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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 196-202

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From page 196...
... Previously, she was the (Erector for the Center for Fast Kinetics Research, vice chair of the National Science Board, anti a member of the Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories (the Galvin Committee)
From page 197...
... Hackerman received the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal in March 197S, the Mirabeau B Lamar Award of the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities in 1981, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from The Johns Hopkins University in 1982, the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award of the Electrochemical Society in 1984, the Alumni Gold Medal for distinguished service to Rice University in 1984, the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award of the American Chemical Society in 1987, the AAAS-Philip Hauge Abelson Prize in 1987, the Vannevar Bush Award of the National Science Board in 1993, and the National Medal of Science in 1993.
From page 198...
... She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Awar(1 (1987-1992) , the American Society of Engineering Education AT&T Foundation Teaching Awar(1 (1991)
From page 199...
... and multiple laboratory sections. Her research, funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, focuses on alternative assessments for large science courses, including student self-renection as a form of student evaluation.
From page 200...
... . Her academic training is in chemistry and cognition, anti her research interests inclu(le conceptual change in students' understanding of science, curricular designs that support knowledge integration, and systemic reform issues.
From page 201...
... He has taught in the United States and Australia in departments of mathematics, philosophy, psychology, the history anti philosophy of science, and education. He has held fellowships from the Educational Testing Service, the Center for A(lvance(1 Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, and the National Science Foundation, among others.
From page 202...
... At CCNY he was the principal investigator for a grant from National Science Foundation to establish a Faculty Development Center at CCNY. He has taught numerous courses in the earth sciences to both un(lergra(luate anti graduate students.


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