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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 137-146
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, where he directed the Goddard Space Flight Center, was deputy director of the Ames Research Center, directed the Planetary Program in the Office of Space Science at NASA headquarters, and was mission director for the Project Viking Mars landing program. He has been a member of several National Research Council committees, including the Office of Science and Engineering Personnel Advisory Committee and the Committee on Supply Chain Integration: New Roles and Challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Companies.
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Mr. Anders is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a trustee of the Battelle Memorial Institute, and a member of the board of the Center for Occupational Research and Development, an organization that develops comprehensive tech-prep programs designed to enable students to make a successful transition from school to work.
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Dr. Custer is a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Teacher Preparation in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education: Integrating Research Recommendations and the Realities of Practice, and the National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Engineering Education.
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She also chaired the National Research Council Board on Engineering Education. PAUL DE VORE is president of PVVD Associates, a consulting company which he founded.
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She has served on the NSF's teacher enhancement panel, has been a faculty member for the National Science Resources Center's Leadership Academy for Science Education Reform, and was a featured classroom teacher in case studies of prominent U.S. innovations in science, math, and technology education.
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He also oversees an alternative high school, adult basic education programs, and language programs for international students.
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She established The Earth We Share™, an international science camp for 12to 16-year-olds that builds critical thinking and problem-solving skills through an experiential curriculum. She also serves as Bayer Corporation's National Science Literacy Advocate.
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In 1977, he was appointed by President Carter to be assistant director of the National Science Foundation responsible for all science, mathematics, and engineering education programs, preschool through postdoctoral, and for federal programs to improve the public understanding of science.
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He also oversaw a review of national K-12 content standards for the study of technology developed by the International Technology Education Association. He has worked collaboratively with colleagues within and outside the National Academies on a variety of projects involving K-12 science, mathematics, technology, and engineering education and the public understanding of engineering and science.
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