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Biographical Statements
Bruce
Alberts is President of the National Academy of Sciences. He is known
for his work in both biochemistry and molecular biology, and in particular
for his study of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated.
Dr. Alberts graduated from Harvard College and earned a PhD from Harvard
University. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1966 and
after ten years moved to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he became
chair. He is one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of
the Cell, now in its fourth edition and the leading advanced textbook
in this field. His most recent text, Essential Cell Biology (1998),
is intended to present this subject matter to a wider audience. Dr. Alberts
has long been committed to the improvement of science education. While
in San Francisco, he helped to create City Science, an ongoing program
that links UCSF to the improvement of science teaching in San Francisco
elementary schools. He brought this interest to the National Academy,
where he actively promotes new ways of teaching and learning about science.
Thomas
F. Banchoff is Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, where
he has taught since 1967. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University
of Notre Dame and a Master's degree and PhD from the University of California
at Berkeley. He has won a number of teaching awards, including the Mathematical
Association of America's National Award for Distinguished College or University
Teaching of Mathematics, and was selected as Rhode Island Professor of
the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Known
for his pioneering research on the geometry of the fourth and higher dimensions,
Dr. Banchoff is the author of more than eighty research articles and three
books, Beyond the Third Dimension, Linear Algebra Through Geometry,
and Cusps of Gauss Mappings, as well as a new introduction to Flatland.
His 1978 film, "The Hypercube," won the Prix de la Recherche
Fondementale at the Brussels Festival of Scientific and Technical Films.
He is the founding editor of the electronic journal Communications
in Visual Mathematics and past President of the Mathematical Association
of America.
Karen
W. Bauer is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
and Assistant Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning
at the University of Delaware. Dr. Bauer has primary responsibility for
assessment of educational initiatives through the Office of Undergraduate
Studies. She coordinated a multifaceted evaluation of the University of
Delaware's Undergraduate Research Program with funding from a National
Science Foundation Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and
Education (RAIRE) and was Co-Principal Investigator on a second NSF grant
in support of these studies. Dr. Bauer is the editor of Campus Climate:
Understanding the Critical Components for Today's Colleges and Universities.
She holds a Bachelor's degree from East Tennessee State University, a
Master's degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and
a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Marcia
Baxter Magolda is Professor of Educational Leadership in the College
Student Personnel Program at Miami University of Ohio, where she teaches
student development theory and inquiry courses. She holds a Master's degree
and PhD from Ohio State University. Her scholarship addresses the evolution
of epistemological development in college and young adult life, the role
of gender in development, and pedagogy to promote epistemological development.
Her books include Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming
Higher Education to Promote Self-Development, Creating Contexts for Learning
and Self-Authorship: Constructive-Developmental Pedagogy, and Knowing
and Reasoning in College. Dr. Magolda is active in the American Educational
Research Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education,
and the American College Personnel Association. She serves the Board of
Contributors of About Campus. She was inducted into the ACPA Senior
Scholars and was named as one of forty young leaders in academe by Change
magazine.
Ludy
T. Benjamin, Jr. is Professor of Psychology and Educational Psychology
at Texas A&M University. He holds the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair
in Distinguished Teaching and a University Professorship in Undergraduate
Teaching Excellence and is Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology.
Dr. Benjamin has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University
of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian
University. His research today is on the history of American psychology,
focusing on the history of applied psychology and on the public's perceptions
and understanding of psychology. He also publishes on the teaching of
psychology, emphasizing active learning in the classroom and promotion
of research opportunities for undergraduate students. He is a Fellow of
both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological
Society.
Joan
S. Bennett is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Undergraduate
Research Program at the University of Delaware. Dr. Bennett founded the
Undergraduate Research Program in 1980. She was Co-Principal Investigator
with University of Delaware President David Roselle on the university's
National Science Foundation Recognition Award for the Integration of Research
and Education (RAIRE) grant, which recognized the Undergraduate Research
Program and related accomplishments in Problem-Based Learning. She holds
a PhD from Stanford University. Her own research is in Milton studies,
where she has twice been awarded the Hanford Prize for best publication
in the field.
Don
Bialostosky is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
After taking his degrees from the University of Chicago, Dr. Bialostosky
taught at a series of public research universities, including the University
of Utah, the University of Washington, Stony Brook University, and the
University of Toledo. He has published books on William Wordsworth and
written extensively on Mikhail Bakhtin. Liberal education and rhetoric
among the liberal arts are topics that have recurred in his work on both
these authors and exercised him administratively since the beginning of
his career. Dr. Bialostosky is a member of The Reinvention Center's Advisory
Board.
Joseph
Bordogna is Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National
Science Foundation. He received a Bachelor's degree and a PhD from the
University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. His career includes experience as a line officer
in the U.S. Navy, a practicing engineer, and a professor. Prior to his
appointment at the NSF, he served at the University of Pennsylvania as
Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering, Director of The Moore School
of Electrical Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied
Science, and Faculty Master of Stouffer College House, a living-learning
student residence at the University. Dr. Bordogna was a founder of the
Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering (PRIME).
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International
Engineering Consortium.
Peter
J. Bruns is Vice President for Grants and Special Programs at the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Bruns received a Bachelor's degree
in Zoology from Syracuse University and a PhD in Cell Biology from the
University of Illinois. He began his career at Cornell University, where
he is now Emeritus Professor of Genetics. His research, currently funded
by the National Science Foundation, is concerned with molecular and transmission
genetics of Tetrahymena thermophila. He has held a Guggenheim fellowship,
co-organized the First Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Ciliate Molecular
Biology, has been a member of the board of reviewers of the Journal
of Protozoology, Current Genetics, and European Journal of Protistology,
and was Associate Editor for the Journal of Experimental Zoology.
Dr. Bruns has been a member of peer review panels at the National Institutes
of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He recently was a member
of the Committee on Design, Construction and Renovation of Laboratory
Facilities for the National Research Council.
Merry
Bullock is the Associate Executive Director for Science at the American
Psychological Association, where she oversees programs addressing research
and policy issues. She is also Deputy Secretary-General of the International
Union of Psychological Sciences, associate editor of the International
Journal of Psychology, and on the editorial board of Applied Developmental
Psychology. Dr. Bullock holds a Bachelor's degree from Brown University
and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the
American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.
In addition to positions at the National Science Foundation and the American
Psychological Association, she has taught and done research at the University
of British Columbia in Canada, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and
the University of Tartu in Estonia, and has served as Science Policy Advisor
to the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
Janice
DeCosmo is Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University
of Washington. An affiliate faculty member in the Department of Earth
and Space Sciences, Dr. DeCosmo also directs the Washington NASA Space
Grant Consortium and the University's Undergraduate Research Program.
She earned a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington,
specializing in atmosphere-ocean interaction. Her research interests include
marine boundary layer turbulence, mid-latitude storm development and climate
change. She has taught science at all grade levels from kindergarten through
university, and more recently has focused on helping university faculty
find ways to include undergraduates in their research and to integrate
research into their teaching.
Susan
G. Forman is Vice President for Undergraduate Education and Professor,
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, at Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey. Dr. Forman oversees university-wide programs
that improve the undergraduate curriculum and teaching. Her initiatives
include development of university-wide learning goals; faculty grants
programs for curriculum innovation and teaching evaluation; expanded use
of instructional technology in courses; new information technology to
improve student services; development of core science courses for non-science
majors, intercultural curricular and co-curricular programs, service learning
opportunities, and programs to integrate research and undergraduate education
including research intensive courses and undergraduate research opportunities;
establishment of the Rutgers Award for Programmatic Excellence in Undergraduate
Education; and creation of the Rutgers Undergraduate Education Advisory
Council with business and industry membership. She received her PhD in
School Psychology from the University of North Carolina. She has published
books, journal articles, and book chapters on organizational interventions
in educational settings and the effectiveness of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral
interventions with children and youth. Dr. Forman is a member of The Reinvention
Center's Advisory Board.
Conrado
M. Gempesaw, Jr., is Professor of Food and Resource Economics and
Vice Provost for Academic and International Programs at the University
of Delaware. Dr. Gempesaw is responsible for coordinating undergraduate,
graduate, international and continuing education programs and initiatives
at the university level, including the Undergraduate Research Program.
His own research and teaching are in economics and agricultural economics.
He holds a PhD from Pennsylvania State University. An experienced faculty
mentor to undergraduate research students, he served as an advisor to
the National Science Foundation Recognition Award for the Integration
of Research and Education (RAIRE) studies assessing the Undergraduate
Research Program.
Bruno
Giordani is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the
University of Michigan.
Dr Giordani has been an active participant in the University of Michigan's
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program since the program's inception
in 1989. Since that time he has mentored over 50 undergraduate students
from diverse backgrounds, many who are now faculty and researchers around
the country or in prestigious doctoral and medical programs. Dr. Giordani
has created outstanding intergenerational mentorship relationships in
his laboratory, from high school students to postdoctoral fellows. He
has published with his students and is a strong advocate of undergraduate
research. He has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia.
His research focuses on the interaction of cognition and mobility performance
across the lifespan; developmental cognitive and attention disorders;
cross-cultural issues in assessment; neuropsychological and cerebral metabolic
aspects of progressive memory disorders and movement disorders in children
and adults.
Edie
N. Goldenberg is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
at the University of Michigan. From 1989 through 1998 Dr. Goldenberg served
as Dean of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Her
term is identified with major improvements in the undergraduate experience,
significant strengthening of academic programs and the successful completion
of a $180 million College fundraising campaign. She also held positions
as Director of Michigan's Institute of Public Policy Studies and as senior
executive at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Dr. Goldenberg is
a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. She chairs
the Committee on Education and Professional Development for the American
Political Science Association and currently serves on the APSA Taskforce
on Graduate Education. She is an Academic Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation
and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
and the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Goldenberg
holds a Bachelor's degree from MIT and a Master's degree and Ph.D. from
Stanford. She has published numerous articles and two books: Campaigning
for Congress (with Michael W. Traugott) and Making the Papers.
Bernadette
Gray-Little is Professor of Psychology and Executive Associate Provost
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her current role
Dr. Gray-Little has responsibility for undergraduate academic programs.
Previously she has served as Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Chair of the Department of
Psychology. She received a Bachelor's degree from Marywood College and
a Master's degree and PhD in Psychology from St. Louis University. Her
research reflects a continuing interest in the relation of social and
cultural factors to personality and psychopathology. She has been a Social
Science Research Council Fellow and a recipient of a Ford Foundation Senior
Scholar Fellowship through the National Research Council. Dr. Gray-Little
has served on the American Psychological Association's Board of Educational
Affairs, Board of Directors of Division 12, and Committee on Accreditation.
She is associate editor of the American Psychologist. Dr. Gray-Little
is a member of The Reinvention Center's Advisory Board.
William
Scott Green is Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein Professor
of Judaic Studies, and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester.
Dr. Green joined the University of Rochester faculty in 1974 and founded
the popular Department of Religion and Classics in 1983. He is also education
director of the University's joint archaeological excavation with the
Israel Antiquities Authority at Yodefat. He has written extensively on
religion, ancient Judaism, and higher education, and has served on the
board of the Association of American Colleges, the chief academic organization
for promoting liberal education. As the principal administrator of undergraduate
education at the University, he has led in developing the distinctive
system of majors and clusters known as the Rochester Curriculum. Dr. Green
is a member of The Reinvention Center's Advisory Board.
Sandra
Gregerman is Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
(UROP) at the University of Michigan. Since 1992, Ms. Gregerman has overseen
the expansion of UROP from 150 students and faculty to 900 students and
550 faculty participants. She received a Bachelor's degree in Political
Science from the University of California at Davis and a Master's degree
from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.
In her work in higher education, she has focused on issues related to
women in science and retention of historically underrepresented students.
Ms. Gregerman is the recipient of an Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award
from the National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience. The
Undergraduate Research Opportunity has won several awards under her leadership,
including the National Science Foundation Recognition Award for the Integration
of Research and Education, the White House Presidential Award for Excellence
in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Mentoring, and a Hesburgh Award.
Joan
Krejci Griggs is Program Officer and Coordinator of the FIPSE Comprehensive
Program at the U. S. Department of Education. Dr. Griggs has had two stints
as a Program Officer at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education (FIPSE). In the mid-90's she specialized in teacher development,
K-16 initiatives, school-college collaborations, and workforce education
projects funded by the Comprehensive Program. In 1999 she returned to
help launch the new Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) distance
education grant competition, including directing the evaluation efforts
related to the program. Most recently, Dr. Griggs has taken on the coordination
of the Comprehensive Program, FIPSE's flagship grant competition. FIPSE
is currently observing its 30th anniversary. Previously, Dr. Griggs was
the Director of the Institute for Research and Assessment in Higher Education
at the University of Maryland University College; prior to that, she held
leadership posts in continuing/graduate education at the University of
Maryland College Park, SUNY Albany, and Union College. Earlier in her
career, Dr. Griggs taught English and directed college counseling/career
centers. Her doctorate is in Program Development and Evaluation. She has
recently published a book entitled Effectiveness and Efficiency in Higher
Education for Adults.
John
Guillory
is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at New York University.
Dr. Guillory holds a Bachelor's degree from Tulane University and a PhD
from Yale University. His major interests include Renaissance poetry,
Shakespeare, Milton, literature and science in the Renaissance, the history
of criticism, the sociology of literary study, and twentieth-century literary
theory. His books include Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton and Literary
History and Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation,
for which he received the 1994 Rene Wellek Award from the American Comparative
Literature Association. He recently concluded terms as a member of the
Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on the Bibliography of the
Teaching of Literature, the MLA Committee on Professional Employment,
and the MLA Nominating Committee for Second Vice President. He is on the
editorial board of the MLA publication Profession, and previously
served on the Executive Committee of the Folger Shakespeare Library in
Washington, DC.
Robert
L. Hampton is Professor of Sociology, Associate Provost for Academic
Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland
at College Park. As a campus advocate for excellence in undergraduate
education, Dr. Hampton has been involved in the development of several
learning communities, initiated an annual conference for academic advisors,
created a Center for Undergraduate Research, and created a National Scholarship
Office. He has taught and published extensively in the field of family
violence and is one of the co-founders of the Institute on Violence in
the African American Community. Dr. Hampton holds a Bachelor's degree
from Princeton University and a PhD from the University of Michigan.
Diane
Harvey, Undergraduate Studies Librarian at the University of Maryland
Libraries. Dr. Harvey works closely with undergraduate research programs
at the University, and teaches several courses that provide undergraduates
with research experiences. She received degrees from Rutgers University
and Johns Hopkins University, and has worked in a variety of university
and specialized libraries, including Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, and the Newseum.
She was the recipient of a Lilly-CTE Teaching Fellowship at the University
of Maryland in 2001-2002, and was awarded a Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning grant for 2002-2003 to investigate collaboration between librarians
and classroom faculty in teaching about academic integrity.
Nils
Hasselmo is President of the Association of American Universities
and President Emeritus of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hasselmo completed
degrees in Scandinavian Languages and Literature and English at Uppsala
University in Sweden before coming to the United States on the Mauritzson
Scholarship at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, in 1956. He received
his PhD in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1961. He has taught
at the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota and at other universities
in the United States and Sweden on a visiting basis. He served as department
head, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, and Vice President for Administration
and Planning at the University of Minnesota, and as Senior Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Arizona, before
returning to Minnesota in 1989 as President. He assumed the presidency
of the Association of American Universities in 1998. His scholarly interests
have focused on bilingualism and language contact, including books and
articles on the Swedish language in America.
Gregory
Henschel is Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement, United States Department of Education. Mr. Henschel serves
as program officer for the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement,
which has responsibility for research projects on the advancement of practice
in higher education teaching, learning, assessment, organization, and
management. He has developed and led research projects on a wide range
of topics for the federal government, including rising college tuitions,
service-learning, student financial assistance, diversity and academic
quality. Recently, he co-authored a handbook on how families pay for college,
aimed at increasing the awareness of college affordability. Before joining
the Department, he was a legislative assistant in the U.S. Congress.
Andrea
Hershatter is Assistant Dean and Director of the Bachelor of Business
Administration (BBA) Program in the Goizueta Business School at Emory
University. Ms. Hershatter teaches in Organization and Management, specifically
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation. Her research focuses on intellectual
capital, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She has been at
Emory for fourteen years and was the Associate Dean for all academic degree
programs prior to assuming directorship of the undergraduate program.
She is the recipient of the 2001 Don Keough Award for Excellence and the
2002 Emory University Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. She holds
an MBA from the Fuqua School at Duke University. She serves on numerous
national, University, and Business School committees and is a frequent
presenter on the topics of entrepreneurship, the millennial generation,
and management education.
Gary
Hochberg is Associate Dean for the Undergraduate Program at the John
M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr.
Hochberg has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from The American University
and a Master's degree and PhD in Philosophy from Brown University. After
teaching in the Department of Philosophy at Bucknell University from 1971-81,
he joined the administration of the Olin School in 1982. Dr. Hochberg's
responsibilities in the Olin School include the direction of all academic
student services for Olin's 775 full-time undergraduates, and representing
Olin on a number of University-wide committees dealing with undergraduate
issues.
Daniel
Holliman is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and Assistant Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost at Syracuse University. Dr.
Holliman teaches courses in American politics, political participation,
public opinion, and political behavior. His research specialties include:
comparative race and politics, ethnic conflict and nationalism. As Assistant
Chancellor, his responsibilities involve institution-wide academic planning
and policy implementation; strategic research partnership development;
academic affairs assessment and research; multicultural pedagogy and curriculum
infusion; and the development of signature student initiatives that enhance
undergraduate research, theory and practice, community-based learning,
internationalization, and excellence in communication. Dr. Holliman received
his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Patricia
Iannuzzi is Associate University Librarian and Director of the Main
and Undergraduate Libraries at the University of California, Berkeley.
She has held previous positions in libraries at Florida International
University, Yale University, and Tufts University. She chaired the task
force sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries that
worked with the American Association of Higher Education, the Middle States
Commission on Higher Education, and other higher education representatives
to develop Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
She speaks and publishes on a topics related to information literacy and
collaboration, student learning outcomes and assessment, information literacy
and accreditation, and the educational role of the library.
Wendy
Katkin is Director of The Reinvention Center at Stony Brook University.
Dr. Katkin has long been involved in initiatives to enhance undergraduate
education at research universities. As Associate Provost for Educational
Initiatives at Stony Brook University, she provided leadership in the
development and implementation of programs to improve teaching and student
learning including Stony Brook's nationally-recognized Women in Science
and Engineering project (WISE) and many of the University's undergraduate
research programs. Dr. Katkin has a Master's degree in Psychology and
a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo. She has written on issues
relating to undergraduate education and to women in science and is co-editor
of a book, Beyond Pluralism: Essays on the Definition of Groups and
Group Identities in American History (1998).
Stanley
N. Katz is a Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School and Director of
the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University,
and President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.The
author and editor of numerous books and articles, he is a noted authority
on American legal and constitutional history and has served as president
of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for
Legal History, and as vice president of the American Historical Association.
He is a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians.
Dr. Katz received Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees from Harvard University.
He is co-editor of Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern
Ireland, South Africa and Israel/Palestine. His current research focuses
upon the relationship of constitutionalism and civil society, both in
the United States and in emerging democracies around the world.
William
E. Kelly is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Catholic University
of America in Washington, D.C. where he previously served as Dean of the
School of Engineering. He is a member of the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) Board of Directors and chairs the ANSI Board ad hoc Committee
on Standards Awareness and Education and the new Personnel Certification
Accreditation Committee. He is also a member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) Subcommittee on Sustainability and was a member
of the ASCE task committee on the first professional degree. He is past
chair of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
Engineering Accreditation Commission. Dr. Kelly holds Bachelor's, Master's
and PhD degrees from the University of Notre Dame and has taught at Notre
Dame, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a registered
Professional Engineer in Rhode Island and Nebraska.
Shirley
Strum Kenny, President of Stony Brook University, has combined a teaching
and research career with administrative leadership. She taught at the
University of Texas, Gallaudet College, Catholic University, the University
of Delaware and the University of Maryland. At Maryland, she served as
Chair of the English Department and Provost of Arts and Humanities. She
became President of Queens College in 1985 and President of Stony Brook
University in 1994. In order to create a new model of undergraduate education
for major research universities, she established the Boyer Commission
on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. Funded by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Commission in
1998 published Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for
America's Research Universities. Dr. Kenny holds Bachelor's degrees
in English and Journalism from the University of Texas, a Master's degree
from the University of Minnesota, and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
She has published five books and numerous articles on Restoration and
eighteenth century British drama.
Alan
Kraut has been Executive Director of the American Psychological Society
(APS) since it was founded in 1989. The APS is a national organization
devoted to research and academic psychology and its contributions to the
public interest. Since its inception, the APS has been an effective presence
in Washington for scientific psychology, increasing the visibility and
support of psychological, behavioral and social science research in Congress
and in federal research agencies. Dr. Kraut received his PhD in Developmental
Psychology from Syracuse University in 1977. Before joining the APS, he
was on the faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
and served in various positions at the American Psychological Association
in which he oversaw the development of the APA's first public policy and
lobbying offices, its public information arm, and its first administrative
directorate for science.
David
A. Martinez has served since 1999 as a Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Mentor for the Undergraduate Research Program at the University
of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Martinez has a Bachelor's degree from
Stanford University and is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA, specializing
in 20th century American literature and Chicano/a literature. His dissertation
examines the discursive relationship between contemporary Chicano/a prose
fiction and popular culture, particularly in the areas of music and film.
Carolyn
Ash Merkel is Director of Student-Faculty Programs at the California
Institute of Technology. She administers four undergraduate research programs
-- in which close to 400 students participate annually --including the
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), Minority Undergraduate
Research Fellowships (MURF), Beckman Scholars, and the Axline SURF program
for incoming freshmen. Ms. Merkel recently completed a pilot project for
the Association of American Universities to study undergraduate research
in six research universities. She serves on the Board of Governors for
the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and was a founder of
the Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research. She has
been affiliated with the Council on Undergraduate Research for many years,
and served as an At Large Councilor. She has been recognized for her contributions
by the Caltech Chapter of Sigma Xi and by Caltech, which designated her
Woman of the Year and an Honorary Alumna. She holds a Bachelor's degree
in Liberal Studies from Mt. Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles.
Barbara
Nolan is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of
Virginia. Dr. Nolan served from 1992 to 2002 as Vice Provost for Instructional
Development and Innovation. In that capacity she oversaw a number of programs
and initiatives related to faculty development and student learning. Her
teaching interests include Chaucer's poetry, medieval romance, medieval
bawdy stories in their manuscript contexts, Ovid's Art of Love and Remedies
of Love in relation to medieval Latin and vernacular poetry, spiritual
autobiography, and juxtapositions of the sacred and the profane in medieval
fiction. Dr. Nolan was a Trustee of the New Chaucer Society and is on
the advisory boards of Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature
and New Literary History. She is the author of numerous articles and
two books, The Gothic Visionary Perspective and Chaucer and
the Tradition of the Roman Antique. She holds a Bachelor's degree
from Trinity College and a Master's degree and PhD from the University
of Wisconsin. Dr. Nolan is a member of The Reinvention Center's Advisory
Board.
Julian
M. Olf is Professor of Dramaturgy and Graduate Program Director at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The recipient of a Master's
degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a PhD in
Drama and Cinema from New York University, Dr. Olf's 37-year career spans
teaching positions at City University of New York, Stony Brook University,
the University of Toledo and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
including 21 years as a department chair. His numerous directing credits
include Stravinski's L'Histoire du Soldat, with the Toledo Symphony
Orchestra, and Heiner Müller's Medeamaterial, for the Sixteenth
Amherst Colloquium on German Literature. A former editor of Theatre
Journal, Dr. Olf was on the founding Board of the Association for
Theatre in Higher Education and served two terms as its Vice President
for Research and Publications. He is also a Founding Trustee of the Pioneer
Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts. Dr. Olf is an author
of fiction, plays and screenplays.
Linda
E. Parker is Engineering Program Evaluation Director in the Division
of Engineering Education and Centers at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Parker has responsibility for designing and managing a portfolio of
formal outcome and impact studies for the Directorate for Engineering,
as well for studies for programs outside of Engineering upon request.
She also designs and oversees the conduct of broader studies relating
to innovation, the emergence of new research areas, the engineering workforce,
and program-related policies. Dr. Parker has had multiple consultancies
with the World Bank, which involved projects dealing with industry-university
collaboration around the world, developing academic research capacity,
and improving the quality of undergraduate and graduate education in all
academic fields. She received a Bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State
University, a Master's from George Washington University, and a PhD from
the University of Virginia.
Jeanne
E. Pemberton, John and Helen Schaefer Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Arizona, received a Bachelor's degree with Honors in Chemistry
from the University of Delaware and a PhD in Chemistry from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She started as an Assistant Professor
of Chemistry at the University of Arizona in 1981, becoming the John and
Helen Schaefer Professor of Chemistry in 2001. In addition to overseeing
an active research program in the area broadly defined as interfacial
chemistry, she has served as a member of the National Research Council
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, the Department of Energy Council
on Chemical Sciences, and the National Science Foundation Mathematical
and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee. She has been a member of the
American Chemical Society's Committee on Professional Training since 1993,
serving as its Chair from 2000-2002. She has been recognized for both
her teaching and her research, twice receiving the National Science Foundation's
Award for Special Creativity.
Sharon
Prado is founding director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program (UROP) and founder and executive director of the Center for Excellence
in Teaching at Boston University. Dr. Prado is project director on two
Beckman Scholars awards and co-PDI on a NIH-Summer Research Experiences
for Undergraduates grant. She established a SURF program, with the Northeast
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professorate at UMass-Amherst,
to provide research opportunities for underserved undergraduates. Dr.
Prado holds both a master's and Ph.D., degree in musicology from the College-Conservatory
of Music of the University of Cincinnati. She has taught undergraduate
courses at Boston University and the University of Cincinnati and graduate
courses at Boston University, including Impressionism in Music, Music
Aesthetics and Criticism, and The Mass and Motet in the Sixteenth Century.
Her research interests include late-19th century French music, aesthetics,
film music, and women composers. She has published in the New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians and in Contemporary Music Review. She is a contributing
editor to the forthcoming new complete works edition of Carl Phillip Emanuel
Bach, published by the Packard Humanities Institute.
Patricia
Pukkila is Associate Professor of Biology and founding Director of
the Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. Dr. Pukkila earned a Bachelor's degree from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD from Yale University. She has received
both a Tanner Award and a Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate Professorship
for excellence in undergraduate teaching. She organized a multi-campus
undergraduate research symposium for the North Carolina state government
in 2001, and is currently chairing a subcommittee of the UNC system Consortium
on Undergraduate Research to expand symposium participation to all 16
system campuses in 2003. She is a Councilor in the At-Large Division of
the Council on Undergraduate Research, a member of the Education Committee
of the American Society for Cell Biology, and she edits the Genetics Education
section of the journal GENETICS. Her research focuses on the genetic
basis of chromosome behavior during meiosis.
Judith
A. Ramaley is Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources
at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Ramaley has been a professor of
biology at five universities, served as president of the University of
Vermont and Portland State University in Oregon, and held senior administrative
positions at the State University of New York at Albany, the University
of Kansas, and the University of Nebraska. She served as chair of the
American Council on Education's Commission on Women in Higher Education
and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
(NASULGC) Commission on the Urban Agenda, and currently chairs a committee
of the U.S. Department of Education's National Advisory Council for School-to-Work
Opportunities and the Association of American Colleges and Universities'
National Panel on Greater Expectations. Dr. Ramaley holds a bachelor's
degree from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of California,
Los Angeles. She is the author of several seminal publications on educational
reform and its relation to society.
David
P. Roselle is President of the University of Delaware. He has been
a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, Louisiana State
University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI).
At VPI, he served as Dean of Research and Graduate Studies and as Provost
- a position he held until assuming the Presidency at the University of
Kentucky. Dr. Roselle has a Bachelor's degree from West Chester (Pa.)
University and a PhD in Mathematics from Duke University. He is a member
of the Mathematical Association of America, the National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and
the American Mathematical Society. He was Associate Editor of the American
Mathematical Monthly and referees several journals, including Mathematical
Reviews.
Clinton
Rubin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
and Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Biotechnology
at Stony Brook University. The Department of Biomedical Engineering includes
faculty at the University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Brookhaven
National Laboratory. The Center for Biotechnology links the intellectual
and physical resources of the region's universities to the biotechnology,
pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Dr. Rubin has a Bachelor's
degree from Harvard College and a PhD from Bristol University. His research
focuses on using biophysical stimuli to accelerate the healing process.
His work is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Space Biomedical
Research Institute, the Whitaker Foundation, private industry and the
New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research. Dr.
Rubin holds nine patents in the area of wound repair and treatment of
bone disease and is a founder of a publicly traded medical device company
and an early stage company focused on diagnostics.
Matthew
S. Santirocco is Professor of Classics, Angelo J. Ranieri Director
of Ancient Studies, and Dean of the College of Arts and Science at New
York University. Before arriving at NYU, Dr. Santirocco was Professor
and Chair of Classical Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Santirocco's teaching ranges widely
and includes courses on Latin literature, Greek poetry, mythology, and
the classical tradition. At the University of Pennsylvania he developed
humanities curricula in the MBA and Executive Education Programs of the
Wharton School. At NYU he helped to design a new core curriculum, the
Morse Academic Plan. Educated at Columbia and Cambridge Universities,
he is the author of a book on Latin lyric poetry, an edited volume of
essays on the classical tradition, and many scholarly articles. He is
currently working on a book about the poetics of patronage in Augustan
Rome. He served as Vice President for Professional Matters for the American
Philological Association, was the editor of the Association's two monograph
series, American Classical Studies and Philological Monographs,
and is currently the editor of Classical World. Dr. Santirocco
is a member of The Reinvention Center's Advisory Board.
Janet
A. Schmidt is Director of Engineering Research at the University of
Maryland at College Park. Dr. Schmidt is an educational psychologist who
has been responsible for developing an assessment plan for the College
of Engineering for external accreditation purposes focusing on student
learning outcomes. She is interested in issues related to student retention
and the sucess of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) fields. Dr. Schmidt did her baccalaureate work at Allegheny College
and received her master's degree from Ohio State. Her Ph.D. is from the
University of Minnesota.
Martin
Schoonen is
Professor of Geosciences and Associate Vice President for Research at
Stony Brook University. Dr. Schoonen's research interests are in environmental
sciences, astrobiology, and geochemistry. Current projects that his research
group is working on include: development of new abatement strategies for
acid mine drainage; kinetics of electron transfer reactions involving
minerals; and mineral-based catalysis in prebiotic synthesis. His group
is part of Stony Brook's newly established NSF-funded Center for Environmental
Molecular Science. Dr. Schoonen, a member of NASA's Astrobiology Institute,
received his Ph.D from Pennsylvania State University in 1989. In his capacity
as Associate Vice President for Research at Stony Brook he is charged
with fostering interdisciplinary research on campus.
Said
M. Shokair is the founding Director of the Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Program (UROP) and the Summer Undergraduate Research Program
(SURP) at the University of California at Irvine. Under his leadership,
UROP now includes four components: advising students on research opportunities
on and off-campus, providing funding through two calls for proposals,
and sponsoring the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium and Journal. He
has extensive experience in directing, planning, executing, and analyzing
programs that promote faculty-mentored undergraduate research and other
academic support programs. He has also administered federally-funded programs,
including scholarship programs funded by the National Science Foundation
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a curriculum-development
grant program funded by the United States Department of Energy, and an
undergradaute research fellowship program funded by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology. A former member of the Insitutional Review
Board, his academic background is in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis
in biomedical applications.
Judith
L. Smith is Professor of Physiological Science and Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education in the College of Letters and Science at the University
of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Smith is UCLA's first Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education. In this post, newly-created in 1997, she is responsible
for many programs that foster innovation and excellence in undergraduate
education, including General Education, College Honors, the Student Research
Programs, the College's Writing II Program, freshman orientation, the
Office of Instructional Support, and student diversity programs. She received
a PhD from the University of Wisconsin and began her career at UCLA as
an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology. Early in her career, she was recognized
for innovative teaching, and was only the second woman to receive a UCLA
Distinguished Teaching Award. She was the Chair of her department for
five years and co-founded the undergraduate Neuroscience program, an inter-departmental
program that spans the College of Letters and Science and the School of
Medicine. Her research on spinal cord physiology and limb dynamics was
continuously funded by NIH for 27 years, and she received a Javits Neuroscience
Research Award in 1990. Dr. Smith is a member of The Reinvention Center's
Advisory Board.
Glenn
Starkman is Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Associate
Provost for the Undergraduate Initiative at Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Starkman received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Physics and
Astrophysics from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Physics from
Stanford. He joined the faculty of CWRU in 1995, after holding positions
at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Canadian Institute
for Theoretical Astrophysics and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
His research is in theoretical particle-astrophysics and cosmology. He
is an author of numerous articles, co-author of a handbook on hands-on
techniques for teaching cosmology, and is under contract for a freshman
cosmology text. He received the National Science Foundation's Early Career
Development Award for junior faculty who combine promise in research and
teaching. Dr. Starkman currently leads a major strategic re-imagination
of and reinvestment in undergraduate education at CWRU, designed to tie
education to active experiences inside and outside the classroom. Dr.
Starkman is a member of The Reinvention Center's Advisory Board.
Janet
Stocks is Director of the Undergraduate Research Initiative at Carnegie
Mellon University. The Initiative provides seed funds for undergraduate
research projects, recognizes students conducting research, funds undergraduates
presenting their findings at academic conferences, and presents an annual
undergraduate research symposium. The program is available to students
from each of the University's six undergraduate colleges and has proven
extremely successful in encouraging students to pursue graduate studies
and research careers. Dr. Stocks has a PhD in Sociology from the University
of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include gender issues, education,
religion, global environmental change, social change and ethnography.
She is currently participating in two research projects: an international
study investigating how couples negotiate their daily lives and a study
of informal science learning among middle-school girls.
Robert
Thompson is Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University
where he holds appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, Pediatrics, and Psychology. He also served as Director of the
Undergraduate Program in Human Development and Co-Director of the Faculty
Associates Program. His research interests address how biological and
psychosocial processes act together in development. He has authored over
100 scientific publications, including a recent book, Adaptation to
Chronic Childhood Illness. Dr. Thompson served as President of the
Association of Medical School Professors of Psychology. He received the
Association's Distinguished Researcher Award and the Distinguished Service
Award of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. He holds a Bachelor's degree
from LaSalle College and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University
of North Dakota.
J.
Kim Vandiver is Professor of Ocean Engineering and Dean for Undergraduate
Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also directs
MIT's Edgerton Center and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
(UROP), which involves 80% of MIT's undergraduate students in research
projects with research staff and faculty. Throughout his teaching career,
Dr. Vandiver has stressed the importance of hands-on learning. In 1992
he founded the Edgerton Center at MIT, which provides resources for MIT
students engaged in hands-on educational projects. In 1998 he was the
recipient of the MIT President's Award for Community Service for the Edgerton
Center's work with the Cambridge Public Schools. In 2001 he was honored
as a MacVicar Fellow for excellence in teaching. His research focuses
on the dynamics of offshore structures and flow-induced vibration. Dr.
Vandiver received a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd
College of Science and Engineering, a Master's degree in Ocean Engineering
from MIT, and a PhD in Oceanographic Engineering from the MIT and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program.
Lee
Willard is Associate Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
at Duke University. Dr. Willard is responsible for academic planning and
programmatic and fund-raising development in Trinity College, Duke's undergraduate
liberal arts college. Through her efforts related to strategic planning
and her service on various University committees, she has been involved
in Arts and Sciences and the New Millennium (the Arts and Sciences Plan),
Curriculum 2000 (the revision of the undergraduate curriculum), the implementation
of the East Campus residential plan, and the development of a series of
institutional grants, ranging from the development of the first-year FOCUS
Program and the Markets and Management certificate to undergraduate science
education and facilities renovation. Dr. Willard holds a Bachelor's degree
from Agnes Scott College and PhD in Classics from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Willard is a member of The Reinvention Center's
Advisory Board.
Reed
Wilson is Director of the College of Letters and Science Undergraduate
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of
California at Los Angeles. Dr. Wilson has undergraduate and graduate degrees
from the UCLA Department of English where he now teaches poetry writing.
He has taught at UCLA, Lafayette College, University of Southern California,
and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he served as the
first Undergraduate Writing Coordinator. His poems have appeared in The
Antioch Review and elsewhere.
William
B. Wood is Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He holds a Bachelor's degree from
Harvard College and a PhD in Biochemistry from Stanford University, and
he is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research is on the genetic control
and molecular biology of axis formation, pattern formation, and sex determination
in embryos of the nematode C. elegans. Earlier, he was lead author
of the widely used textbook Biochemistry: A Problems Approach,
which helped to introduce problem-based learning to biochemistry. He was
a member of the NRC Committee that produced the recent report Learning
and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science
in U.S. High Schools, and he currently serves on the editorial board
of Cell Biology Education.
Ellen
Woods is Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
at Stanford University.
Dr. Woods earned her Bachelor's degree at the University of Pittsburgh
and her PhD in French and Humanities at Stanford University with a specialization
in medieval literary studies. She has held teaching appointments at Stanford
in the Department of French and in the Western Culture Program, a required
interdisciplinary humanities program for freshman. Since 1983, Dr. Woods
has held a variety of administrative positions at Stanford, serving as
"innovation manager" for a number of recent reforms of undergraduate
education. These include the conceptualization and implementation of Honors
College, Sophomore College, Stanford Introductory Seminars, the Introduction
to the Humanities program, Undergraduate Research Grant Programs, and
several writing initiatives. Among other areas of responsibility are curricular
review and innovation, general education requirements, teaching awards,
advising, and academic technology. Dr. Woods is a member of The Reinvention
Center's Advisory Board.
Andrew
L. Zydney is Endowed Bio-Chair and Professor in the Department of
Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Zydney was
a member of the faculty advisory board for the University of Delaware's
Research-Based Education program from 1997-2001. He also directed the
Delaware Chemical Engineering Department's Research Experiences for Undergraduates
program and has personally advised more than 35 undergraduate research
assistants. Dr. Zydney has received several teaching awards, including
the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award and the Distinguished
Teacher Award from the American Society for Engineering Education.
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