/College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Department of Technology, AI and Society

Emeritus Faculty

Lester Paldy

Distinguished Service Professor

M.S., Hofstra University, Global issues; Lester Paldy holds appointments as Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in this department and the Department of Pathology and is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. He teaches the global issues course in the University Honors College and his current work focuses on the requirement for informed consent of human subjects participating in medical research. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His government service includes appointments to U.S. Department of State delegations negotiating nuclear weapon agreements in Geneva and UN and service as a Marine officer in Korea.

Wolf Schäfer

Chair Emeritus and John S. Toll Professor

Previous Chair from 2018 to 2022; Professor Schäfer received his higher education in Marburg, Bonn, King's College London, Munich, and Bremen; he earned an MA in History, International Politics, and Philosophy and a PhD in History of Science and Technology and Social History. Resarch in technology, and society (STS); big technoscience projects; automotive ethics; geography and cartography; energy transitions and population growth; global history and global studies.