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1999 (top)

Deborah Loewenberg Ball

Hyman Bass

Robert Watson

Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Lillian C. McDermott

Michael Zeilik

Sheila Tobias

Philip Uri Treisman

2000 (top)

Sandra K. Abell

Cathy Middlecamp

John Etchemendy

Robert Moses

Andrew Gleason

Elaine Seymour

2001 (top)

Norman G. Lederman

Tami S. Martin

Janan Hayes

Patricia L. Perez

James Sandefur

Rose Asera

Jeffery Kovac

2002 (top)

William Yslas Vélez

Susan Wyckoff

Louis M. Gomez

Cathy Kessel

Michael Zeilik

Bruce Crauder

Priscilla Laws

2003 (top)

Kenneth Gerard Boutte, Sr.

Michael Starbird

Marvin Druger

Cathy Kessel

Liping Ma

Audrey B. Champagne

Ramon E. Lopez

2004 (top)

Rodger Bybee

Deborah Hughes Hallett

Peter Facione

James Hiebert

Rhonda Hughes

Pratibha Varma-Nelson

2005 (top)

Jane Butler Kahle

Edward F. Redish

Sybilla Beckmann

Jay Labov

Cathryn A. Manduca

Iris R. Weiss

2006 (top)

Robert L. Kuczkowski

Dennis Davenport

Deborah Loewenberg Ball

Hyman Bass

James Pellegrino

Alice Artzt

Richard J. Shavelson

Alan Sultan

2007 (top)

Richard Duschl

Dylan Wiliam

Kathryn B. Chval

Danny Bernard Martin

Susan L. Forman

Solomon Garfunkel

Donald J. Wink

 

1999 Symposium Series

 

Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan

Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball's work as a researcher and teacher educator is rooted in

practice, drawing directly and indirectly on her experience as a classroom teacher. With

elementary school mathematics as the main context, Ball studies the practice of teaching

and the processes of learning to teach, with a current focus on learning in and from

practice itself. Ball's publications include articles on teacher learning and teacher

education; the role of subject matter knowledge in teaching and learning to teach;

endemic challenges of teaching; and the relations of policy and practice in instructional

reform. She is Associate Editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Teacher

Education, and is a member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, and of the

Commission on Behavioral and Social Science Education. She was a lead author for the

Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics. In 1997, Ball received the Raymond

B. Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research from the American

Educational Research Association.

 

Hyman Bass, University of Michigan (top)

Dr. Hyman Bass' chief fields of research interest are algebraic K-theory, number theory,

geometric methods of group theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematics education. He

has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1981 and of the

National Academy of Sciences since 1982. Bass received the Cole Prize in Algebra from

the American Mathematical Society in 1975, and the Van Amringe Prize from Columbia

University for his book Algebraic K-theory in 1969. In addition to being the author or

co-author of over 75 publications in mathematics, Bass has written articles and given

presentations in the area of mathematics education. He is currently Chair of the National

Research Council's Mathematical Sciences Education Board and of the American

Mathematical Society's Committee on Education. From 1998 to 2002, he will serve as

the President of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction.

 

Robert Watson, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (ret) (top)

Dr. Robert Watson served with the National Science Foundation from 1968 until 1999,

with program and division-level management responsibilities in graduate, undergraduate,

and precollege science, mathematics, and engineering education. During 1983, Watson

served in the White House Science Advisor's Office (OSTP) where he developed a plan

for the Federal role in science education that was approved by the Congress and served as

the basis for the regeneration of NSF education programming. From 1963 to 1968, he

was on the chemistry faculty at Memphis State University. In 1966, Watson became the

first individual to receive an NSF grant focusing on the improvement of education for

minorities.

 

Joan Ferrini-Mundy, formerly at Mathematical Sciences Education Board,

Michigan State University (top)

Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy's research interests are in calculus learning and reform in

mathematics education, K-14. She taught mathematics at Mount Holyoke College in

1982-83, where she co-founded the SummerMath for Teachers program. She joined the

mathematics faculty of the University of New Hampshire in 1983. Ferrini-Mundy served

as a visiting scientist at the National Science Foundation in 1989-91. She served on the

Mathematical Sciences Education Board, and has chaired the AERA Special Interest

Group for Research in Mathematics Education. Ferrini-Mundy has served in a variety of

leadership roles in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She was the

Principal Investigator for NCTM's Recognizing and Recording Reform in Mathematics

Education (R3M) project, chaired the NCTM's Research Advisory Committee, and was a

member of the NCTM Board of Directors. Currently, she chairs the Writing Group for

Standards 2000, the revision of the NCTM Standards.

 

Lillian C. McDermott, University of Washington (top)

Dr. Lillian C. McDermott is Director of the Physics Education Group at the University of

Washington, which engages in research on the learning and teaching of physics, designs

curriculum for mainstream students, conducts programs for the preparation of prospective

and practicing teachers of physics and physical science, and conducts TA training

seminars and professional development workshops for college and university faculty.

The group developed the curriculum Physics by Inquiry and is currently developing

Tutorials in Introductory Physics . McDermott is a Fellow of the American Physical

Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been a

Councillor of the American Physical Society and a member of the APS Board. She

received the American Association of Physics Teachers' Distinguished Service Citation

in 1981, and the AAPT's Robert A. Millikan Lecture Award for her contributions to

physics education research in 1990. In 1983, McDermott received the Seattle Urban

League's Affirmative Action Award for her work in helping minority students succeed in

physics.

 

Michael Zeilik, University of New Mexico (top)

Dr. Michael Zeilik's research activities have focused on magnetic activity cycles of sunlike

stars, starbirth, astronomy in the historic and prehistoric Pueblo world, and a

cognitive approach to teaching science. He has published four books, over 100

professional articles, and given over 200 talks to professional and lay audiences. Zeilik's

teaching interests are introductory courses for the novice, non-science major student, and

astronomy education research at the university. He has been supported by grants from

the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Exxon Educational Foundation, and the

Slipher Fund of the National Academy of Sciences for innovations in astronomy

education, astronomy for the general public, and astronomy workshops for in-service

teachers. In 1998-99, he has an appointment as a Fellow with the National Institute for

Science Education, working on issues of classroom assessment.

 

Sheila Tobias, Author and Lecturer (top)

Ms. Sheila Tobias, a lecturer on education reform and writer for the Research

Corporation, has made a science and an art of promoting curricular reform from the

outside. Educated in history and literature and having served as a university.

 

Philip Uri Treisman, University of Texas at Austin (top)
Dr. Philip Uri Treisman received the 1987 Charles Dana Award for Pioneering
Achievement in American Higher Education and was named a MacArthur Fellow in
1992. In 1989, Newsweek selected him as one of 25 Americans on the leading edge of
innovation, one of three in education. His PhD thesis, A Study of the Mathematics
Performance of Black Students at the University of California, Berkeley, provided the
theoretical basis for supplementary workshops for calculus courses. His insights and the
example of his program at Berkeley spurred the national growth of such workshops.
Treisman's later work with high school teachers in California and Texas demonstrated
again that he is one of the leading experts on the development of programs aimed at
increasing minority participation in mathematics. He is an active member of many
national committees, advisory boards, and commissions concerned with mathematics
education and mathematical and scientific manpower.

 

 

2000 Symposium Series

 

Sandra K. Abell, Professor of Science Education, School of Education, Purdue

University, and President-Elect, National Association for Research in Science

Teaching (NARST) (top)

Sandra K. Abell is Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Purdue

University, where she teaches future and practicing elementary science teachers and

graduate students in science education. Abell’s research focuses on the process of

becoming an elementary science teacher, from the teacher preparation program into the

beginning years of teaching, and throughout one’s teaching career. Her research uses

methods of naturalistic inquiry and typically involves collaboration with school-based

colleagues. Abell has received numerous teaching awards from Purdue, the Association

for the Education of Teaching in Science, and the National Science Teachers Association.

She currently is President-Elect of the National Association for Research in Science

Teaching.

 

Cathy Middlecamp, Director, Chemistry Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-

Madison. (top)

Catherine Middlecamp is the Director of the Chemistry Learning Center at the University

of Wisconsin-Madison. Over the past 20 years, she has designed, supervised and taught

in a number of programs for students under-represented in the sciences, both at the

collegiate and pre-collegiate levels. Currently, she teaches general chemistry and a

graduate seminar on teaching, and is serving on several national advisory boards,

including “Women and Scientific Literacy” at the American Association of Colleges and

Universities, the task force for Women and Diversity at Project Kaleidoscope, and

Montana’s Rural Women and Girls in Science Project. She is the editor of a web-based

discovery based laboratory project in Puerto Rico, and is a co-author of the recently

published Chemistry in Context, 3/e, a project of the American Chemical Society.

Middlecamp did her undergraduate studies at Cornell University (1968–72) graduating

Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction in all subjects. She was awarded a Danforth

Fellowship for graduate study and earned her doctorate degree in chemistry at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972–76).

 

John Etchemendy, Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Stanford

University (top)

John Etchemendy is a Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stanford

University. He is the author or co-author of seven books in logic, and co-developer of six

pieces of educational software for use in logic instruction, for which he shared the 1997

Educom Medal with his collaborator, Jon Barwise of Indiana University. Their most

recent instructional package, Language, Proof and Logic, consists of a six hundred page

textbook, four pieces of instructional software, and an Internet-based grading service.

Etchemendy was the chair of Stanford’s Presidential Commission on Technology in

Teaching and Learning, and is a member of Stanford’s Learning Technologies Board. He

was formerly Senior Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.

 

Robert Moses, The Algebra Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts (top)

Robert Moses is a distinguished political and educational leader. He is a graduate of

Hamilton College and received a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Harvard University

in 1957. As a prominent leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Moses is especially

known for his activities of “Freedom Summer,” 1964. He has taught secondary school

mathematics in both New York City and Tanzania. In 1982, Moses was awarded a

McArthur Fellowship, which he used to volunteer full-time in the Cambridge schools.

He developed the Algebra Project—materials to teach pre-algebra in Middle School. This

innovative project is based on a thorough analysis of the mathematical and pedagogical

difficulties in teaching elementary algebra. In particular, Moses’s analysis of the

difficulties in passing from intuitive to formal language is rooted in his study of logic.

The program balances the abstract with an understanding of African-American youth.

The Algebra Project now reaches students at more than 15 sites across the country

including those in Boston, Chicago, the Mississippi Delta, and Oakland.

 

Andrew Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy,

Emeritus, Harvard University (top)

Andrew Gleason joined the Harvard faculty in 1950 and continued there until 1992 when

he became Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, Emeritus. He is

best known for his work on Hilbert’s fifth problem, measures on the closed subspaces of

Hilbert space, and Banach algebras. He has been interested in mathematics education

since 1959 when he chaired the advisory committee of the School Mathematics Study

Group. He has spoken at several conferences on the teaching of calculus and is one of the

members of the Calculus Consortium based at Harvard.

 

Elaine Seymour, Director, Ethnography and Evaluation Research, Bureau of

Sociological Research, University of Colorado, Boulder (top)

Elaine Seymour is the Director of Ethnography and Evaluation Research, Bureau of

Sociological Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, a position she has held since

1989. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, a M.A. in

Education from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and a B.A. with Honors in

Economics and Political Science from Keele University, England. Her academic honors

include Doctoral Fellowships from the National Institute of Mental Health and the

University of Colorado, Teaching Excellence Awards, and a Fulbright Teaching

Scholarship. Seymour’s recent work in assessment includes the development of a

prototype Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)--a web-site of classroom

assessment tools for science, mathematics and engineering faculty engaged in

pedagogical innovation, and the development of a Student Assessment of their Learning

Gains classroom evaluation instrument.

 

2001 Symposium Series

 

Norman G. Lederman, formerly Professor of Science and Mathematics Education

and Director of the Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education

at Oregon State University, Illinois Institute of Technology (top)

Norman G. Lederman is currently Professor of Science and Mathematics Education and

Director of the Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education at

Oregon State University. He has taught the full range of courses (Masters and Doctoral)

in secondary science education. Lederman's research and scholarship focus primarily on

the development of students' and teachers' conceptions of the nature of science and

scientific inquiry. A related area of research interest has included preservice and

inservice teachers' knowledge structures of subject matter and pedagogy, pedagogical

content knowledge, and teachers' concerns and beliefs. His publications span research

and teacher oriented journals including, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching,

Journal of Science Teacher Education, Science and Education, Science Education, School

Science and Mathematics, the Science Teacher, The Oregon Science Teacher, NARST

Monograph: Research Matters to the Science Teacher, and AETS Yearbooks on

pedagogical content knowledge and nature of science. In addition, he is a consistent

presenter at the National Meetings of AERA, AETS, NARST, and NSTA.

 

Tami S. Martin, Illinois State University (top)

Tami S. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Illinois State University. Her

interests include students' understanding of geometric proof and secondary teacher

development. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator (along with Sharon Soucy

McCrone) for a three-year, NSF-funded research project entitled, An Investigation of

Pedagogical Factors Influencing Students' Understanding of Geometric Proof. Recent

publications include, Calculus Students' Ability to Solve Geometric Related-Rates

Problems and Performance-Based Assessment of Secondary Mathematics Student

Teachers (co-authored with Roger Day). She is also co-authoring a book chapter with

John Dossey and Chancey O. Jones focused on an analysis of TIMSS (Third International

Mathematics and Science Study) data. This chapter will be entitled Using Viking-Codes

for Analyzing Student Constructed Responses in Mathematics.

 

Janan Hayes, Merced College (top)

Janan M. Hayes has been a Professor of Chemistry and Physical Science at California

community colleges since 1971, first at American River College and now at Merced

College, Merced, CA. In that time span, she spent 12 years as Dean of Science at

Coaumnes River College and Vice-President of Instruction at Merced College. Hayes is

Co-Principal Investigator of Project Inclusion and has served as project director of

various efforts to improve the education and training of science-math teachers and

correctional officers (prison guards) in the California Department of Corrections. She is

a member of the Council of the American Chemical Society (with numerous national

governance committee assignments), the Two-Year College Chemistry Committee and

the California Association of Chemistry Teachers. Hayes has made a number of

presentations at local, regional and national meetings of these organizations and

organized and presided over several symposia. She has served on various NSF review

panels. Hayes earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1971.

 

Patricia L. Perez, Mt. San Antonio College (top)

Patricia L. Perez has been a Professor of Chemistry at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut,

CA, a public two-year, community college, since 1968, serving as department

chairperson from 1989 to 1993. She is Co-Principal Investigator of Project Inclusion, a

NSF-sponsored effort to focus student attention on the contributions of various

underrepresented groups to the field of chemistry. In addition, she is a consortium

participant in the Molecular Science Education Project, a UCLA-CSUF-community

college alliance for systematic curricular reform. Perez is a member of the American

Chemical Society, the Two-Year College Chemistry Committee and the California

Association of Chemistry Teachers. She has made numerous presentations at local,

regional and national meetings of these organizations and organized and presided over

several symposia. Additionally, Perez has served on various NSF review panels and

workshops. She earned an MS in Chemistry from UCLA in 1968.

 

James Sandefur, Georgetown University (top)

James Sandefur has a Ph.D. from Tulane University and is a Professor of Mathematics at

Georgetown University. Sandefur was the Principle Investigator on three National

Science Foundation grants, the first being for summer teacher enhancement workshops

for teachers in the Washington, DC area, the second being a teacher leadership institute,

and the third being a materials development grant for college remedial mathematics

courses. He is the author of two textbooks, Discrete Dynamical Systems: Theory and

Applications and Discrete Dynamical Modeling, and has written numerous research and

expository mathematics articles. Sandefur was on the 6-8 grade writing team for the

NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. He was a Program Officer

with the National Science Foundation in the Instructional Materials Development

Program. Sandefur is the recipient of the Georgetown University Sony Award for

Excellence in Science Education, 1994 and 1997.

 

Rose Asera, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (top)

Dr. Rose Asera worked with Professor Uri Treisman at UC Berkeley on the national

dissemination of the award-winning Emerging Scholars Program. In 1991-92, Asera was

a Fulbright Fellow and taught research methods at the National Institute of Education at

Kyambogo, Uganda and subsequently worked with the UNICEF on development of

community health education materials. From1995-1999 she was the Director of Research

and Evaluation at the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Asera

is presently a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of

Teaching, and is working on a study of teacher education.

 

Jeffrey Kovac, University of Tennessee at Knoxville (top)

Jeffrey Kovac is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He

received a B.A. degree from Reed College and a Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. from

Yale University. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before joining the

faculty of the University of Tennessee in 1976. Kovac is a theoretical chemist with

interests in dynamics of polymer chains, rubber elasticity, the glass transition, structure

and thermodynamics of liquids, interfacial systems, and the structure and formation of

coal. He also carries out work in history and philosophy of science, scientific ethics, and

chemical education. He is a faculty associate of the University of Tennessee Center for

Applied and Professional Ethics and is a Director of the Tennessee Governor's School for

the Sciences.

 

2002 Symposium Series

 

William Yslas Vélez, University of Arizona (top)

William Yslas Vélez was born in Tucson, Arizona and grew up in the "nurturing

embrace" of the Spanish-speaking part of the town in a home in which "education was

heavily emphasized" by his Mexican born parents.

Vélez earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Arizona,

completing his doctoral degree in mathematics in 1975. He has been a faculty member of

the Department of Mathematics at The University of Arizona since 1977. His

mathematical research interests have been in number theory and algebra. He has held

positions at various military labs, applying mathematics to solve problems that have

arisen in military communication systems. As a Program Officer at the National Science

Foundation, Vélez directed the Algebra and Number Theory Program. Vélez was

awarded the National Science Foundation Director's Equal Opportunity Achievement

Award in 1993, and a White House President’s Award for Excellence in Science,

Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 1997.

Vélez is a Founding Member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native

Americans in Science and served as President of this organization from 1994-96. His

most recent efforts have been directed to increasing the opportunities for Hispanic

students in mathematics based careers. From 1994 -99 he served as the Director of the

NSF funded Southwest Regional Institute in Mathematical Sciences, an institute

dedicated to the integration of research and education.

 

Susan Wyckoff, Arizona State University (top)

Susan Wyckoff received her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College and her Ph.D. from Case

Western Reserve University in physics and astronomy. She joined the physics faculty at

Arizona State University in 1979 and served as department chair from 1990-93. She has

held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, Tel-Aviv University, the Royal

Greenwich Observatory, Ohio State University, the University of Heidelberg and Mt

Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories. From 1982-1990 she directed the International

Halley Watch, a NASA project to study Halley's Comet. From 1994-2000 she directed

the Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in Preparation of Teachers (ACEPT), an effort

by eleven institutions to improve the undergraduate teaching of science and mathematics.

She now directs the Electronic Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of

Teachers (ECEPT), and co-directs the Arizona Teachers Coalition (AzTEC). Her current

research interests include star formation, origins of planetary systems and physics

education.

Her publications include two books, several book chapters and more than 200 refereed

journal articles, popular articles and conference proceedings. She has supervised over 20

postdoctorals and graduate students in physics education or astrophysics, and conducts

workshops on physics teaching.

 

Louis M. Gomez, Northwestern University (top)

Louis M. Gomez received a BA. in Psychology from the State University of New York at

Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California at

Berkeley. Gomez is one of the co-directors of the NSF-sponsored Center for Learning

Technologies in Urban Schools, a partnership made up of Chicago Public Schools,

Detroit Public Schools, University of Michigan, and Northwestern University. The

Center is dedicated to collaborative research and development with urban schools that

will bring the current state-of-the-art in computing and networking technologies into

pervasive use in schools to integrally support science and other curriculum. Gomez's

primary interest is in working with school communities to create curriculum that supports

school reform while connecting schools to broad communities of practice beyond school.

Prior to joining the Faculty at Northwestern Gomez was director of Human-Computer

Systems Research at Bellcore in Morristown New Jersey. Over the last several years he

has also pursued an active research program investigating techniques that improve human

use of information retrieval systems and techniques which aid in the acquisition of

complex computer-based skills.

 

Cathy Kessel, Mathematics Education Consultant (top)

Cathy Kessel works as a mathematics education consultant. She received her Ph.D. in

mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has taught mathematics at

various colleges and universities. She has worked as a researcher in mathematics

education at the University of California and the University of Melbourne. Kessel edited

Liping Ma’s Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, was an additional writer

on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles and Standards for School

Mathematics, and was the lead editor for the CBMS report The Mathematical Education

of Teachers. Her publications include articles in the MER Newsletter, the AWM

Newsletter, Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education, and the Encyclopedia of

Gender. She and Ma are working on an elementary mathematics textbook.

 

Michael Zeilik, University of New Mexico (top)

Michael Zeilik earned his A. B. in Physics with honors at Princeton University and his M.

A. and Ph. D. in Astronomy at Harvard University. He has been a Woodrow Wilson

Fellow, a National Science Foundation Fellow, and a Smithsonian Astrophysical

Observatory Predoctoral Fellow. As a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the

University of New Mexico, he has been named a Presidential Lecturer, the highest award

for all-around performance by a faculty member. In his teaching, he specializes in

introductory courses for the novice, non-science major student. He is a pioneer in

astronomy education research at the university level, and has been supported by grants

from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Exxon Educational Foundation, and

the Slipher Fund of the National Academy of Sciences for innovations in astronomy

education, astronomy for the general public, and astronomy workshops for in-service

teachers.

Zeilik's research activities have recently focused on astronomy in the historic and

prehistoric Pueblo world and a cognitive approach to teaching science. He has served as

the Director of UNM's Graduate Centers in Los Alamos and Santa Fe. In 1998-99, he

was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow with the National Institute for Science

Education. Zeilik has authored four books used internationally: Astronomy: The

Evolving Universe (8th edition, Wiley, 1997), Astronomy: The Cosmic Perspective with

J. Gaustad (2nd edition, Wiley, 1990), Conceptual Astronomy (1st edition, Wiley, 1993),

and Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics with S. Gregory (4th edition, Saunders,

1998). The 8th edition of Evolving Universe won a 1997 Texty Award from the Text and

Academic Authors Association.

 

Bruce Crauder, Oklahoma State University (top)

Bruce Crauder was educated at Haverford College and Columbia University, where he

completed his PhD in 1981, specializing in algebraic geometry. Since then he has taught

at the University of Utah, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North

Carolina, and Colorado State University. He has been at Oklahoma State University

since 1986 where he serves as Associate Dean for Instruction as well as Professor of

Mathematics. Crauder has had an abiding interest in math education, particularly for

beginning college students. With two colleagues, he has spent several years developing

Mathematical Functions and Their Uses, a course and textbook in mathematics modeling

at the College Algebra level.

 

Priscilla Laws, Dickenson College (top)

Priscilla Laws received her bachelor's degree from Reed College in 1961 and a Ph.D.

from Bryn Mawr College in theoretical nuclear physics in 1966. She has taught in the

Department of Physics and Astronomy at Pennsylvania's Dickinson College since 1965.

Laws has published numerous books on the health effects of medical and dental x-rays,

the impact of energy use on the environment, and the uses of experiential approaches and

computers to enhance learning in physics. As part of the Workshop Physics Project, that

she initiated in 1986, she has developed curricular materials, apparatus and computerbased

software and hardware for students at the high school and college levels.

Laws has received awards for software design and curriculum innovation in the sciences

from EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL, Computers in Physics, the Sears-Roebuck Foundation, and

the Merck Foundation. In 1993, she received the Dana Foundation Award for Pioneering

Achievement in Education with Ronald K. Thornton and in 1996, the American

Association of Physics Teachers bestowed the 1996 Robert A. Millikan Medal to Laws

for notable and creative contributions to the teaching of physics. She has been a principal

investigator on a number of curriculum development projects funded by FIPSE and NSF.

She has served on the Board of Directors of FIPSE and currently is a member of the

Executive Board of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Laws and five of her

colleagues are currently involved in a NSF Teacher Enhancement project to conduct

summer institutes, both at Dickinson College and the University of Oregon, for high

school teachers who want to conform to new national and local science education

standards.

 

2003 Symposium Series

 

Kenneth Gerard Boutte, Sr.

Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Xavier University of Louisiana (top)

Kenneth Boutte is the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor

of Biology at Xavier University of Louisiana. He earned a Ph.D. in Immunoparasitology

from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. He was the third African American

in the department to earn a Ph.D. and the first African American in the department to earn

a Ph.D. in the area of immunoparasitology.

Boutte’s research interests have been in the host-parasite relationships of tapeworms and

in the determination of the genetic sequence for the Trypanosoma gene which codes for

trypanosome alternative oxidase as a target for chemotherapy. He was a Scholar in

Residence at New York University in 1991 and 1992. He has served on the New Orleans

Mosquito and Termite Control Board, the National Institutes of Health BRIDGES Grant

Review Panel, the Higher Education Advisory Group for the National Educational Goals

Panel, the Chancellor's Council for Tulane University’s School of Medicine, and the

Board of Directors for the Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair.

Boutte was the founder and director of the Ernest E. Just Pre-Graduate Scholars Program

at Xavier, which was significant in increasing the number of science, and mathematics

students who entered graduate school. He is involved with Xavier’s Pre-Medical

Program which is recognized as the leading producer in the nation of African American

medical students. He is also involved and contributes to Xavier’s Model Institution of

Excellence program, a National Science Foundation funded program of $12.3 million

which includes increasing the number of Xavier science, engineering, and mathematics

(SEM) students who enter graduate school.

 

Michael Starbird

Distinguished Teacher Professor of Mathematics

University of Texas at Austin (top)

Michael Starbird is the University Distinguished Teaching Professor in Mathematics at

The University of Texas at Austin. In 1974, he received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics

from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and joined the faculty of the Department of

Mathematics of The University of Texas at Austin. He has taken leaves from UT Austin

to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of

California, San Diego, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He

served as Associate Dean in the College of Natural Sciences from 1989 to 1997.

Starbird is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at UT. His many

teaching awards include the Minnie Stevens Piper Professorship, awarded annually to ten

professors from any subject at any college or university in the state of Texas; the Jean

Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the oldest teaching award at UT and awarded

to one professor each year; the Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award; and the Friar

Society Centennial Teaching Fellowship, awarded to one professor at UT annually.

In 2000, co-author Edward B. Burger and he published The Heart of Mathematics: An

invitation to effective thinking which makes great ideas in mathematics accessible and fun

for liberal arts students. The textbook won a 2001 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award.

 

Marvin Druger

Professor of Biology and Chair of the Department of Science Teaching

Syracuse University (top)

Marvin Druger is Professor of Biology and Chair of the Department of Science Teaching

at Syracuse University. He is former President of the National Science Teachers

Association (NSTA), the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science (AETS),

and current President of the Society for College Science Teaching (SCST). In addition to

his numerous publications on quality science teaching, Druger has received, among other

awards, the Robert H. Carleton Award for National Leadership in Science Education, the

NSTA Distinguished Service Award, and the Gustav Ohaus Award for Innovations in

College Science Teaching. He is most proud of having taught the Introductory Biology

sequence at Syracuse University for the past 40 years, estimating that he has touched the

lives of more than 60,000 college students.

 

Cathy Kessel, Mathematics

Education Consultant

Berkeley, California (top)

Cathy Kessel is a mathematics education consultant based in Berkeley, California. She

received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has

taught mathematics at various colleges and universities. She has worked as a researcher

in mathematics education at the University of California and the University of

Melbourne. Kessel edited Liping Ma’s Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics,

was an additional writer on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles

and Standards for School Mathematics, and was the lead editor for the CBMS report The

Mathematical Education of Teachers. Her publications include articles in the MER

Newsletter, the AWM Newsletter, Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education, and the

Encyclopedia of Gender. She and Ma are working on an elementary mathematics

textbook.

 

Liping Ma,

Senior Scholar

The Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching (top)

Liping Ma is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching.

Her teaching career started when, as a teenager in rural China, she was asked to teach

elementary school. During her seven years as an elementary teacher she taught all five

grades of elementary school. Later she became the principal of the school.

She received a Masters degree in education from East China Normal University and

became an assistant research professor at Shanghai Research Institution for Higher

Education. Her continued interest in education led her to graduate study at Michigan

State University where she worked as a graduate assistant on the study that inspired her

dissertation. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford

University.

As a McDonnell post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley she

revised her Ph.D. dissertation into the book Knowing and Teaching Elementary

Mathematics.

 

Audrey B. Champagne

Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Educational Theory and Practice

University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) (top)

Audrey B. Champagne is a Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and

Practice in the School of Education and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry in

the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New

York (SUNY). She is co-principal investigator of a National Science Foundation funded

Local Systemic Initiative titled Assessment in the Service of Learning.

Champagne is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and

has served on the boards of the National Science Teachers Association and the National

Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). She was President of NARST

in 1997 and received the NARST Distinguished Researcher Award in 2002.

Champagne's activities in the assessment of science include serving on the National

Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Science Advisory Committee, the U.S.

Committee for the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and the

Frameworks Panel for TIMSS 2003. She has been an advisor on the development of the

test frameworks and items for the NAEP, TIMSS, and TIMSS-R Science, participated in

setting the proficiency levels for NAEP Science, and was a member of the National

Center for Education Statistics NAEP Validity Studies Committee.

Champagne was active in the development of the National Research Council of the

National Academy of Science, and the Engineering and Medicine' s National Science

Education Standards. She served as chair of the Assessment Working Group of the

National Research Council's Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment

and was one of a team of five individuals responsible for drafting the final standards

document.

 

Ramon E. Lopez

C. Sharp Cook Distinguished Professor of Physics

University of Texas at El Paso, and

Co-Director for Education, Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, an NSF

Science and Technology Center (top)

Ramon E. Lopez is the C. Sharp Cook Distinguished Professor in the Department of

Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, and is the Co-Director for Education for the

Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM), a Science and Technology

Center funded by the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American

Physical Society and was awarded the 2002 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service.

Lopez's current research focuses on magnetospheric storms and substorms, and making

detailed quantitative comparisons between the results of global 3-D MHD simulations

and observations during actual events. His activities in science education include serving

currently as a member the National Research Council's Committee on Undergraduate

Science Education, and on the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Committee on

Education and Human Resources. He chaired the AGU's Space Physics and Aeronomy's

(SPA) Education Committee, and was a member of the SPA Public Information

Committee. He also serves on the APS Committee on Minorities in Physics and the

Executive Committee of the Forum on Education, and on the Board of Directors of

SACNAS.

Lopez worked with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland to help implement

a hands-on science program in elementary and middle grades. He was Co-PI on a

program to organize a series of workshops on science education reform for space

scientists, and was the Co-Director of the Electric Space project that produced a major

(4000 sq. ft.) travelling museum exhibition about the space environment. As Director of

Education and Outreach at the American Physical Society, he was responsible for the

Society's education programs, including the Teacher-Scientist Alliance Institute to

mobilize scientists in support of systemic reform of science education across the country.

Lopez is the co-author of a recently released popular book on space weather entitled

Storms from the Sun, published by Joseph Henry Press, the tradebook arm of the National

Academy Press.

 

2004 Symposium Series

 

Rodger Bybee

Executive Director, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (top)

Rodger Bybee became Executive Director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

(BSCS) in 1999 after serving four years as Executive Director of the National Research

Council's Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (CSMEE), in

Washington, D.C. As Associate Director of BSCS between 1992-1995, Bybee

participated in the development of the National Science Education Standards. Bybee has

been the principal investigator at BSCS for four NSF programs: an elementary school

program entitled Science for Life and Living: Integrating Science, Technology, and

Health, a middle school program titled Middle School Science & Technology, a high

school biology program titled BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, and a college program

titled Biological Perspectives. Bybee has written widely. He is co-author of a leading

textbook titled Teaching Secondary School Science: Strategies for Developing Scientific

Literacy and, most recently authored the book Achieving Scientific Literacy: From

Purposes to Practices. In 1998, he was awarded the National Science Teachers

Association's Distinguished Service to Science Education Award. In 2001, he was

awarded the first Education Award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences

(AIBS).

 

Deborah Hughes Hallett

Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona (top)

Deborah Hughes Hallett is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and

Adjunct Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. With

Andrew M. Gleason at Harvard University, she organized the Calculus Consortium based

at Harvard, which brought together faculty from a wide variety of schools to work on

undergraduate curricular issues. She is actively involved in discussions about the

teaching of undergraduate mathematics at the national and international level and is an

author of several college level mathematics texts. She recently completed work on a

report for the National Academy of Science's Committee on Advanced Study in

American High Schools and is a member of the Committee on Mutual Concerns of the

Mathematical Association of America (MAA). In 1998 and 2002 she was co-chair of

International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics in Greece, attended by several

hundred faculty from some 50 countries. She established programs for master's students

at the Kennedy School of Government, precalculus, and quantitative reasoning courses

(with Andrew Gleason), and courses for economics majors. She was awarded the Louise

Hay Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and elected a fellow of

the American Association for the Advancement of Science for contributions to

mathematics education. She won the three teaching prizes given at Harvard University.

 

Peter Facione

Provost, Loyola University Chicago (top)

Peter Facione became the Provost of Loyola University Chicago in July 2002. He is a

board member of the American Association of College's and University's Project on

Health and Higher Education. In 2000 he served as a member of the American Council

of Education's President's Task Force on Teacher Education. In 1999 he was the national

president of the American Conference of Academic Deans. Since 1986 he has been a

Senior Research Associate and the CEO of the California Academic Press LLC.

Facione's research interests are in cognitive heuristics and building thinking leadership

teams, and he is nationally and internationally known for his work on the definition and

measurement of those skills and habits of mind that are at the fore of human decision

making and professional judgment, what academics often call critical thinking. He has

been a consultant on his work on decision-making, critical thinking, and collaborative

leadership for the US Government, Los Alamos National Labs, several state education

agencies, private industry, and professional associations. Among his research

publications are California Critical Thinking Skills Test, the California Thinking

Disposition Inventory, the Test of Everyday Reasoning, the California Measure of Mental

Motivation, the Professional Judgment Rating Form, and the California Reasoning

Appraisal.

 

James Hiebert

Robert J. Bar