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Cheryl L. Ney

Cheryl L. Ney

Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Summer Science Institute

Capital University

Cheryl L. Ney is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Director of Capital University’s Summer Science Institute. Trained as a DNA biochemist at the University of Chicago, she has focused her scholarship on the teaching and learning of science by women, was a faculty development leader in the NSF-funded Women and Science project in the University of Wisconsin System, and works on rooting science in empathy and sustainable science practice.

Published Articles

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Rooting Science in Empathy: Growing Towards a Sustainable Science Practice for the 21st Century

Cheryl L. Ney

No. 7 · Summer 1999

Ney, a DNA biochemist turned feminist science educator at Capital University, traces her own search for the “grounding” of teaching from Ernest Boyer’s scholarship of teaching through Cathleen Loving’s Scientific Theory Profile, Evelyn Fox-Keller’s critiques of science as “truly masculine philosophy” and her biography of Barbara McClintock (“A Feeling for the Organism”), and Arnold Pacey’s definition of science as a web of technical, organizational, and cultural practice. Drawing on the Dutch Science Shops, the Loka Institute’s community-based research, and academic service learning, she calls for “sustainable science practice” rooted in empathy and asks whether Lutheran institutions have the courage to claim an institutional freedom of vision rather than reduce themselves to preparation for the job market.

Cheryl L. Ney

Published Articles

Rooting Science in Empathy: Growing Towards a Sustainable Science Practice for the 21st Century