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Committee Member Biographies
Pages 60-63

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... She is an elected fellow of the officio member of the National Academies Teacher Entomological Society of America, the American Advisory Council, which he initiated. Committed to Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American improving science education, he helped initiate and Philosophical Society.
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From page 61...
... At George Mason University he has develparameters, plant phylogeny, plant genetic transmis- oped courses and companion texts on scientific literacy. sion and molecular genetics, and genetic conservation His books with coauthor James Trefil include Science in agriculture.
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... Pennock is professor of history and philosoon the role of symbiotic interactions in ecology and phy of science at Michigan State University, where he is evolution and involves fundamental evolutionary on the faculty of the Lyman Briggs College of Science, forces, such as mutation, gene transfer, natural selec- the Philosophy Department, and the Department of tion, and ecological diversification. Using approaches Computer Science, as well as the Center for Ethics from molecular evolution, systematics, genomics, and and Humanities in the Life Sciences and the Ecology, population genetics, she works extensively with both Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior graduate program.
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... is the Engelmann professor of western United States. Her recent work has examined botany at Washington University and director of the gene flow between genetically modified rice and wild Missouri Botanical Garden in St.
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