest awards for excellence in teaching and research. She also won the final prize in the Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Foundation's international competition for new research models and received the Kenneth Boulding Award for outstanding scholarship on interdisciplinarity and the Ramamoorthy & Yeh Transdiscipilnary Distinguished Achievement Award. Klein was a Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and has held invited posts in Canada, Japan, Nepal, and New Zealand. In addition, she represented the United States at international symposia on interdisciplinarity in Sweden, Portugal, and France, and has lectured on the topic throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, and in Australia. She also served on a number of national task forces in interdisciplinary and integrative studies and has advised committees of the US National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and National Academies of Sciences. Her authored and edited books include Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (l990), Interdisciplinary Studies Today (1994), Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (1996), Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society (2001), Interdisciplinary Education in K-12 and College (2002), the monograph Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies (1999), Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy (2005), and Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures (2010). She is also Associate Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (2010),is Co-Editor of the University of Michigan Press series Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks, and is currently writing a book on “Mapping Digital Humanities.”

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Stephen M. Fiore

Stephen M. Fiore, Ph.D. is faculty with the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research and Development Center. He maintains a multidisciplinary research interest that incorporates aspects of the cognitive, social, and computational sciences in the investigation of learning and performance in individuals and teams. He is co-Editor of recent volumes on Macrocognition in Teams (2008), Distributed Learning (2007), Team Cognition (2004), and he has co-authored over 100 scholarly publications in the area of learning, memory, and problem solving at the individual and the group level. As Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator he has helped to secure and manage approximately $15 Million in research funding from organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Department of Homeland Security.

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Question and Answer Session

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