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Appendix B: Brief Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix B: Brief Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 77-84
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S Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University Cynthia Beall's primary research focuses on how populations with different microevolutionary histories adapt to the lifelong environmental stress of high-altitude hypoxia.
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Beardsley helped direct a doctoral-level program in biological education and participated in a NSF GK-12 program matching graduate students in science with K-12 teachers. He taught graduate courses in biology education and educational research, trained pre-service teach ers, and also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in evolution, ecology, botany, and cell biology.
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She chairs the Coalition of Scientific Societies composed of more than 30 scientific and professional societies, which focuses on teaching evolution for all; and she coordinated participation of 16 of these societies in a common activity, the Evolution Thought Trail at the Expo of the 2010 Science and Engineering Festival.
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Dr. Eckstrand also manages a new consortium to develop models of the dynamics of the scientific workforce and handles NIGMS research focused on evolutionary biology, including how pathogens and hosts evolve together; specia tion; and the evolution of complex biological systems.
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Dr. Moran has long taught evolutionary biology to undergraduate students and originated a high school biology research program at Tucson High School.
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Currently, he is principal investigator for the NSF-funded "Introductory Biology Project," which focuses on the undergraduate freshman biology course; he is also co-PI on another NSF project dealing with professional development for high school teachers; and he is a member of several committees of the College Board that are revising advanced placement science courses.
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Dr. Wei recently completed an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Sci ence Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education, where she worked on a wide range of issues in STEM education, focusing primarily on biology education and climate change education.
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