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| Paul B. Thompson holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and
Community Ethics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He
formerly held positions in philosophy at Texas A&M University and Purdue
University. His research has centered on ethical and philosophical questions
associated with agriculture and food, and especially concerning the guidance
and development of agricultural technoscience. This research focus has led him
to undertake a series of projects on the application of recombinant DNA
techniques to agricultural crops and food animals. Thompson published the first
booklength philosophical treatment of agricultural biotechnology in 1997, and
has traveled the world speaking on the subject, delivering invited addresses in
Egypt, Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, Israel and Jamaica, as well as a number of
European countries. In addition to philosophical outlets, his work on
biotechnology has appeared in technical journals including Plant Physiology,
The Journal of Animal Science, Bioscience, and Cahiers d’Economie et Sociologie
Rurales. He serves on the United States National Research Council’s Agricultural
Biotechnology Advisory Council and on the Science and Industry Advisory
Committee for Genome Canada. Thompson’s new work focuses on nanotechnology in
the agrifood system. |
W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics
Michigan State University
526 S. Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-355-5079
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| Dr. Lawrence Busch is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology
and Director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State
University. He is coauthor or coeditor of a number of books including Plants,
Power, and Profit: Social, Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies
(Blackwell, 1991); From Columbus to Conagra: The Globalization of Agriculture
(Kansas, 1994); and Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global
Context (Nebraska, 1995) and most recently, The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State,
and Market (Aldine deGruyter, 2000) as well as more than 100 other publications.
He is past president of the Rural Sociological Society, past president of the
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He recently was named Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite
Agricole by the French government. Dr. Busch has worked in France, Norway, Kenya,
Brazil, India, and a number of other nations on issues
related to food and agriculture. He has been long been a consultant to the International
Service for National Agricultural Research and the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations. He has written and spoken on a variety of social, political, and
economic issues associated with food standards, both here and abroad. Dr. Busch's
interests include food and agricultural standards food safety policy, biotechnology
policy, agricultural science and technology policy, higher education in agriculture,
and public participation in the policy process. |
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
422 Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
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John R. Lloyd is a University Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and he has received the Melville Medal and the Heat Transfer Memorial Award
from ASME International. He currently serves as Governor of ASME International. He was
awarded the degree Doctor of Technical Science Honorus Causa by the Russian Academy of
Sciences, and was recently elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He is
an editor of several international technical journals. He has received teaching awards
including the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. His current areas of research
interest include the development of MEMS sensors for application to bio and other
engineering systems. Hi research program includes the emerging areas of energy transport
at the micro and nano length scales, which will have application in developing such
diverse areas as thermal energy transport in Agrifood systems, thermoelectric devices,
fuel cells, and energy efficiency in phase change heat transport in structured, micro and
nano thin film coatings on particles such as seeds and agri-elements. |
University Distinguished Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University
3415 Engineering Bldg.
517-353-9717
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Susan Selke is a Professor in the School of Packaging at Michigan State
University. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from
Michigan State. Courses she teaches include plastics packaging, packaging
materials, packaging and the environment, stability and recycling of packaging
materials, and analytical solutions to packaging design. Her research interests
include plastics recycling, biodegradable plastics, biobased plastics, composites
of plastics with natural fibers, lifecycle assessment, nanotechnology and
packaging, mass transfer characteristics of plastics, and other topics. She
has authored or coauthored several books on packaging materials and on
packaging and environmental issues, as well as over 150 articles and book
chapters. |
Professor
School of Packaging
Michigan State University
130 Packaging Bldg.
East Lansing, MI 48824
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John V. Stone is a Faculty Research Associate at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards (IFAS) at Michigan State University. He holds a Ph.D. and an MA in Applied Anthropology, both from the University of South Florida, and a BA in Anthropology from Michigan State. John assists with numerous activities at IFAS, including grant writing, research, and management,
and graduate course development and teaching. His primary research interests are in the
participatory dimensions of environmental management and agrifood standards development and
implementation, and particularly ethnographic methodological applications to promote more
equitable social access in those processes. John has managed numerous social research projects,
authored more than 20 scientific publications and technical reports, and made more than 35
presentations to professional societies and associations. He co-founded the Risk Assessment and
Policy Association and holds membership in the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), the American Anthropoligical Association, and the International Associations for Public Participation and Impact Assessment, respectively. John received the EPA/SfAA Environmental Anthropology Fellowship in 1999, and served as the inaugural
Fellow to the Great Lakes Commission Fellowship Program. |
Applied Anthropologist
IFAS
Michigan State University
425-A Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Ph: 517-355-2384
fax: 517-432-4023
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Dr. Kenneth David, Ph.D., M.B.A. is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Trans-cultural
Management at Michigan State University (USA). He received his B.A. (Honors) at Wesleyan
University of Connecticut in 1965, his M.A. and Ph.D. Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University
of Chicago in 1968 & 1972, and his M.B.A. in International Business and Business Policy at
Michigan State University in 1981. He has done Organizational Anthropology research in
France, Holland, India, South Korea, Sri Lanka and the United States, focusing first on
country-company relationships and later on inter-organizational relationships (acquisitions,
joint ventures, long-term consulting relationships, and strategic alliances).
His theoretical direction is best described as boundary-spanning project studies: an
anthropological reconsideration of management and communications studies. The most recent
boundary-spanning research deals with cultural and power issues that affect project activities.
He is co-PI on an NSF sponsored grant studying geographically-dispersed and culturally disparate
teams of engineers doing design work. This is a tri-discipline (Anthropology, Engineering,
Telecommunication), six-country (ChinaMexico, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, United States) research
consortium. This research will be highly useful in dealing with Nanotechnology projects that are
designed, implemented, and evaluated by organizations from different locales and cultures.
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Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Michigan State University
332 Baker Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-5079
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B. James Deaton, Assistant Professor
Department of Business and Agricultural Economics, Guelph CA.; Ph.D., Michigan State
University. M.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, B.A. University of Missouri, Columbia.
My research examines environmental and natural resource issues. I am particularly interested
in the manner in which laws, rules, and standards influence environmental quality, natural
resource use, and economic development. Additional research examines: the relationship between
different forms of private property and economic development; public support for various
criteria used to preserve farmland; and, the social construction of production externalities
in agriculture. Prior to my Ph.D. training I worked on economic development projects in
Lesotho (Southern Africa) and the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky. |
Agricultural Economist
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON NIG 2W1, Canada
519-824-4120 x 52765. |
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Thomas Dietz holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis, and a
Bachelor of General Studies from Kent State University. He is a National Associate of the
National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, a member of the Cosmos Club, and has been awarded the Distinguished Contribution
Award of the American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society.
He currently chairs the U.S. National Research Council Committee on the Human Dimensions of
Global Change, and the Panel on Public Participation on Environmental Assessment and Decision
Making. He also serves as Secretary of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is Past-President of the Society
for Human Ecology. He has co-authored or co-edited six books and more than 80 papers and book
chapters. His current research examines the human driving forces of environmental change,
environmental values and the interplay between science and democracy in environmental issues.
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Director
Environmental Science & Policy
274 Giltner Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Ph: 517-432-8296
Fax: 517-432-8830
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