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Jessica Tucker Visiting Scholar Office: Engineering 220 Office Phone: 631-632-4623 Email:

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Jessica Tucker is a postdoctoral researcher supported by a fellowship from the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education. She finished her doctorate in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2006. Her dissertation was entitled “Novel Extracellular Matrix Mimics: Applications in Drug Delivery and Protein-Receptor Binding.”

Her research at Stony Brook focuses on the evaluation of efforts to incorporate ethics and social responsibility into undergraduate engineering curricula. Through this work, she hopes to determine whether a greater focus on social issues attracts and keeps more women and underrepresented minorities in the engineering field. Her interest in science and technology ethics began in earnest while in graduate school, where she first took and then co-designed and co-taught a course in ethics in science and technology in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. In the course, she and her colleagues focused on investigating a new ethics for biotechnology.

Before entering graduate school, Jessica worked for two years as a research assistant at Glaxo Wellcome. She graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science and Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. After her position at Stony Brook, she hopes to continue her interdisciplinary work in engineering education, bioethics, and/or science policy.