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Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Pages 181-188
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, a fellow and board member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, chair of the Nominations Committees for the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and a member of the Kauffman National Panel for Entrepreneurship. She is currently a member of a number of NAE/National Academy of Sciences committees and the Advisory Committee for Harvard Radcliffe College and a member of the Engineering Advisory Committees for Caltech, the University of Washington, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Since 1993, through CTL, he has won seven major National Science Foundation grants for work on improving technological literacy.
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He has written a National Foundations of Technology curriculum and a National Introduction to Engineering curriculum for the International Technology Education Association Center to Advance the Teaching of Technology and Science. A member of the team writing technology education standards for the state of Wisconsin, he has published materials in professional journals and in the Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.
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Deborah McGriff has worked for almost four decades to transform the lives of underserved urban school students. Currently, she is president of the Education Industry Association, an association of providers of education services; a member of the Advisory Board of the National Council on Teacher Quality; a founder and national board member of the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard University John F
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From 1988 to 2006, he was head of the Center for Science and Engineering Education at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and from 1995 to 1998, he was executive director of the California Science Project, a statewide teacher professional-development network. From 1986 to 1988, he was assistant director of the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Schunn is an associate professor of psychology and a research scientist in the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. His basic research involves studying experts and novices in complex domains, such as science, engineering, submarining, and weather forecasting, to develop theoretical and computational models of cognition underlying expert performance and the difficulties of developing expertlike performance.
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in environmental health physics and toxicology from Purdue University and has 14 years of engineering experience in the energy and software industries and nine years of experience as director of a water resources and environmental engineering research center. Robin Willner is vice president, Global Community Initiatives, for IBM, which she joined in 1994 to design and implement Reinventing Education, a $90 million philanthropic initiative that promotes K–12 school reform through grant partnerships with school districts and states to develop new applications of technology to overcome common barriers to school improvement and raise the level of student achievement.
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