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Rosalyn W. Berne (
née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...
Wiggins) is an American scholar, author, and the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics at the
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...
. Her research focuses on
ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...
in
engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...
,
science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
,
nanotechnologies Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propert ...
and
engineering education Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education ( Dip.Eng.)and (B.Eng.) or ( M.Eng.), and any advanced education and specializations th ...
. She currently serves as the director of the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science.


Biography


Early life

Rosalyn W. Berne was born in
New York State New York, also called New York State, is a state in the northeastern United States. Bordered by New England to the east, Canada to the north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, its territory extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and ...
, then moved with her parents to
Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...
where she spent her childhood in a
Quaker Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers ...
-founded residential community. Her father was Roland A. Wiggins.


Education

After receiving primary education at Greene Street Friends School, her family moved to Amherst,
Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
, where she attended Amherst Regional High School. She then initiated studies at what was then
Hampton Institute Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missiona ...
, before graduating with a B.A. and M.A. in
Communication Studies Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in differ ...
, as well as a PhD in
Religious Studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...
and
Bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...
, all from the
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...
.


Works

Berne's research focuses on the intersections of emerging technologies, science, fiction, and myth, as well as the connections between the human and non-human worlds. Her research and writing interests include engineering ethics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, and engineering education ethics. As an author, she has published academic and non-academic books on topics such as engineering ethics,
science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...
as well as
animal communication Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers. Information may be sent int ...
, notably relating to the equine world.


Awards and honors

In 2021, Berne was appointed Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, at the University of Virginia. In 2018 and 2020, she was appointed Principal Investigator on research awards made to the National Academy of Engineering from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is ...
for her work related to the Online Ethics Center. In 2023, she received a NSF grant renewable to expand the Online Ethics Center to a community of practice. In 2002, Berne was awarded a Career Award: ''Ethics and Belief Inside the Development of Nanotechnologies'' by the American
NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party * National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political g ...
. She has also received awards for her books ''Waking to Beauty'' and ''When the Horses Whisper''.


Publications


Books


Academic works

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Non-academic works

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Peer reviewed articles

* Berne, R.W. (2003, Spring). Human-Machine co-evolution: Recognizing mythology in visions of new technology. Technology and Society Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 34–39. * Berne, R.W. (2003, April). Ethics, technology, and the future: An intergenerational experience in engineering education. Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. Vol. 23, pp. 88 – 94. * Berne, R.W. (2004). Tiny ethics for big challenges - Calling for an ethics of nanoscale science and technology. IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine. 20(3): 10–17, May–June, pp. 10–17 * Berne, R.W. (2004, October). Toward the conscientious development of ethical nanotechnology. Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics. Vol. 10, No. 4, pp 627–638. * Berne, R.W. and Raviv, D. (2004, April). The Eight-Dimensional Methodology for innovative thinking about the case and ethics of the Mount Graham Large Binocular Telescope Project. Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics. (Special Issue: Proceedings of the Conference, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering and Technology.) Vol. 10, No. 2. pp. 235–242.


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