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Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Pages 111-118

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From page 111...
... For over 25 years, her research focused on influenza viruses in humans, lower mammals, and birds, investigating such aspects as: important hosts in nature; transmission among species; genetic changes related to disease severity; the molecular basis of cell killing; and new approaches to vaccines. She conducted research at various hospitals and universities, including the Medical College of Virginia, UC Berkeley, St.
From page 112...
... Cope Scholar Award, James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, Linus Pauling Medal, Willard Gibbs Medal, and National Medal of Science. He also received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford University.
From page 113...
... He left ETS in 1993 to join the faculty at University of California, Berkeley, as a professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Statistics, but returned in 2000 to his current position at ETS. He has made significant contributions to the following applications of statistics to social science research, categorical data analysis, social networks, test equating, differential item functioning, test security issues, causal inference in nonexperimental research, and the foundations of item response theory.
From page 114...
... He is known for his distinguished study of the science and application of complex fluids. EARL LEWIS, Ph.D., is provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University.
From page 115...
... She has served on review panels and study sections at NSF, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and private agencies. At UAB she organized the doctoral program in behavioral neuroscience and was a founding member and director of the university-wide interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience.
From page 116...
... Her most important administrative accomplishments include securing funding for the Ronald E McNair Postbaccalaureate Degree, Preparing Future Faculty, Diversity Enhancement, and Ph.D.
From page 117...
... Dr. Spinrad served in various advisory and contributing roles for Harvard, Stanford, MIT, the University of California, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Library of Congress, the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Livermore National Laboratory, EDUCOM, Bell Laboratories and the Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
From page 118...
... 118 APPENDIX A Shakespeare, renaissance drama, and modern British literature. His scholarship has been largely directed toward identifying key psychological patterns that shape the development of Shakespeare's work and, more recently, plausible links between the plays and the life of their author.


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