Wendy Katkin is the Director of the Reinvention Center, a national organization established in 2000 to work for the improvement of undergraduate education at research universities. Dr. Katkin has long been involved in initiatives to enhance undergraduate education at research universities. In her previous positions as Associate Provost for Educational Initiatives and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University at Stony Brook, she provided leadership in the development and implementation of programs to improve teaching and student learning. She founded and for five years directed Stony Brook's nationally-recognized Women in Science and Engineering project (WISE), designed to engage high-ability high school and college women in the excitement and challenge of science and math. She also initiated many of the University's undergraduate research programs. These innovations were critical to Stony Brook being one of ten research universities nationwide selected by the National Science Foundation in 1997 for a Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education (RAIRE). Dr. Katkin played a pivotal role in the activities cited by the TIAA-CREF when Stony Brook was one of three institutions honored in 1999 with a Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. In 1991, she was cited by the U.S. Department of Energy for her contributions to the math and science education of minority students. Dr. Katkin has a PhD in English (1973; University at Buffalo) and an MS in Psychology (1976; 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). Her three most recent publications are "Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report" in Undergraduate Research: Models for Learning through Inquiry (Jossey-Bass, 2003); "The Integration of Research and Education: A Case Study in Reinventing Undergraduate Education at a Research University" in Reinvigorating the Undergraduate Experience through Research and Inquiry-Based Learning (Council of Undergraduate Research, 2003), and "Building Connections in Research Universities" published in Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines (The Mathematical Association of America, 2004).

Margaret Marshall is the Associate Director of The Reinvention Center. She joined the staff of the Reinvention Center in 2007. Previously, she served as the Director of English Composition at the University of Miami from 1999-2006. In that position, Dr. Marshall oversaw a curricular reform that took seriously the call to involve undergraduates in research even in first-year courses. That curriculum led to a first-year textbook for composition courses built around inquiry projects that help students learn research methods and ways of presenting research in written forms. The book, Composing Inquiry: Methods and Readings for Investigation and Writing, is due out in early 2008. Dr. Marshall is the author of two other books on the rhetoric of educational discourses: Contesting Cultural Rhetorics: Public Discourse and Education, 1890-1900 and Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching. In 2002 she coordinated the compilation of research from across the 75-year history of the University of Miami and developed assignments and training that allowed this book, Bold Beginnings, Bright Tomorrows: An Anthology of Faculty Writings, to be used in undergraduate courses. Dr. Marshall has also published articles and given presentations on curricular objectives, student writing, the politics of writing centers, National Board Standards for teacher accreditation, the rhetoric of educational research, graduate student preparation to teach, and faculty development initiatives. She regularly teaches first-year composition as well as advanced courses in legal rhetoric, research writing, women’s rhetoric and pedagogy.

Executive Board
The members of the Advisory Board work closely with the Reinvention Center Director to establish Center priorities and plan and implement Center initiatives.

William Scott Green
Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Miami

Dr. Green also teaches courses in religion and in entrepreneurship at the University of Miami. Until July 1, 2006, he was Professor of Religion and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester, where he founded the popular Department of Religion and Classics in 1983, led in developing Rochester's undergraduate curriculum, and was Director of Rochester's university-wide Center for Entrepreneurship. Dr. Green writes 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. He is currently collaborating with David Sloan Wilson on a research project on religion and social evolution.

Stanley N. Katz
Professor at The Woodrow Wilson School, Acting Director, Law and Public Affairs, and Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University, and President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies

Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Dr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions, and he is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. He received his bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees from Harvard and also attended Harvard Law School. Dr. Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Social Science Research Council, the Copyright Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Dr. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and he has honorary degrees from several universities. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime.

Ralph W. Kuncl
Provost and Executive Vice President University of Rochester
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Professor of Neurology

Dr. Kuncl has been a national leader in the neurosciences. Before becoming Provost at the University of Rochester in August 2007, he served as Provost of Bryn Mawr College for five years. Previously, Dr. Kuncl was Professor of Neurology, Pathology,  and the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Director of the Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory, and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Johns Hopkins University. There, he created an 8-department multidisciplinary Motor Neuron Study Group, was Associate Editor of the leading international neuroscience journal, Annals of Neurology, and conceived and established several university philanthropic funds for research, including the Cal Ripken/Lou Gehrig Fund for Neuromuscular Research. As a teacher, he has won several awards for excellence, including the Frank Ford Award for outstanding teaching in neurosciences; he was the John Kendig Neuroscience Lecturer in 1998. He has trained numerous post-graduate and undergraduate students who have gone on to named fellowships and won research awards themselves. The inaugural volume of the philosophy journal, Prometheus, was dedicated to his mentoring of undergraduates. The University of Chicago honored him with the Distinguished Service Award in 2002. As a Fellow of the American Council on Education, he focused his research on how one might best re-design an undergraduate school of arts and sciences that exists within the mission of a strong research university. Most recently, he authored a study of federal under-investment in higher education research, published in the July 2004 issue of Academe. He has been active in the arts for the past 17 years as a performer with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, which is heard regularly on national and international public radio on "The First Art."

Barbara Nolan
Robert C. Taylor Professor of English, University of Virginia

Dr. Nolan came to the University of Virginia in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, where she had been the Director of Freshman Composition and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. At Virginia she was first Graduate Director and then Chair of the English Department. From 1992 to 2002, she served 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. She holds a BA from Trinity College and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. 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.

Bobbi Owen
Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor of Dramatic Art

As a faculty member at UNC since 1974, Professor Owen has held a number of  administrative positions connected to undergraduate education.  In 2004 she was appointed to her current position as Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences. In this position she oversees a range of academic programs, scholarships, and services for undergraduate students, including the Academic Advising Program, Academic Services, the Honors Program and the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, First Year Seminars, Student Academic Counseling, Undergraduate Curriculum, and Undergraduate Research.  She provided leadership in UNC’s revision of its general education curriculum, which took effect in the Fall, 2005, and is actively involved in its implementation.   With colleagues, she is also playing a key role in UNC’s  orientation for new students, retention efforts, and Making Critical Connections, the Quality Enhancement Plan that was developed as part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s recent reaffirmation of accreditation process. Professor Owen is the author of hundreds of articles and six books about major American theatrical designers including The Designs of Willa Kim (2005) and the exhibition catalog for the United States entry in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial Design USA. Her many credits as a costume designer, include productions at PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, Charleston Stage Company, and the American Place and RiverWest Theaters in New York City.

Matthew S. Santirocco
Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Professor of Classics, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, New York University

Before arriving at NYU, he was Professor and Chair of Classical Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia, Emory, and Brown Universities. Dr. Santirocco's research and teaching ranges widely and includes Latin literature, Greek poetry, mythology, and the classical tradition. Educated at Columbia and Cambridge Universities, he is the author of a book on Latin lyric poetry, several edited volumes on the classical tradition and on Horace, and many scholarly articles. He is currently working on a book about the poetics of patronage in Augustan Rome. At Penn 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, and led faculty in the creation of an undergraduate research initiative, Collegiate Seminars, and a variety of interdisciplinary and interschool programs. NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, which he founded and directs, promotes the development of interdisciplinary courses, annual conferences and colloquia, and summer outreach seminars for faculty from throughout the United States. Dr. Santirocco also has an interest in secondary education, and has directed two NEH Seminars for School Teachers and participated in a year-long NEH Masterworks grant. He has served as Vice President for Professional Matters and is currently Senior Financial Trustee of the American Philological Association. He was also the editor of the Association's monograph series, American Classical Studies, and is currently the editor of the journal, Classical World.

Glenn Starkman
Armington Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Starkman grew up in Toronto, Canada where he received a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Toronto. After receiving a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford, he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, then a research associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and a Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He joined the faculty of CWRU in 1995. His research is in theoretical particle-astrophysics and cosmology. He is an author of numerous articles in major research journals, and two recent Scientific American articles on the shape of space and the fate of life in our universe. He co-authored 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 led 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.

Patricia A. Turner

Vice Provost of Undergraduate Studies,

University of California, Davis

Patricia A. Turner was appointed Vice Provost—Undergraduate Studies at University of California, Davis in 1999.  From 2004-2006 she served as interim dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (HArCS).  She returned to the position of Vice Provost—Undergraduate Studies in spring of 2007.  Vice Provost Turner serves on the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)’s Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence and on the executive board of the American Folklore Society.  Vice Provost Turner recently completed her fourth book, Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African-American Quilters, scheduled for publication in either late 2008 or early 2009.  Turner has served as a consulting scholar on several documentary film projects.  She conducted research for and appeared on camera in Marlon Riggs’ Ethnic Notions which received a national Emmy award in 1989 for best research in a documentary.  She also conducted research for and appeared on camera in his 1992 Peabody-award winning film Color Adjustment.  Most recently, she was interviewed for a film on quilt artist Riche Richardson, scheduled for completion in 2008. Turner’s commentary on issues related to folklore and popular culture is frequently sought by print, radio and television journalists.  She has been interviewed for stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and many other prominent publications.  She has completed dozens of National Public Radio interviews including features on Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered.  She has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, the CBS Evening News, the O’Reilly Factor and her book, I Heard It Through the Grapevine inspired a story on ABC’s 20/20.

Lee Willard
Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, 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 BA from Agnes Scott College and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an alumna of Harvard University's Management Development Program and serves as a member of Project Kaleidoscope's National Committee of visitors and as a consultant to a variety of colleges and universities.

William B. Wood
Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Wood has taught at the California Institute of Technology and University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds a BA degree from Harvard College and a PhD in Biochemistry from Stanford University, and 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 ontrol and molecular biology of axis formation and patterning 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.

Reinvention Center Charter Members

Institutions

American University

Auburn University

Boston University

Case Western Reserve University

Clemson University

Colorado State University 

Duke University

Emory University 

George Washington University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Indiana University

Johns Hopkins University

Louisiana State University

Michigan State University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Montana State University

New York University

North Carolina State University in Raleigh

Northwestern University

Ohio State University

Pennsylvania State University

Stony Brook University

Syracuse University

Tufts University

University of Alabama

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Riverside

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Connecticut

University of Delaware

University of Florida

University of Georgia

University of Houston

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Kentucky

University of Maryland

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Miami

University of Minnesota

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of New Hampshire

University of New Mexico

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

University of Notre Dame

University of Oregon

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester

University of South Carolina

University of Southern California 

University of Texas at Austin

University of Utah

University of Virginia

University of Wyoming

Utah State University

Vanderbilt University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Washington State University

Washington University in St. Louis

Wayne State University

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