Selective awards, grants, and professional activities

Abbot Payson Usher Prize (1974), Society for the History of Technology, best work
published by Technology and Culture in the preceding three years, for “Bibliography of the
Philosophy of Technology” (1973).

​Contract from a National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation
funded project, to survey work in the philosophy, history, and sociology of science,
technology, and medicine, for a state-of-the-field article on the philosophy of technology,
1976-1977.

National Science Foundation (History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program)
and National Endowment for the Humanities (Research Resources Program), grant for
“Bibliography of the Philosophy of Technology: 1975-1978,” 1978-1980. (PI)

President, Society for Philosophy and Technology, 1980-1982. Member, Board of Directors,
1980-1985. Co-editor, Society for Philosophy and Technology Newsletter, 1982-1984.

American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1981.

Kentucky Humanities Council, grant for research and lectures on “Intentional Communities in
Central Kentucky,” 1981-1982. (PI)

Member, Columbia University Seminar on the History and Philosophy of Science,
1982-1987.

Organized international conference on “Information Technology and Computers in Theory
and Practice,” New York, Sept. 3-7, 1983, with support by grants from Franklin J. Matchette
Foundation and Goethe House New York.

Exxon Education Foundation, grant for course development in philosophy and technology
studies, 1984-1985. (PI)

Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding and Dedicated Service from the Polytechnic
University Student Council, 1985.

J.M. Foundation challenge grant, for Philosophy & Technology Studies Center development,
1986-1987. (PI)

Exxon Education Foundation, grant for Philosophy & Technology Studies Center
development, 1986-1987. (PI)

Co-organized international conference on “Phenomenology and Technology,” New York,
October 2-4, 1986, with support by grant from Goethe House New York.

Study Group on Science and World Stability, New York Academy of Sciences, 1986-1987.

Co-program chair, Second National Science-Technology-Society Conference, Washington,
DC, February 6-8, 1987.

IBM Corporation (Public Affairs Programs), grant for workshop on computer ethics, spring
1988. (PI)

New York Council on the Humanities, grant to support a bicentenniel celebration on the
constitution titled “Politiks and Culture,” 1987. (PI)

Advisory Committee, National Network for Science, Technology & Society Education (NSF-
funded program directed by the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania
State University), 1987-1990.

National Science Foundation (Ethics and Values Studies Program), grant for research on
“Engineering Ethics Outside the United States,” 1988-1989. (PI)

MacArthur Foundation, grant to organize (with the New York Academy of Sciences) a
conference on “Ethical Issues Associated with the Military Support of Science and
Technology,” 1988-1989. (PI)

National Endowment for the Humanities (Higher Education, Institutes), grant to co-direct an
NEH Summer Institute on “Rethinking Technology: Philosophical Reflections on Technology
since World War II,” 1993-1994. (PI)

National Science Foundation (Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Development
Program), grant to create team-taught interdisciplinary course on “Global Warming, Energy,
and Biodiversity,” 1993-1994. (PI)

Member, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1994-2000.
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), grant for research on
philosophy and technology at Tilburg University, Twente University, and Delft Technological
University, March-April 1998.

Pennsylvania State University Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching, Spring 1998.

National Science Foundation (Earth Sciences), grant to organize workshop on “Future
Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences: Philosophical Perspectives,” January-
December 1999. (PI)

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education grant, “Interdisciplinary/International
Curriculum on Energy and the Environment: Innovative Technologies,” promoting
collaborative teaching and research between U.S. and European universities, Summer 2001-
2005. (PI)

National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for workshop and conference on “New
Directions in the Earth Sciences and the Humanities: Practicing Wide Interdisciplinarity,”
January-December 2002. (Co-PI)

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant, “Serving Humanity: Engineers Improving the
World through Regional, National, and International Community Service,” 2002-2008. (Co-PI)

National Science Foundation grant, “Enhancing Engineering Responsibility with
Humanitarian Ethics: Theory and Practice of Humanitarian Ethics in Graduate Engineering
Education,” August 2005-2009. (Co-PI)

National Science Foundation grant, “New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, and Katrina:
Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future,” 2005. (Co-PI)

International World Technology Network (WTN) award for Ethics, 2006. Presented at the
WTN Summit in San Francisco. (Post award activities included an interview by Irene McGee
on her “No One’s Listening” radio program.) Fellow of the World Technology Network.

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (2005), selected reviews, all highly favorable:
— Professional Ethics Report, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Summer 2005).
— Ken Black. Booklist (Dec. 2005).
— J.A. Adams-Volpe. Choice, vol. 43, no. 6 (Feb. 2006), p. 989. “Summing Up: Essential.
Academic libraries and large public libraries, all levels.”
— John Lawrence. Web review (Feb. 2006).
— Reference Reviews (March 2006).
— Cited by the New York Public Library (the largest public library in the U.S. outside of the
Library of Congress) for special recognition and designated “Best of Reference” (April, 2006).
— California Bookwatch (April 2006).
— Brian E. Coutts and Cheryl LaGuardia. Library Journal, vol. 131, no. 7 (April 15, 2006), p. 46.
— David M. Fagerstrom. Reference and User Services Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 3 (Spring
2006), pp. 257-258.
— Robert Hauptman. Journal of Information Ethics, vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring 2006), p. 87.
— Erin Moore Daly. Science Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 (2006), pp. 93-95.
— John Weckert, Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 10 (2008), pp. 81-82.

Hosted and co-organized an international conference, “Making Sense of the Broader
Impacts of Science and Technology,” Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, August 5-7,
2007.

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) grant, “Developing an
Interdisciplinary Ethics of Science and Engineering: International Collaboration on Complex
Social Problems,” 2008-2011. (Co-PI)

National Science Foundation (Science of Science and Innovation Program, MOD) grant, “A
Comparative Assessment of Models for Integrating Societal Impacts Concerns into the Peer
Review of Grant Proposals,” 2008-2011. (Co-PI)

National Science Foundation (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship)
grant, “Intelligent Geosystems,” 2009-2014. (Co-PI)

Doctorate honoris causa,Valencian International University, Valencia, Spain, 2010.

Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Research Award, 2011-2012.

Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award, Colorado School of Mines, May 2012.

​Award for Distinguished Service, International Jacques Ellul Society, July 2012.