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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 153-164
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Sherilynn Black is the associate vice provost for Faculty Advancement, a new position designed to work in collaboration with the vice provost for Faculty Advancement at Duke University School of Medicine to create strategic initiatives and implement practices that support faculty development and advancement. She provides leadership in the area of faculty development and success, including mentoring, support for pre-tenure and mid-career faculty, career pathways, 153
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She is currently one of the principal investigators of the Duke Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program referred to as the Duke Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement, which provides extensive mentoring and scientific engagement opportunities for talented and diverse undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Black holds several national appointments relating to faculty development and advancement, including serving on advisory boards, developing strategic initiatives, and holding committee appointments with the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the American Association of Medical Colleges, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the Society for Neuroscience.
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She is involved with several initiatives that support the role of women in STEM, including serving on the American Chemical Society's Women Chemist Committee. In addition to leading STEM education outreach, she is also a practicing STEM professional as an innovation project leader in Dow's Manufacturing & Engineering division.
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Under Mason's leadership, the UI has successfully met current economic challenges through careful planning, strategic prioritization, and increased efficiency. Other major accomplishments during President Mason's tenure have been a student success initiative that has led to increased enrollment and student retention, as well as an expansion of partnership agreements with Iowa's community colleges in order to offer UI degrees to students throughout the state through onsite and distance learning programs.
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After stints as acting chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in 1995 she won appointment as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the largest academic unit on the University of Kansas campus. Mason served as provost of Purdue University from 2001 to 2007, where she was responsible for planning, managing, and reviewing all academic programs at Purdue's West Lafayette campus and four affiliated branch campuses throughout Indiana.
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research universities. Ortega serves or has served on a number of professional association boards and committees, including the boards of the Council of Graduate Schools, the Graduate Record Exam, the National Academies' Committee on the Assessment of the Research Doctorate, the NSF Human Resources Expert Panel, the Education and Human Resources Advisory Committee, North Carolina E-learning Commission, and the University of North Carolina Press.
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In 2018, she became director of state and regional affairs for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Previously, she was an independent science and education policy consultant and founding director of Emerging Leaders in Science and Society (ELISS)
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At Siemens Westinghouse, he conducted and/or managed major research, development, and demonstration programs in the field of advanced materials for various energy conversion systems including steam and gas turbines, coal gasification, and fuel cells. From 1984 to 2000, he was manager of Fuel Cell Technology there, and was responsible for the development of high-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)
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He has also served on many national and international advisory panels including those of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Materials Properties Council, the U.S. Department of Energy, the NATO Advanced Study Institutes and Science for Peace Programs, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Energy Agency, and the European Commission.
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from Princeton University, Yamamoto joined the UCSF faculty in 1976, where he has been an international leader in the investigation of transcriptional regulation by nuclear receptors, which mediate the actions of essential hormones and cellular signals; he uses mechanistic and systems approaches to pursue these problems in pure molecules, cells, and whole organisms. He has led or served on numerous national committees focused on public and scientific policy, public understanding and support of biological research, and science education; he chairs the Coalition for the Life Sciences and sits on the National Research Council Governing Board Executive Committee, serves as vice chair of the National Academy of Medicine's Executive Committee and Council, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
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APPENDIX C 163 biomedical workforce, research funding, and the process of peer review and the policies that govern it at the National Institutes of Health. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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