• February 7, 2003
Roosevelt University
• March 14, 2003
Rush Medical College        
• April 25, 2003
Chicago State University                                                              Directions to Chicago State

• Keynote talks by national leaders in education, mathematics, and science, and breakout sessions with the speakers

• Breakout sessions highlighting exemplary practices, innovative projects, and research by Chicago area faculty

• Discussion groups on issues of teaching and learning mathematics and science, and the mathematics and science preparation of teachers

• Networking within and across disciplines.

Friday, February 7, 2003

Roosevelt University

• Kenneth Gerard Boutte, Sr.

Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Xavier University of Louisiana

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

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.

Friday, March 14, 2003
Rush Medical College

• Marvin Druger,

Professor of Biology and Chair of the Department of Science Teaching, Syracuse University

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

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

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.

Friday, April 25, 2003
Chicago State University

• Audrey B. Champagne,

Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)

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

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.

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Sponsored by the Chicago Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation.

Partially supported by the Illinois Board of Higher Educatio;, the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Sciences and Mathematics, Roosevelt University; Rush Medical College of Rush University; and the Department of Chemistry and Physics, Chicago State University.
 

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