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Appendix C--Biographies of Workshop Speakers, Panelists, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Pages 59-68

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From page 59...
... She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1994, and currently chairs the NAS Koshland Science Museum Advisory Board, cochairs the NAS Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences, and serves on the advisory board for the NAS Division on Earth and Life Studies.
From page 60...
... She also leads the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology group in the National Science Foundation-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. Her research focuses on the intersection between science, media, and policy, with an emphasis on public opinion dynamics in the context of controversial scientific innovations, such as biotechnology, stem cell research, nanotechnology, and nuclear energy.
From page 61...
... She is currently serving as chair of the UC Academic Senate Blue Ribbon Panel on Evaluation of the University of California Online Instruction Pilot Project and UC Online. She has also developed multimedia education programs and managed partnerships with the California and Florida departments of education, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Science Foundation, ABC News Interactive, and various universities, publishers, and software developers.
From page 62...
... The Science subprogram provides support for science that informs decision making in the near term, advancing the strategies guiding the conservation activities of the Foundation. He also provides program support and acts as a liaison for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the Center for Ocean Solutions, and the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program.
From page 63...
... She has received many awards for her research and public engagement work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, the 2011 National Science Foundation Public Service Award, and the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science Early Career Award for Public Engagement in Science. She received her B.S.
From page 64...
... In 2011, the editors at the journal Nature recommended his research as "essential reading for anyone with a passing interest in the climate change debate," and the New Republic highlighted his work as a "fascinating dissection of the shortcomings of climate activism." A frequently invited speaker, he has given lectures on more than three dozen college campuses worldwide and at many other scholarly and professional venues. His consulting experience includes research and analysis on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public- and private-sector clients.
From page 65...
... He provided overall leadership for the college's academic programs at the Corvallis campus and OSU programs at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, for-credit extended education, informal education through the Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Extension Program, and research at OSU's main campus and 11 branch experiment stations throughout the state. He received a Bachelor of Science in agriculture and a Master of Science in entomology from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, and his doctorate in entomology from Rutgers University.
From page 66...
... , including raising awareness about ISE in the broad scientific community, improving the quality of evaluation for education and outreach activities, and facilitating collaborations between science organizations and informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. At the Pacific Science Center, he codirected the Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform, a program to implement a quality K-12 science program in all 295 school districts in Washington State.
From page 67...
... Her career focuses on being a practitioner of science communications, a sustainability leader, and a nonprofit executive. Her experiences are in ocean and environmental science, state and federal environmental policy, environmental consulting, connecting science to policy and management, and nonprofit management.


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