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Appendix C: Brief Biographies of Presenters and Panelists
Appendix C: Brief Biographies of Presenters and Panelists
Pages 85-96
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Alberts is also noted as one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a preeminent textbook in the field now in its fifth edition. For the period 2000 to 2009, he served as the co-chair of the InterAcademy Council, a new organization in Amsterdam governed by the presidents of 15 national academies of sciences and established to provide scientific advice to the world.
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. He has been involved in numerous K-16 education initia tives at the University of Maryland including an on-line Master Program in the Life Sciences for high school biology teachers.
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Her professional service includes work at the local, state, and national levels. She served as co-chair of the education committee and was a member of the executive board of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents and is a past presi dent of the National Association of Biology Teachers.
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A new program known as the HHMI International Student Dissertation Research Fellowship Program has been initiated to support international graduate students during their dissertation research.
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In 1986, he cofounded the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, a national consortium of college and university biology educators devoted to curricular reform across the nation. It promotes quantitative, open-ended problem solving, collaborative learning, peer review, research, and civic engagement/social responsibility.
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Following a fellowship in Science Broadcast Journalism at WGBH-TV, he served as science correspondent for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and helped launch Discovery Channel's Discover Magazine. He served as scientific advisor to NOVA for programs including Judgment Day, and as science editor for the OMNI-MAX films Cocos: Island of Sharks and Coral Reef Adventure, and for several PBS series, including The Secret of Life and The Evolution Project.
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Pennock is professor of history and philosophy of science in Lyman Briggs College, and also holds appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Department of Computer Science, and the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Graduate Program. He is a member of and the Briggs faculty liaison to the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences.
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As the executive director, Reeves-Pepin coordinates all programs at NABT to ensure alignment with NABT's mission to empower teachers and support students. As this relates to evolution education, Reeves-Pepin schedules speakers and presentations at the NABT Professional Development Conference to ensure that evolution and the teaching of evolution are major themes at this event; she provides assistance producing the evolution-themed issue of the journal, The American Biology Teacher; she assists with the NABT Evolution Education Award (sponsored by AIBS and BSCS)
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Taking advantage of her K-12 experiences, she soon initiated teacher professional development workshops and curricu lum development focusing on evolution, paleontology, the geosciences, and their intersection reflected in the biodiversity that we see today. Today she is the project coordinator of three award-winning websites: The Paleontology Portal, Understanding Evolution, and Understanding Science.
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Schwartz has focused on the need to improve health and health care of vulnerable, urban poor populations. Maxine Singer attended the New York City public schools and graduated from Swarthmore College (A.B., 1952, with high honors)
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His natural love of the biological sciences was fully realized in his high school freshman year in his biology class. His teacher, Harvey Underwood, was trained as a forest ecologist and had his students spend a lot of time outside col lecting and identifying insects and leaves.
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96 APPENDIX C Most of her work has used insects, although she also has studied birds. She is interested in communicating science to the public and has written three books for general audiences: Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals, published in 2002; Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are, published in 2007; and Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World, which was released in 2011.
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