The Lunchtime Lecture Series
"Global
Responsibilities, NSF, and Science and Society"
Rachelle Hollander, Senior Science Adviser, Directorate
for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), National Science Foundation
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
12:00 - 1:15, Sub II Back Ballroom
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice-President for Research.
Dr. Hollander's lecture will explore the connections between the National
Science Foundation, Science and Society and responsibilities based on her own
experience. By proposing
ways of understanding
professional and global responsibilities in the context of organizations, she
will discuss ways of thinking about NSF in relation to other Federal
agencies and how this view of responsibilities plays out in agency reactions to
political priorities. Dr. Hollander will
then offer an elaboration of NSF priority areas in relation to
issues of responsibilities.
Biographical Note:
Dr. Hollander joined the National Science Foundation in 1976. Currently she is Senior Advisor in the
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), an appointment
that began in the summer of 2004. For
the prior nine months, she was Senior Science Advisor in the Division of Social
and Economic Sciences (SES), SBE. Until Fall 2003, she coordinated a group of four programs in the
SES Division and directed the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and
Technology (SDEST) program. Her assignments since becoming Advisor in the
Directorate include helping to develop and currently chairing the Human and
Social Dynamics Foundation-wide priority area, and coordinating SBE involvement
with the Nanosca! le Science
and Engineering program. She initiated
the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program, which involves five
NSF directorates, and helped to develop the new Science and Society program,
which combines SDEST and the Science and Technology Studies program in
SES. Hollander received her doctorate in
philosophy in 1979 from the