We are pleased to introduce Eruditio, the electronic journal of the World Academy of Art & Science. The vision of the Journal complements and enhances the World Academy's focus on global perspectives in the generation of knowledge from all fields of legitimate inquiry. The Journal also mirrors the World Academy's specific focus and mandate which is to consider the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge in the broadest sense.
Segerstrale, UllicaProfessor of Sociology, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fellow, WAAS |
Professor of Sociology, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fellow, WAAS
Ullica Segerstrale is Professor of Sociology at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. She is known for her work in Sociology and Social Psychology of Science, focusing on science, technology and values, "nature-nurture" controversies, and research ethics. She is the author of a number of articles and book chapters and four books. Her most recent book is Nature's Oracle (2013), a study of W.D. (Bill) Hamilton ("Darwin of the 20th century"), a scientist of extraordinary, life-long scientific creativity. She is the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fellow of WAAS, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a foreign member of the Finnish Society for Science and Letters.