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BaoTran Truong was an undergraduate student major in Technological System Management at SUNYKorea - Department of Technology and Society. Her research was about 3D Printing and implications in Vietnam
Elina is an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University, where she studies chemical and biomolecular engineering. She conducts research in the Wang Nano Energy Lab, fabricating iron-oxide nanoparticles. Her interests lie in green energy, and the societal impact science carries
Emily Heyward was an undergraduate student at Stony Brook University and earned a B.S. in Technological Systems Management in May 2017. As a volunteer research student, she assisted in organizing the university's first Disability Mentoring Day that provided an atmosphere for discussing ways to improve accessibility on campus.
Fiza Khader is a rising senior at NYU. She is pursuing a B.S in Science and Technology Studies with minors in Public Health and Biomolecular Science. She is interested in making a career in dentistry and is currently working with Dr. Woodson in the Department of Technology and Society, in researching the application of Nanotechnology for Health, Energy, and the Environment
Jacky Xie was a Biomedical Engineering undergraduate student at Stony Brook University. He was awarded a summer research fellowship through the SUNY STEM Research Passport Program. Jacky worked as a research student at Stony Brook University in the Department of Technology and Society.
Jashey Matheson is a rising senior at SUNY Old Westbury. She is currently pursuing her undergrad degree in Public Health with a minor in marketing. Currently, Jashey is working with Dr. Woodson to research the Broader Impacts being created through NSF Nanotechnology grants.
Jordan Armstead is an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is interested in international development and currently works with Dr. Thomas Woodson on the social and economic impacts of nanotechnology on communities around the world.
Julia Torres Alcantara was an Industrial Engineering undergraduate student at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro. She is a grantee of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program and studied Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. Julia worked as a researcher student at Stony Brook University in the Department of Technology and Society with Dr. Thomas Woodson.
Justin Dollman researches, teaches, and studies in the political science department at Stony Brook University. In his research he aims to use the methods of machine learning and Bayesian inference to answer questions about political behavior that are less tractable using lab experiments, surveys, and traditional observational methods
Kristal Estrella is an undergraduate student at Barnard College of Columbia University pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Policy with hopes to pursue a career in Sustainable Development and Public Health. She is currently working with Doctor Woodson in the Department of Technology and Society, in researching and assessing the societal impacts of Nanotechnology in the United States.
Makenzie Stewart is a rising senior at Stony Brook University. She is pursuing a B.S. in Psychology with concentrations in physics and chemistry, minoring in Business and Health Medicine in Society. She is interested in increasing diversity within medicine and is currently working with Dr. Thomas Woodson on inequality in nanomedicine.
Nataliia Telendii is pursuing her PhD degree in Technology, Policy and Innovation at Stony Brook University, Department of Technology and Society. She has received a Master's degree in Economics in Ukraine. Nataliia's major research interests lay in the area of applications of Technologies and Innovations in Education.
Sophia Boutilier is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University. Her research conceptualizes solidarity from a position of privilege, investigating how privileged actors confront their complicity with oppression. This model foregrounds how emotions motivate behaviors and can - but do not necessarily - spur critical reflection. Her current project applies the model to international development workers, documenting how they navigate dilemmas of solidarity in a global context. Sophia also researches sexual violence in collaboration with Shift: the Project to End Domestic Violence at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook
Thomas S. Woodson is an associate professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University. He investigates the effects of technology on inequality throughout the world and the causes/consequences of inclusive innovation. For the past several years he has studied the effectiveness of scientific funding to have broader impact, and ways to improve diversity in STEM fields.
He is currently the director of the $4 million State University of New York Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (SUNY LSAMP) and the $1 million S-STEM Scholarship Academic and Social STEM Excellence for Transfer Students (ASSETS) programs. These NSF sponsored programs help low-income, and underrepresented minority students persist and succeed in STEM majors and careers.
Dr. Woodson received his B.S.E in electrical engineering from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Public Policy for the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
Before arriving at Georgia Tech, Thomas lived in Africa. For 18 months Thomas worked with college students, refugees and orphans in South Africa with The Impact Movement and Cru. Then, he worked in Burkina Faso as a visiting research fellow at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE). At 2iE, he designed, built and tested an earth air heat exchanger for rural West Africa villages.
Thomas and his family reside in Centereach, NY although he was born and raised in Texas. In his spare time, Thomas attends and volunteers at his local church ( Three Village Church), and competes in triathlons. His current goal is to complete a full Ironman Triathlon.
Areas of Expertise
Science policy, policy analysis, engineering education, international development
Victor was a mechanical engineering undergraduate from the University of Central Florida where he conducted nanotechnology research in regards the development two-dimensional transistors using the property of Van der Waals heterostructures. His interest now is in merging the sciences of nanotechnology with the potential of its implications on society
Yibo Zhang was a materials science and engineering graduate student at Stony Brook University. His research was about a dirt repelling coating on the solar panel.