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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Symposium Speakers and Moderators
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Symposium Speakers and Moderators
Pages 95-116
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She currently serves on the Center for Community College Student Engagement National Advisory Board, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning Advisory Council (Chair) , NASEM Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education, The Presidents' Roundtable (vice convenor)
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In 2019, she received the N ational Science Board's Public Service Medal and joined the board of directors of the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation. From 2013 to 2020, she served as dean of the faculty of arts and sciences where she oversaw all academic, financial, and administration aspects.
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Her administrative work has included recruitment and retention efforts to prepare students and faculty from diverse backgrounds for academic, professional, and personal success. She has conducted research on holistic review in graduate admissions and launched a competency-based professional development initiative that uses microcredentials to recognize graduate students' achievements.
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This work also led to the creation of BrainLeap Technologies, a company that seeks to make attention training games broadly available. Chukoskie also has more than 10 years of experience in the science of learning through her partici pation in the National Science Foundation-funded Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center and her use of innovative active learning methods honed while teaching at Minerva Schools.
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Rufus Glasper is president and chief executive officer of the League for Innovation in the Community College, an international nonprofit organization that strives to cultivate innovation in the Community College space, advance the community college field, and make a positive difference for students and communities. He is the chancellor emeritus of the Maricopa Community Colleges, one of the nation's largest multicollege community college systems.
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Undergraduate researchers in his lab, the Culturally Relevant Computing Lab, investigate research problems centered on creating innovative computing technologies to solve cultural problems and issues. Applications of his research include robotics, avatars, and video games.
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He is committed to helping SNHU to create a new, scalable model for higher education and wants to create a sustainable model that provides affordable, engaging learning experiences that help produce employees ready to contribute to companies. Prior to joining SNHU, he was a faculty member at MIT, where he won the MIT Baker Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the MIT Smith Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Student Life.
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Her primary interest centers on postsecondary access and success for minoritized women and men in STEM fields. She has conducted research in several areas including the relationship between financial aid and STEM outcomes, the role of 4-year Minority-Serving Institutions and
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with Highest Honors degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cathy Manduca is director of the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College, where she leads work to improve education guiding projects to completion, developing new directions, raising funds, and manag ing staff.
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Matthews is the director of STEM learning innovation and associate provost for inclusive workforce development at Wayne State University, and a thought leader in STEM education and engagement, organizational equity and inclusion, and informal, community-driven learning. She is noted for her skill in bringing diverse voices into common conversation and has been recognized by Crain's Business as one of Michigan's 100 Most Influential Women.
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In this role, he advanced the President's and department's Community College agenda through stra tegic partnerships across federal agencies and with national stakeholders. He also served as president of North Seattle College, vice president of student services at South Seattle College, assistant dean of student services at Green River Community College (where he was awarded an Exemplary Leadership Award by the Chair Academy)
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She has served as a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee member, helping to co-author and disseminate a 2019 report on the contributions of minority-serving institutions to the science workforce titled Minority Serving Institutions: America's Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce. Her current research is funded by more than $10 million in grants from the National Science Foundation to build equitable environments in geosciences and computing, raise Latinx attainment in STEM fields, and strengthen STEM capacity in HSIs.
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, that is building a new model of postsecondary education through an inclusive, integrated, interdisciplinary approach to socially directed science and technology education, research, and entrepreneurship. Ortiz has been active in shaping the national and international dialog on higher education and has spoken at the National Science Foundation; the National Institutes of Health; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the United Nations; the League of European Research Universities (a network of 23 leading European research universities)
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She previously served as president of Cumberland County College in New Jersey and interim president of MassBay Community College. In her career in higher education, Salomon-Fernández has served at large and mediumsized selective private and public universities, as well as open-access colleges in urban, suburban, and rural settings in the United States.
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She r etired from Lockheed Martin as vice president and general manager of the Civil Space business where she had executive responsibility for national space programs relating to human space flight and space science missions, including planetary, solar, astrophysical, and Earth remote sensing for civil government agencies. These major programs included the Orion Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle, Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, GOES-R weather satellites, Juno, GRAIL, MAVEN, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars O dyssey, and OSIRIS-REx planetary missions, and the company's nuclear space power programs.
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Susan Singer is the vice president for academic affairs and provost at R ollins College and a professor in the Department of Biology. Immediately prior to joining Rollins, she was the director for the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation and coordinated 14 federal agencies in implementing the undergraduate strategic objectives of the first Federal STEM Education 5-Year Strategic Plan.
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Her research spans the fields of artificial intelligence, programming languages, and engineering and computer science education. She is a frequent speaker at educational conferences on work including pioneering curricular applications of inexpensive robotics and a curriculum for introductory computer science.
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Talanquer has been honored with several awards, such as the Early-Career Teaching Award, the Five Star Teaching Award, Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award, and the Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize in Teaching. He has also been recognized with the James Flack Norris Award for the Outstanding Teaching of Chemistry and the Distinguished Achievement in Science Education Award.
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Will Tyson is the associate professor of sociology at the University of South Florida. His research examines interpersonal and structural influences on STEM education and career pathways out of high schools, community colleges, and 4-year universities.
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Van is one of the Idea Competition winners for the Symposium on Imagining the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education. Suzanne L
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During this work, she was named as a National Academies Biology Education Mentor for 14 consecutive years. She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the Elizabeth Jones Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education from the Genetics Society of America.
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