Last summer, we announced the 2015 death of Athanasios (Thanasi) Moulakis, the program’s founding director. If you were here in the Program’s first decade or so, you will remember Thanasi’s vibrant and dynamic personality. He taught many sections of its original seminars as well as History of Technology and Engineering Ethics. His 4000-level seminars often included “field trips” to the museums and jazz clubs of great American cities; he also taught a summer course in Florence, Italy. If you would like to make a contribution in memory of Thanasi, please click here and select Yes under “Is this gift in memory or in honor of someone?”
Wayne Ambler, the program’s second director, retired last year on June 1. He is now enjoying a leisurely combination of reading, translating and writing -- with no papers to grade. You might have had Wayne as a teacher in HUEN 1010 and 3100, or in Engineering, Science and Society, a course he designed and developed. His greatest fame, though, comes from his Culture Wars in Rome, a Maymester course taught in the Eternal City itself. If you would like to make a contribution in honor of Wayne, please click here and select Yes under “Is this gift in memory or in honor of someone?”