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Board of Directors
Co-Vice
President - Bioethics
Lynn Pasquerella, Ph. D.
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Philosophy Department – Chafee Building
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Ph: 401.874.2223 Fax:
Lynn Pasquerella is a Professor
of Philosophy and recent Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University
of Rhode Island. In addition, She is a Fellow in the John Hazen White
Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service and was a professor of medical
ethics for two years, from 1993-95, in the Brown University Medical School's
Affinity Group Program.
Dr. Pasquerella is a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College
(A.B., 1980) and Brown University (Ph.D., 1985). She is a past recipient
of the University of Rhode Island's Teaching Excellence Award and has
Published extensively in the areas of theoretical and applied ethics,
Public policy, medical ethics, and the philosophy of law.
In 1998, Professor Pasquerella was honored by Change Magazine and the
American Association of Higher Education as one of forty "Young Leaders
of the Academy."
Her
leadership includes service on several departmental, college, and university
committees, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation
team, membership on Day Kimball Hospital's Ethics Committee and Institutional
Review Board, Membership on the advisory board for the Women's Adult Correctional
Facility in Rhode Island, chair of Uri's IRB, and service as President
of the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Pasquerella is a skilled facilitator and has conducted Numerous
workshops and community conversations on ethics and public Administration,
critical thinking, instructional development, Multiculturalism, and medical
and legal ethics. She has received Funding at the national level through
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Bar Association,
and the Department of Energy.
Dr. Pasquerella lives with her husband John Kuchle, who is a biologist
and photographer, and their eleven-year-old twin sons, Pierce and Spencer,
in Woodstock, Connecticut.
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