Ccbb: Dr. Bernard Beitman, Md

Rosalyn W. Berne earned a PhD degree in the field of Religious Studies, with an emphasis in bioethics. She holds an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences where she teaches engineering ethics. As a scholar she has explored the intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth, and the links between the human and non-human worlds. She has two academic books, numerous conference papers and journal articles, and Waiting in the SIlence, (a science fiction novel) published under her name. She has also authored two award-winning books in the body-mind-spirit genre: When the Horses Whisper (2013) and a Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner, Waking to Beauty (2016).