NTPA 2019 Closing Remarks

The NTPA executive committee would like to thank everyone who made this conference such a success. We thank our keynote speakers, Dr. Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico) and Dr. Janae Sholtz (Alvernia University) for their excellent and thought-provoking presentations. We especially thank the University of Texas, Dallas for hosting the conference. Below are those to whom we owe special thanks for their hard work and financial support, without which such an outstanding conference would not have occurred.

  • University of Texas, Dallas (financial support and hosting the conference). Special thanks to Andy Amato for coordinating the conference, Matthew J. Brown and the Center for Values in Science, Medicine, and Technology and Dean Kratz for financial support, the student volunteers of the UTD philosophy club for helping with registration and other duties, and Charles Bambach, NTPA president, for a wonderful presidential address.
  • University of Dallas, especially Provost J. J. Stanford and the Dean of the Braniff Graduate School, Dr. Josh Parens for their financial support.
  • Dale Wilkerson (NTPA co-secretary)
  • Mike Vendsel (NTPA treasurer)