Arri Eisen

I am the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Teaching Professor in Science & Society and Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Biology, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Center for Ethics at Emory University, where I have taught for 32 years. My scholarship is in biochemistry, molecular biology, epigenetics and genetics, pedagogy, research ethics, and cross-cultural science education. I am one of the founders and leaders of the longest-running and largest biomedical postdoctoral program in the US--Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching--funded by the NIH and a partnership among Emory and the historically black colleges Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta, and Morehouse School of Medicine. I am also a founder and leader of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, which over the last 15 years has established a modern science and pedagogy curriculum for the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns living in exile in India.