CASIRAS
Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science
CASIRAS supports the Zygon Center for Religion and Science (in partnership with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) and Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (in partnership with the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science and the International Society for Science and Religion).
Founded in 1965 by Ralph Wendell Burhoe, winner of the 1980 Templeton Prize, CASIRAS is an independent organization of scientists and theologians incorporated under IRS section 501 (c) (3), section 509 (a) (3).
Board of Directors
President:
Dr. Gayle E. Woloschak
Associate Dean for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Affairs
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Radiology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Vice President:
Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase
Senior Scientist; Senior Education and Communication Specialist
Planetary Science Institute
Treasurer:
Ms. Susan Barreto
Editor of Covalence, the online magazine for The Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology
Secretary:
Dr. Mladen Turk
Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Elmhurst University
Members:
The Rev. Dr. Gordon A. Braatz
Board of Trustees, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Dr. Willem B. Drees
Professor of Philosophy of the Humanities
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Dr. Solomon H. Katz
Director
Krogman Center for Childhood Growth and Development
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Esther Menn
Dean of Academic Affairs; The Ralph W. and Marilyn R. Klein Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Dr. Arthur Petersen
Editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Professor of Science, Technology and Public Policy
University College London
Rev. Dr. Barbara Rossing
Professor of New Testament
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Emeriti
Dr. Philip Hefner
Professor of Systematic Theology, Emeritus; Senior Fellow, Zygon Center for Religion and Science; past editor, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Dr. Karl E. Peters
Professor Emeritus of Religion, past editor, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Rollins College