We are delighted to announce that Nusrat Chowdhury and Lisa Whitsett have been awarded 2024-25 Marvin and Kathleen Stone Fellowships. Nusrat and Lisa are both doctoral students in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Their research contributes to the role of human values in science, technology, and medicine. Congratulations to Nusrat and Lisa! We are honored that Nusrat and Lisa are 2024-25 Marvin and Kathleen Stone Fellows in the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST).
Nusrat Chowdhury is a Ph.D. candidate in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communications (ATEC) at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her dissertation (to be defended in Fall 2024) examines the politics of Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) discourses in Bangladesh from a feminist post-colonial lens. Chowdhury locates her work at the intersection of feminist theory, post-colonial STS, media studies, women and gender studies, and critical menstruation studies.
Lisa Whitsett is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Ideas at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of technology and AI, philosophy of time, and philosophy of cognitive science. Her dissertation examines the history and philosophy of AI technology in the twentieth century and its social implications.
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The Marvin and Kathleen Stone Scholarship/ Fellowship
The Marvin and Kathleen Stone Scholarship/ Fellowship was established in 2020 by Dr. Marvin Stone (chief emeritus of hematology and oncology at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and Clinical Professor in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology) and his wife Kathleen Stone in 2020 (retired healthcare and nonprofit foundation administration executive). Marvin and Kathy created this endowment to increase the impact of the Center for Values as it relates to how values, culture and humanities interact with medicine and science.
The Center for Values is grateful to Marvin and Kathy Stone for their generous support of interdisciplinary research that addresses socially salient aspects of medicine, science, and technology. Their efforts have been instrumental in establishing the Center for Values as an internationally recognized venue for interdisciplinary research in history and philosophy of science (HPS) and science and technology studies (STS). Thanks to Marvin and Kathy for their support of the Center for Values, the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, and the University of Texas at Dallas.
For more information about the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Scholarships/ Fellowships, click here.