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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).
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.
Donna Hamilton
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Donna Hamilton is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. From 1990 to 1996, she held the position of Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Humanities where she had major responsibility for undergraduate education and for international affairs initiatives, including serving as chair of the University’s International Affairs Committee and promoting the establishment of a program in Asian American studies. From 1998 to 2003, she was Director of English Undergraduate Studies, overseeing curricular issues and advising services for 700 English majors. During 2003-2004, she served as Interim Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. In July 2004, she was named Associate Provost and Dean. Her responsibilities include oversight of University Honors, College Park Scholar, Letters and Sciences and other programs for freshmen and sophomores; Asian American Studies; LGBT Studies, the Center for Teaching Excellence; Army and Air Force ROTC, and all of the TRIO programs on campus. She has responsibility for enrollment management, learning outcomes assessment, transfer student initiatives, academic advising policy, limited enrollment program policy. She recently led a project.that resulted in innovative new science and technology courses for non-science majors, known as Marquee Courses in Science and Technology. A specialist in sixteenth-century English literature, Dr. Hamilton has published articles and chapters in books on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and is also the author of Virgil and The Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (1990); Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992); and Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005). She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses throughout her career. Professor Hamilton is a member of the Reinvention Center’s Executive Board.
Daniel E. Hastings
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems and Dean for Undergraduate Education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Hastings received his B.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University and his S.M. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Professor Hastings has taught courses and seminars in plasma physics, rocket propulsion, advanced space power and propulsion systems, aerospace policy, technology and policy, and space systems engineering. Recently, his research has focused on issues related to space systems and space policy. He has published many papers in the field of spacecraft-environment interactions and with Henry Garrett wrote Spacecraft-Environment Interactions (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He has also written on space propulsion and space systems. From 1997-1999, he was chief scientist of the US Air Force. In that role, he served as chief scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and the Secretary and provided assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission. Professor Hastings is a fellow of the AIAA and INCOSE, and an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics, and is a member of the National Science Board, the Applied Physics Lab Science and Technology Advisory Panel, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Committee, and the Board of Trustees of the Aerospace Corporation.
Dennis C. Jacobs
Vice President and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
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."
Claudia Neuhauser
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Rochester
Dr. Neuhauser holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She is Director of the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester and is responsible for the development of an innovative new undergraduate degree in the Health Sciences. An applied mathematician, Dr. Neuhauser's research interests are in two areas of biology: ecology and population genetics. In ecology, she studies the role of space in community dynamics, and in population genetics, she is investigating how selection affects geneaologies. She is the author of numerous articles and a textbook, Calculus for Biology and Medicine (Prentice Hall 2004), which is based on her teaching of an undergraduate calculus course for biology majors.
Bobbi
Owen
Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, and Michael R. McVaugh Distinguished Professor of Dramatic Art
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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.
Robert J. Thompson
Senior Consultant for Assessment for the Reinvention Center. In his new role with the Center, he will provide guidance and leadership for a major initiative on assessment that the Center is undertaking.
Robert J. Thompson Jr., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. He holds a B.A. from LaSalle College and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Dakota. Dr. Thompson also holds appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University. Before joining the faculty at Duke, he held positions at Georgetown University Medical Center and Catholic University of America. His research interests address how biological and psychosocial processes act together in development. He has authored over 100 scientific publications, including the book Adaptation to Chronic Childhood Illness (with Kathryn Gustafson; American Psychology Association, 1996). Dr. Thompson served as President of the Association of Medical School Professors of Psychology and received the Association’s Distinguished Researcher Award in 1993. He also received the Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Pediatric Psychology in 1997. Dr. Thompson has been on the editorial board for several scientific journals, and served as associate editor for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. He previously served as Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University.
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