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Dr. Marcel Agueros
Marcel Agueros has a longstanding interest in stellar endpoints. His research career began with radio observations of pulsars and work on the radio expansion of the remnant Cassiopeia A. He is now leading searches for isolated neutron stars and for millisecond pulsar companions to low-mass white dwarfs, and is also involved in X-ray studies of other remnants. Much of Marcel's current work exploits the information gleaned from correlations of data from the optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey with that from surveys at other wavelengths. Marcel held a NASA Harriett Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship while at the University of Washington, and is now an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University.
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Dr. Roberto Aguilar
Dr. Roberto M. Aguilar is a first-generation Mexican-American Neuroendocrinologist. Dr. Aguilar comes from a large Mexican-American family whose roots go back to Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico. Dr. Aguilar obtain his B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 1997. Influenced by SACNAS’ mentorship, he received his Ph. D. in Biology with an emphasis in Neuroscience from UTSA in 2006 under the guidance of Dr. Luis S. Haro. Dr. Aguilar is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center in the University of California, Irvine under the guidance of Dr. Oswald Steward. Dr. Aguilar’s future research interests include neuronal survival and neuronal regeneration of spinal cord neurons using spinal cord injury models.
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Dr. Nancy Aguilar-Roca
Nancy Aguilar-Roca earned her PhD in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. After completing her postdoctoral work in comparative physiology and genomics, Nancy has taken a position in a curriculum development program at UC Irvine, funded by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor grant to Dr. Diane O’Dowd. Nancy is working to integrate active learning into undergraduate biology courses at UCI, as well as to train graduate students in these innovative teaching techniques.
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Dr. Julia Aguirre
Dr. Julia Aguirre is an assistant professor in the Education program at the University of Washington, Tacoma.Her research interests lie at the intersection of mathematics learning and teaching; teacher cognition and practice; professional development, roles of race/ethnicity, language, culture, and class in mathematics education, and equity/social justice issues, particularly as it relates to the mathematics education of English learners, students of color, and poor children. Her current projects focus on culturally responsive mathematics pedagogy and understanding the role culture and language play new teachers instructional vision, decision-making and practice for teaching mathematics. Dr. Aguirre has taught mathematics in formal and informal settings working with youth of color in middle school and high school. Her k-12 professional development work focuses on privileging mathematics and equity to help teachers rethink their instructional vision and practice to improve and advance mathematics education for all students.
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Dr. Allison Aiello
Dr. Aiello was recruited by the University of Michigan-School of Public Health and began her current position as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Center for Social Epidemiology & Population Health in September 2005. Her research aims to examine the influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors on infectious diseases and immune functioning among aging Hispanic populations, the relationship between infection and chronic diseases, and multidisciplinary approaches for understanding issues of antibiotic-resistance within the clinical and community setting. Dr. Aiello received her PhD in Epidemiology from Columbia University-Mailman School of Public Health where she held a training fellowship from the Center for Infectious Disease and Epidemiological Research. Her dissertation research examined whether there is a risk of increasing antibiotic resistance associated with the use of antibacterial hygiene products within the home environment among Latinos living in New York City. Upon completion of her PhD, Dr. Aiello was the recipient of the Ana C. Gelman award for outstanding achievement and promise in the field of epidemiology. Before entering her Ph.D., Dr. Aiello was an Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to the EID fellowship, Dr. Aiello received her M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. During her post-doctoral fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar (RWJ HSS), Dr. Aiello conducted research on infectious diseases among elderly Hispanics. Her studies examined how social and environmental factors correlate with cell-mediated immune response (as measured by herpesvirus antibody levels). She also examined the relationship between herpesvirus infection and cognitive decline among elderly Hispanics and this work was recently published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society and presented at several academic conferences.
Dr. Aiello is an active volunteer within the community and academic setting. She participated as a judge for the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the College Board for the past two years. Dr. Aiello is extremely devoted to issues of minority recruitment to the sciences as well as promoting diversity. To that end, she is an elected member of the American College of Epidemiology Minority Affairs Committee and an active member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).
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Dr. Darrin Akins
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Dr. Rodolfo Alarcon
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Dr. Cynthia Anhalt
Cynthia completed her doctoral studies in mathematics teacher education at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her research interests lie in student learning and teacher education, specifically with teachers of English Language Learning (ELL) student populations. Her current research focuses on improving mathematics teaching in the middle school level through lesson study with a focus on issues of language and mathematical representations and their influence on teachers' design and implementation of academic tasks. In addition, she is currently doing research in Latino/a student learning of mathematics through task-based interviews on various mathematics assessment items.
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Dr. John Augusto
John graduated from Washburn University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. In 1995, he received his Masters of Science in Education from the University of Kansas and in 2007 will complete his PhD in Education. His research interest lies in the area of doctoral training at public research universities. John has presented at over a dozen different national and regional conferences and workshops on the topics of networking, creating change within higher education and graduate recruitment.
He has worked at 15 years experience in public, private and not for profit education institutions. Previously, he spent eight years as the Assistant Dean in the Graduate School at the University of Kansas. Currently, he works as the Research Training Coordinator within the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. In this role, he coordinates the research training for the KU Lawrence Campus at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level.
John is blessed with a wonderful soulmate, Kimberly, and three children, Larissa (13 years old) and Alejandro (8 years old) and Isabella (18 months old).
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Dr. Maria Baquero
Maria Teresa is a second year doctoral student in the Yale School of Public Health. She received a BA and BS from the University of Florida in Sociology and Biochemistry, respectively and also obtained a Masters in Public Health degree from the University of Florida with concentrations in both Epidemiology and Community Health. Her research interests include the epidemiology and molecular biology of breast cancer, molecular biomarkers, as well as public health emergency preparedness using syndromic surveillance systems.
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Dr. Alessandra Barrera
Dr. Alessandra Barrera is a FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow (Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching) at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research is the structural determination of a bacterial protein-RNA complex (CsrA-CsrB), a complex fundamental in post-transcriptional gene regulation. She is also teaching courses at Spelman College and Georgia Perimeter College. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois (2004) and her B.S. in Biochemistry from St. Edward’s University in her hometown of Austin, Texas (1999). Currently, she is an active member in many scientific and educational organizations.
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Dr. Robert Bastidas
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Dr. Mark Bellcourt
Dr. Bellcourt earned his Ed.D. in Higher Education Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. His dissertation looked at Native American Science worldviews and they might be better integrated into mainstream science curriculum. He currently is an academic advisor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.
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Dr. Claudia Benitez Nelson
Dr. Claudia Benitez-Nelson grew up in Seattle Washington. While playing soccer at the University of Washington, she earned double degrees in Oceanography and Chemistry. After taking a year to travel the world she began her Ph.D. in Oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/MIT Joint Program. There, after receiving ONR and EPA Star Fellowships, she studied radiogenic isotopes as tracers of nutrient cycling, and carbon export. In 1999, she obtained her Ph.D., was awarded a NOAA postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change and became a Research Faculty member at the University of Hawaii. In 2002, Dr. Benitez-Nelson became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Marine Science Program at the University of South Carolina. Her current interests focus on the speciation and availability of oceanic phosphorus and the role of mesoscale phenomena in biological production and export. She is also involved in several programs that provide research and introductory science opportunities to minorities and local middle and high school students.
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Dr. Michael Bernas
Mike received his MS in genetics from the University of Arizona. After working in pathology, he moved to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and later rejoined the faculty at the University of Arizona in the Department of Surgery. He has numerous publications in both basic and clinical lymphology and has received National and International awards for his work. Mike is the Executive Editor of the journal Lymphology, and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Lymphology. Parallel with his funded research, he focuses on science education with special emphasis on K-graduate questioning and authentic student-based inquiry.
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Dr. Walter Besio
Walter G. Besio received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. From fall 2002 to present, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the medical device and electronics industries for more than 12 years. His major research interests include neuro-stimulation, neuro-interfaces, Laplacian EEG and ECG, biosignal detection and processing, and source localization.
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Dr. Brian Bingham
Brian Bingham received B.S. and M.S. degrees in zoology from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in biology from Florida State University. Since 1990, he has directed the highly successful Multicultural Initiative in Marine Sciences: Undergraduate Participation (MIMSUP) program. This program introduces students from underrepresented groups to research and teaching careers in the marine sciences. Dr. Bingham is a professor of environmental sciences at Western Washington University. His research interests center on processes which structure marine benthic communities including larval supply, settlement, and early juvenile mortality.
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Dr. Lee Bitsoi
Dr. LeManuel Lee Bitsoi is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and currently serves in a joint appointment at Georgetown University—as a Research Fellow in the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and as Assistant Professor in the School for Nursing and Health Studies. At Georgetown, Lee serves as a Co-Investigator for research initiatives regarding ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genomic research and its impact on indigenous people of the U.S., Canada, Australia, India, Mexico and New Zealand. Prior to his appointment at Georgetown, Lee served as Director of Minority Training in Bioinformatics & Genomics at Harvard University. Lee has devoted his career to enhancing opportunities for Native Americans to become scientists, science educators and scientifically-informed community members. Lee holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of New Mexico (1995) and a master of education degree from Harvard University (1998). In 2007, Lee earned a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania, where he conducted his doctoral dissertation research on the conditions that encourage and discourage American Indians from pursuing higher education, a subject upon which he has published.
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Dr. Gabriela Blohm
Gabriela Blohm was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She was raised by a North American mother and a Venezuelan father. Her grandparents were avid advocates of research and conservation of Venezuela's ecosystems, so she grew up with a sense of environmental awareness. She has experienced a wide range of classroom environments, from Catholic school in Caracas, to public high school in South Florida. She was a GK-12 fellow for 6th graders during the 2005-2006 academic year, and learned a great deal about communicating science to a wide range of audiences. She hopes to continue teaching and conducting research in the natural sciences.
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Dr. Carlos Bolanos
Dr. Carlos Bolaños is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, FL. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the California State University in San Bernardino, CA., and his Ph.D. in Psychology/Behavioral Neuroscience from Northeastern University, in Boston, MA. He did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry under the supervision of Dr. Eric J. Nestler at Yale Medical School and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, TX. Dr. Bolaños' research focuses on how exposure to antidepressants, stimulants, and other psychotropic drugs, as well as physical and emotional stress, leads to neurobiological adaptations of brain pathways involved in regulating reward, mood, and motivation in developmentally immature and adult animal models. His laboratory uses a multilevel approach that involves behavioral, biochemical, and psychopharmacological analyses, including the use of in vivo gene transfer (using viral vectors), to regulate the expression of specific genes in discrete brain regions. The overall goal is to better understand ways in which the developing and adult brain responds to environmental, pharmacological and genetic manipulations resulting in pathological conditions.
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Dr. Vincent Bouchard
Vincent Bouchard is an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in theoretical physics at Perimeter Institute. As a Rhodes Scholar, he finished his DPhil in Mathematics at University of Oxford in 2005. He has always been passionate about understanding the world and human society, from both a physical, philosophical and political viewpoints. Not only understanding but acting upon this understanding; he has been involved in various projects in grassroots politics -- such as alternative medias, social centers, alternative academia, etc. -- always emphasizing the importance of autonomy, non-hierarchy, diversity and creativity. In fact, creating music is also important for Vincent; he likes to play jazz and classical piano, guitar and drums.
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Dr. Terry Lee Braun
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Dr. Michael Breen
Mike had been doing Who Wants to Be a Mathematician for the American Mathematical Society for over seven years. This is the third time the math contest has been part of the SACNAS national conference.
Mike has been on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. (If you want to know if he won lots of money on either show, note that he is still working for a living.) He may be the only person ever to cut his hand on the wheel. Who Wants to Be a Mathematician is guaranteed to be much safer.
Mike taught at Alfred University and Tennessee Technological University before becoming AMS Public Awareness Officer in 2000.
The AMS has 30,000 members. It promotes mathematical research, fosters excellence in mathematics education, and increases the awareness of the value of mathematics to society. Come by the AMS booth (#814) to find out more about the Society and pick up free materials.
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Dr. Jim Bryan
Jim Bryan grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico and recieved a BA in mathematics from Stanford University in 1989 and a PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 1994. He has done postdocatoral fellowships at UC Irvine and UC Berkeley. He was an assistant professor at Tulane University from 1998 until 2001, when he moved to University of British Columbia in Vancouver where is currently a professor. His wife Jenny is an assistant professor at UBC and they have three children, Reed, Eli, and Wesley.
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Dr. Juan Burciaga
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Dr. David Burgess
David R. Burgess, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biology at Boston College and a Past-President of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. His Cherokee great grandmother was a medicine woman, his father was a teacher and junior high school principal honored for serving minority students and his mother was a homemaker. He was raised in New Mexico and Northern California. His current research, funded by the NIH since 1977, is in the area of cell division and on the science education pipeline for American Indians. He has received several awards including a Research Career Development Award from the NIH and the E. E. Just Award from the American Society for Cell Biology where he was recently elected to Council. He has been elected Fellow of AAAS.
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Dr. Linda Burhansstipanov, DrPH, CHES
Linda Burhansstipanov, MSPH, DrPH, CHES (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) has worked in public health since 1971, primarily with Native American issues. She taught full-time at universities for 18 years. She developed and implemented the Native American Cancer Research Program at the National Cancer Institute from 1989-1993. She is the current Grants Director and former Executive Director of Native American Cancer Research. She currently is the principal investigator and subcontractor for multiple NIH grants. She serves on national boards such as the CDC Health Disparities, ICC Governing Board and is the chair of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure American Indian Alaska Native National Advisory Council. She has over ninety peer reviewed publications.
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Dr. David Burnham
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Dr. Juan Bustamante
Juan J Bustamante, Ph.D., is currently working as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His work involves examining the regeneration of the liver. He received his B.S. in biology from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 1990. He also graduated with his Ph.D. in Biology at UTSA in December 2003. His research interests include protein purification, structural analysis and biology activity of pituitary and placental hormones, and liver regeneration. His long-range goals are to continue his research and teach at an academic university.
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Dr. Barbara Butterfield
Barbara Butterfield, Ph.d, has over 35 years of service in higher education. She is executive consultant to the University of Michigan, senior consultant to the Segal Company. Dr. Butterfield is a consultant educator in the area of faculty development for both COACh and Advance Programs supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.
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Dr. Bill Butterworth
Bill earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Santa Clara University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at DePaul University. He shares a life-long interest in game shows with colleague Mike Breen, with whom he works as the not-so-lovely assistant on the mathematics game show Who Wants to Be a Mathematician. In addition to authoring articles and presenting talks related to game show mathematics, Bill has also served as Mathematics Consultant to the CBS television show The Price is Right since 1997.
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Dr. Charles Calisher
Dr. Calisher was born in New York City but fled there as soon as he could, attending college in Philadelphia, obtaining a Master's degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. at Georgetown University, and then being employed at Microbiological Associates and at the CDC in Atlanta. He spent 8 years there and then 19 years at the CDC laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, as Director of International Programs and Director of the W.H.O. Reference Center for Arboviruses. Since 1993 he has been Professor of Microbiology at Colorado State University, working mainly on the natural history of hantaviruses.
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Dr. Erika Camacho
Erika Camacho, Ph.D., grew up in east Los Angeles, California, and she understands many of the struggles that students must endure in striving to attain their academic and professional goals. She began mentoring students during high school at Garfield High School, which was the subject of the movie Stand and Deliver. She is co-founder and co-director of the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute, which began in 2005. This program focuses on the recruitment of undergraduate women and underrepresented minorities who have not had research opportunities but who clearly show the potential to succeed.
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Dr. Ignacio Camarillo
Ignacio G. Camarillo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. He received his B.S. in Biology in 1992 from St. Mary’s College, MI, and his Ph.D. in 1996 in Physiology from Wayne State University, Detroit MI. As a pre-doctoral student he was support by the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) program. From 1996-2001 he was a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Camarillo’s research focuses on hormonal mediators involved in the relationship between obesity and breast cancer.
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Dr. Daniel Candelaria
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Dr. Liza Cariaga-Lo
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Dr. Romona Carrasco
ROMONA “MONA” SEMINOLE CARRASCO
MS. CARRASCO IS “NORTHERN CHEYENNE” FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA. MONA’S CAREER BACKGROUND IS IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCES. MONA HAS SPENT THE PAST EIGHT YEARS AS A PROGRAM SPECIALIST IN SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT THE OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION (ORISE). SHE WAS ALSO THE 2005 CHAIR OF THE OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES EEO/DIVERSITY COUNCIL. SHE CURRENTLY SERVES AS AN ADVISOR TO THE COUNCIL.
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Dr. Chris Cash
Chris Cash is the Institute for Broadening Participation, IBP Outreach Coordinator. Chris seeks to attract students with strong interest in interdisciplinary science into over 120 doctoral programs in universities and colleges throughout the United States. Chris identifies and assists promising students in locating and applying to graduate programs. She has worked for the last several years in the area of marine fisheries education and outreach. She was formerly a marine officer and fellowship coordinator at a the non-profit educational organization, Island Institute, located on the coast of Maine. In addition to her work with IBP, Chris recently worked with The Lobster Conservancy, as project manager for their education outreach and research projects.
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Dr. Pam Castori
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Dr. Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis
Dr. Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in bilingual and mathematics education at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Her research interests focus on the linguistic and cultural influences on the teaching and learning of mathematics, especially with students learning English as a second language. Other interests include policies and procedures used to place English language learners in mathematics. She is a Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as, a collaboration among the University of Arizona, the University of California-Santa Cruz, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the University of New Mexico.
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Dr. John Chaney
John M. Chaney, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Chaney is the director of the American Indians Into Psychology program at OSU and a past president of the Society of Indian Psychologists. Dr. Chaney’s research interests focus on children’s adjustment to chronic medical illness and social cognitive aspects of implicit racism, principally the use of Native American mascots.
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Dr. Healani Chang
Dr. Healani Chang, who is Native Hawaiian/Chinese, is an Associate Research Specialist faculty at the University of Hawaii, in the Pacific Biosciences Research Center. She serves as the Director of the MARC U*STAR and IMSD Undergraduate Research Training Programs. Since 1991, Dr. Chang has been involved in a clinical and epidemiological study to investigate the metabolic syndrome among a multi-ethnic population in rural North Kohala, Hawaii. Dr. Chang is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Ecology and Health, in the John A. Burns School of Medicine. She serves as the minority recruitment and retention coordinator for the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program focused on Integrative Training in Ecology, Conservation and Pathogen Biology.
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Dr. Ferman Chavez
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and attended Bell Gardens High School in Bell Gardens California. In high school I participated in sports and did well in academics. I graduated in 1983 and that year enrolled at California State University, Long Beach. I worked to pay for my education and eventually was admitted into the MARC program which covered my educational expenses. While at Long Beach, I earned a B.A. in Chemistry and a minor in Zoology/Physiology. Upon completing college in 1989, I was accepted into USC Medical School and attended for one year but then decided that I wanted to pursue a research career. At this time I began work for the US FDA Dept. of Health and Human Services as an analytical chemist. In 1993 I entered a Ph.D. program at University of California, Santa Cruz. I received my Ph.D. degree in 1999 and then worked as a postdoc at the University of Minnesota. In 2002 I was offered a tenure-track position at Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan) and accepted. At Oakland I have taught many chemistry courses and carried out research with graduate and undergraduate students. My tenure decision will be in 2008.
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Dr. Gerardo Chowell-Puente
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Dr. Laurie Churchill
Dr. Laurie Churchill is Project Director for the New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, a NSF-funded programs that helps support minority doctoral students in STEM disciplines and prepares them for academic and research careers.
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Dr. Darienne Ciuro-Sanchez
Darienne Ciuro was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She attended St. Mary’s Private School, where she graduated with high honors. While on school, she was proactive in scientific research on the Pre-College Research Program at the Universidad Metropolitana campus. There, she enrolled for eleven semesters, working on twelve different research projects. In fall 2004, she obtained the MIE Scholarship and pursued a Computer Science bachelor’s degree. Currently, she is a junior on her field and has maintained her research abilities working as a mentor on the programs. Future plans include graduate studies down to her last goal, the Ph.D.
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Dr. Omar Colon-Reyes
Omar Colon-Reyes was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1977. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in May 2005 under the supervision of Reinhard Laubenbacher. His area of research is discrete dynamical systems and its applications. Currently, Omar is an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus. In his free time, Omar loves to watch old movies and play tennis.
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Dr. Ricardo Cordero
Ricardo J. Cordero-Soto, born in October 30, 1981 in San Juan, PR is an applied mathematics Senior at Universidad Metropolitana. Both Ricardo and his mentor, Dr. Martin Engman, have published a paper in the Journal of Mathematical Physics entitled Intrinsic Spectral Geometry of the Kerr-Newman Event Horizon ( J. Math. Phys. 47, 033503 (2006) ). For this paper, Ricardo presented a poster at SACNAS 2005 and obtained an honorable mention. Cordero obtained an award for this poster at the 2006 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Antonio. Ricardo plans to obtain a PhD in Pure Mathematics and specialize in Differential Geometry.
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Dr. Carla Cotwright
Carla D. Cotwright,Ph.D. grew up in Los Angeles,CA. She attended Long Beach State where she majored in Mathematics. She earned a Master of Science in Mathematics from Southern University and A&M College. Her masters thesis was entitled Unique Factorization in Bi-Quadratic Number Fields, lead under the direction of Dr. Stella R. Ashford (retired). In 2006, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mathematics from the University of Mississippi. Her research in Matroid Theory, a branch of combinatorics, resulted in a dissertation entitled Clones and Minors of Matroids, lead under the direction of Dr. James Reid.
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Dr. Sharon Crook
Dr. Crook is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Life Sciences at Arizona State University. She completed her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland at College Park and received additional training as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Computational Biology at Montana State University. In her primary research area of computational neuroscience, Dr. Crook uses mathematical models, analysis, and computational studies to examine the behavior of neurons and neural networks and their role in neural computation. She also contributes to an international, collaborative effort to create a markup language, NeuroML, which provides a common format for describing neuroscience data and models.
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Dr. Kelle Cruz
Kelle Cruz was born and raised in San Antonio, TX. By the time she finished high school, she knew that she wanted to pursue astronomy professionally. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, she became involved in research as a freshman. Both from UPenn, she earned her B.A. in 2000 and her Ph.D. in 2004. She currently is a NSF Post-doctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She enjoys tennis, yoga, backpacking, and rock climbing.
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Dr. Derek Cunningham
Derek Cunningham CEO and founder of ScienceObserver.com
Born in Scotland and a citizen of the world Derek Cunningham has spent much of his varied and busy life in the field of nanotechnology. His primary interest, and the one that he loves the most is the challenge to identify relationships between a materials structure and activity; especially those that involve intricate control of the structure of materials at subnanometer sizes. During his career Derek Cunningham most notable success was to develop the first method for synthesizing 13 atom gold clusters with controlled crystal structure and morphology; these materials are often used as catalysts and in optical sensors. He also is an expert in crystal growth, and is best known for his groundbreaking work in resolving the complex mechanism by which impurities and additives influence the morphology of inorganic crystals. He is currently interested in developing novel methods to aid the rapid data extraction of scientific data in multiple languages.
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Dr. Diana Dalbotten
Diana Dalbotten is the Director of Diversity for the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, an NSF-funded center that is headquartered at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota.
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Dr. Enrique Manuel De La Cruz
Enrique M. De La Cruz, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He is a first generation Cuban-American who was raised in Newark, NJ. Dr. De La Cruz received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Beta Beta Honor Societies. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and received postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Dr. De La Cruz has received a number of awards and honors including the Keith R. Porter Symposium Award from the Society for General Physiologists, the Anderson Award and the Hellman Family Fellowship from Yale University. He was also the Abbott Distinguished Lecturer at Purdue University, Plenary Lecturer at the Ibero-American Congress of Biophysics Meeting and, most recently, he was an invited Plenary Lecturer at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. Dr. De La Cruz has published extensively in the area of actin and myosin regulation and has given numerous invited lectures. In addition, he has participated in a number of outreach activities focused on enhancing minority participation in the sciences.
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Dr. Sylvia Escobar
Sylvia Escobar has held multiple roles in sales, technical support and management during her 23 year career at Agilent Technologies (formerly a part of the Hewlett Packard Company). She is currently the Support Solutions Sales Manager for the Americas Sales, Marketing and Support Organization, which is part of Agilent’s Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business. She is primarily responsible for managing the sales force which provides technical support solutions to customers that have purchased Agilent’s analytical instruments for chemical and bioanalytical research throughout the Americas. Sylvia received her BS degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas, Austin and her MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is a native of El Paso, Texas, but currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Dr. Jose Fernandez
José Fernández has worked at AAAS since July 2004. He was the Marketing Associate for the Minority Scientists Network , charged with the task of recruiting and managing student and faculty Campus Representatives. For over a year he toured campuses throughout the US and Puerto Rico. He communicated with students, in both English and Spanish, regarding MiSciNet and all the resources available on the site. Currently José is the Program Manager for GrantsNet (www.GrantsNet.org) AAAS's funding database. He not only manages the day to day uploads of funding opportunities onto the site but he's also working on improving functions to make the site more user friendly and funder assessable. He hopes to increase marketing activity to both funders and seekers in 2006. José is a graduate of Oswego State University with a BS in Marketing.
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Dr. Geoffrey Fox
Fox received a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and is now professor of Computer Science, Informatics, and Physics at Indiana University. He is director of the Community Grids Laboratory of the Pervasive Technology Laboratories at Indiana University. He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University and Florida State University. He has published over 550 papers in physics and computer science and been a major author on four books. Fox has worked in a variety of applied computer science fields with his work on computational physics evolving into contributions to parallel computing and now to Grid systems.
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Dr. Claire Fraser
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD, is President, Director and co-founder of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD, a non-for-profit center which has been at the forefront of genomics since its origin in 1992. Starting with her work in 1995 on the first bacterial genome to be sequenced, Dr. Fraser has become an international leader in the field of microbial genomics and forensics, as the first or senior author on scientific papers that have described the complete DNA sequences of more than two dozen organisms, including the microbe that cause anthrax and several other pathogens that are considered to be biothreat agents. Dr. Fraser was a member of a National Research Council committee on countering bioterrorism and was appointed in 2005 to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a high-level board that seeks to promote biosecurity in life science research. She has served on review committees of the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. She has published more than 220 articles in scientific journals, has edited three books, and serves on the editorial boards of five scientific journals. Her academic and professional honors have included the 2005 Promega Biotechnology Research Award from the American Society of Microbiology, the 2005 Charles Thom Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology, the 2002 E. O. Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy, election as a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recognition as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. In addition to her leadership of TIGR, Dr. Fraser also holds professorships in Microbiology and Tropical Medicine as well as in Pharmacology at The George Washington University School of Medicine. Before becoming TIGR’s president in 1998, Dr. Fraser was the institute’s vice president of research and director of its microbial genomics department. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, including three years as Chief of the Section of Molecular Neurobiology at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Dr. Corey Garza
Corey Garza is an assistant professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay. He previously served as a research ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As a NOAA scientist he served as a scientific liaison to and chief scientist for the USEPA Long Island Sound Study. He has also held postdoctoral positions with the USEPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program and the Center for Environmental Analysis at California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are in the area of marine landscape ecology. He uses GIS modeling and spatial statistics to study how topographic complexity can affect the relationship between physical forcing factors and patterns of species distribution and abundance in subtidal and intertidal marine communities.
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Dr. Tina Garza
Kristine M. Garza obtained her B.S. in Biology at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas in 1991. In 1997, she obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology/Immunology at the University of Virginia. She conducted her postdoctoral studies at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In the fall of 2000, she returned to her hometown of El Paso, Texas to join the Univ. of Texas at El Paso Department of Biological Sciences. Dr. Garza’s research focuses on antigen presenting cell and T cell interactions that lead to the initiation and progression of immunity.
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Dr. Ann Gates
Ann Quiroz Gates is the Associate Vice President of Research and Sponsored Projects at the University of Texas at El Paso and past chair of the Computer Science Department. Her research areas are software property elicitation and specification, and workflow-driven ontologies. Gates directs the NSF-funded Cyber-ShARE Center that focuses on developing and sharing resources through cyber-infrastructure to advance research and education in science. She is a member of the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure, and she serves on the Board of Governors of IEEE-Computer Society. Gates leads the Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI), an NSF-funded consortium that is focused on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Hispanics in computing.
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Dr. Jose Gaudier
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Dr. Olivia George
Olivia grew up in Beclabito, New Mexico near the Four Corners area. She is Navajo/Dineh from the Manygoats Clan and born for the Towering Houses Clan. She graduated with her bachelor's in microbiology. She recieved her master's in molecular biology from New Mexico State University studying the toxicokinetic effects of swainsonine, a compound found in a native southwestern plant called locoweed, and its role in modifying the alkaline phosphatase protein structure. Currently, she is persuing her doctorate in molecular biology from NMSU in Dr. Charles Shuster's lab studying cytokinesis and developmental biology.
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Dr. Barry Gold
Barry Gold is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Pittsburgh. Previously he was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska where he was Professor and Associate Director of the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, and Associate Director for Basic Research of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s NCI-designated Cancer Center. He also held appointments as Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Gold received his A.B. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He did postdoctoral studies in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto.
A main focus of Dr. Gold’s research is the design and synthesis of DNA equilibrium binding molecules. This work has led to the development of unique polymeric materials that sequence specifically form DNA triplexes at any sequence of native DNA. The potential use of these molecules in gene regulation and as probes for cell analysis and sorting are being investigated. In addition, he has prepared molecules that deliver specific types of damage to DNA in an effort to develop anticancer agents that minimize the risk for the development of secondary cancers due to chemotherapy.
Dr. Gold has also been involved in graduate education and has trained numerous graduate and postgraduate students who have gone on to careers in academia and industry. In Nebraska, he was the Principal Investigator of an NIH Training Grant that supported pre- and post-doctoral students working in cancer biology.
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Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez
Gabriela Gonzalez was born in Cordoba, Argentina. She got her undergraduate degree from Cordoba National University (Argentina), and moved to the U.S. for her graduate studies in Physics, in Syracuse University. She got her PhD in 1995, worked as a scientisic in the LIGO group in MIT from 1995-1997, was an Assistant Professor in Penn State 1997-2001, and is now an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University.
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Dr. Elma González
Dr. Elma Gonzalez, a full professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, received her Ph.D. in Cellular Biology at Rutgers University and was a post-doctoral fellow at UC Santa Cruz. Prof. Gonzalez has worked on glyoxysome biogenesis in plant fatty seeds. She was the first to show a biogenic relationship between ER and nascent glyxoysomes (peroxisomes). More recently, her work has focused on the biochemistry and cell biology of subcellular, controlled calcification in the coccolithophorid algae. Dr. Gonzalez, a MARC U*STAR program director, was honored with the 2004 SACNAS Distinguished Scientist Award.
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Dr. Melissa Green
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Dr. Lowana Greensky
Lowana Greensky is a Program Associate for the gidakiimanaaniwigamig Native American Youth Science Enrichment Program with the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics. She is also the Native education coordinator for the St. Louis County Schools, Minnesota.
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Dr. Benjamin Gutierrez
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Dr. Carlos Gutierrez
Carlos G. Gutierrez was in born in Mexico in1949, and educated in the Los Angeles, CA public schools. At UCLA he pursued interests in art, film, and literature before earning the BS in chemistry, and subsequently the PhD in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of California, Davis. In 1976 he was appointed to the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles and promoted to professor in 1984. Gutierrez is a synthetic organic chemist, with interests at the interface of organic, inorganic and biological chemistry. He and his students design and synthesize molecules useful as probes to study the details of iron acquisition, transport, and utilization by bacteria. Along with colleagues at Cal State LA he is committed to greater participation by minority students in scientific careers, and directs the Cal State LA Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program and the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) RISE program.
Honors to Gutierrez include an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award in animation in 1973 for the educational film "Antimatter". He was honored by former President William J. Clinton with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 1996. He was named University President's Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in 2001, and also that year, a National Associate of the National Academies of Science. He received the 2001 American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers In the Chemical Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and in 2004 he received the AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award. Most recently he was named a 2005 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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Dr. Johnny Guzman
Johnny Guzmán was born and raised in southern California. He attended Cerritos Community College before transferring to California State University-Long Beach were he received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1999. As an undergraduate, Johnny attended two summer research programs which motivated him to pursue graduate studies. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. Johnny is currently a National Science Foundation Postdoc at the University of Minnesota’s School of Mathematics. His area of research is numerical approximations of partial differential equations.
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Dr. Joyanne Hamilton
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Dr. Luis Haro
Dr. Luis S. Haro received a B.A. in Biology from UC-San Diego, a Ph.D. in Biology from UC-Santa Cruz, a UC-President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a Research Scientist at the Whittier Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology. He joined UT-San Antonio in 1993 and is currently Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. He has patented research and received the SACNAS Undergraduate Institution Mentor Award, the Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award and was President of SACNAS. His research focuses on the molecular structures of human growth hormone and prolactin isoforms and their roles in breast cancer and brain function.
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Dr. Hector Hernandez
Hector H. Hernandez was born in Honduras, and grew up in Guatemala, Florida, and Puerto Rico. He dropped out of college and worked for nine years before returning to school. Starting at Valencia Community College, he worked his way through school and graduated from the University of South Florida in 2000. Hector met his current advisor at an ASBMB conference in San Francisco and was recruited to the MIT Chemistry Department in 2000. He currently works on elucidating protein structures. Hector believes in science and engineering education, and he will pursue an academic position at a top research institution.
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Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer
Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer is currently a research scientist at the USGS Flagstaff Science Center where she is project chief of the “Navajo Land Use Planning Project”, leading a team of researchers that conduct studies on tribal lands. This interdisciplinary team looks at linkages between geology, climate and land use history, to assess impacts to communities and the landscape they live on. Primary issues include drought impacts, wind erosion, and water quality. Recently, she has been selected by the IPCC working Group II to be lead author on Chapter 15 of the Fifth Assessment Report, on Adaptation, Planning and Implementation. Her education includes a B.S. in Geology with extended hydrogeology emphasis; an M.S. in sedimentology; and a Ph.D. in isotope and trace element geochemistry.
Margaret is of Crow descent, originally from an area on Wyoming-Montana border. She lived in the Joint Use Area of the Navajo Nation for ten years, in what is now Hopi Partitioned Lands, and is mother to three children.
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Dr. Belen Hurle
Dr. Belen Hurle is a Staff Scientist at the Intramural Research Program of the Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Heath. She joined the NHGRI in November 2002 after completing four-years of postdoctoral training in Molecular Genetics at Washington University (St. Louis, MO) studying the genetics of the sense of balance. Previously she obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo (Spain).
The comparative genomics program at the NHGRI generates and compares genomic sequence from multiple vertebrates. Dr Hurle’s current research is on the link between primate mating behavior and underlying molecular genetic mechanisms.
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Dr. Jani Ingram
Jani C. Ingram, PhD is an associate professor of chemistry at Northern Arizona University. She received a B. S. degree in chemistry from New Mexico State University and a Ph. D. degree in chemistry from the University of Arizona. She spent 12 years at a Department of Energy Laboratory doing research in the area of environmental chemistry. Her research interests are directed at the chemical characterization of environmental systems. She is investigating both organic and inorganic contaminants present in Northern Arizona. She is involved in outreach activities for Native American students in undergraduate research.
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Dr. Monik Jimenez
Monik C. Jimenez received a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently working on understanding the relationship between socio-economic factors and tooth loss among minority populations in the US. Her other interests include, the relationship between oral diseases and cardiovascular disease. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the department of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and a T32 fellow in the department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
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Dr. Paula Kavathas
Professor Paula Kavathas received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin and was a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining the Yale Medical School faculty in 1986. Her laboratory studies (i) Chlamydia Trachomatis host-pathogen interaction and (ii) structure/function and signaling properties of the T lymphocyte co-receptor CD8. She served as Chair of the American Association of Immunologists Committee on the Status of Women, is a member of the Yale Women Faculty Forum (www.yale.edu/wff), and directs a science education outreach program in the New Haven Public Schools (www.seop.yale.edu). She has two daughters in college and an enthusiastic husband.
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Dr. Judy Kelley
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Dr. Claudia Knez
Claudia Knez was born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. when she was twelve. She attended the University of Virginia and received her Bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy in May 2000. She then attended the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her Ph.D. in August 2006 with a focus on chemistry in star forming regions. She is now a Research Associate at the University of Maryland in College Park.
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Dr. Pablo Laguna
Laguna is a Numerical Relativist focusing on simulations of the orbits and merger of binary black holes. Binary black hole systems are central in General
Relativity. They are primer candidates to expose the complex, non-linear nature of Einstein's field equations. Laguna received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Metropolitan University of Iztapalapa, Mexico, in 1981 and his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin from 1987 to 1989, and a visiting assistant professor at Drexel University from 1989 to 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Penn State as assistant professor. He was promoted to associate
professor in 1998 and to professor in 2000, and was named associate director of both the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics and the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry in 2001.
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Dr. Thomas Landefeld
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Dr. Reinhard Laubenbacher
Prof. Laubenbacher is a mathematician working in computational systems biology, in particular the modeling and simulation of biological networks, both at the theoretical and the applied level, using a variety of modeling tools, with special emphasis on time and space discrete models.
An important research focus of the group is the development of new mathematical methods for the inference of biological networks from high-throughput experimental data. In collaboration with members of the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Shulaev Laboratory at VBI, his group is working on a systems biology approach to breast cancer research.
Research foci are on the modeling of iron metabolism in healthy vs.
malignant cells on the one hand and
the development of mathematical and statistical methods for the discovery of metabolic biomarkers for breast cancer detection on the other hand.
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Dr. Delton Lester
A member of the Navajo Tribe of soutwestern USA, Delton is an Undergaduate in the field of Geology. Expected to Graduate in May 2007, and further his study in graduate school through studies in the geology of the Navajo Reservation.
Delton is also a contract employee with the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, AZ.
Studies involved in right now are the correlations of the Miocene-Plioceneaged drainage of Lake Bidahochi with the Grand Canyon.
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Dr. Douglas Levey
Doug Levey is a professor of Zoology at the University of Florida, where he heads a GK-12 program. The program is aimed at middle school students in schools with large proportions of Hispanic and African American students. Its theme is Ecosystem Health. Dr. Levey received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His research focuses on conservation biology and the evolutionary ecology of wild chili peppers.
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Dr. Diana Lizarraga
Diana attributes her success to her undergraduate involvement in MESA CC, California AMP, and McNair Scholars programs. After obtaining her B.S. in Agricultural Systems she worked at HP, where she earned the prestigious MVP award after her first year. Since then Diana has earned a Masters degree in Organizational Development. She has been passionate about diversity science students and has worked for programs such as McNair, AGEP, and currently she runs the UC LEADS research program at UC Berkeley. She is also part-owner of a small Biotech DNA Sequencing Facility in her hometown and a new mom to baby Alejandro.
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Dr. Ramon Lopez
Dr. Ramon E. Lopez is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), he was awarded the 2002 APS Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service to Science, and he is the recipient of two NASA Group Achievement Awards. His research focuses on simulation of the magnetosphere and space weather prediction, as well physics education research. Dr. Lopez has authored over 100 papers, the popular science book “Storms from the Sun”, and he is skilled at communicating the mysteries of space science to a general audience.
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Dr. Elisa Maldonado
Elisa Maldonado is a Ph.D. Candidate in Marine Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her thesis focuses on the effects of environmental factors on marine invertebrate larvae. Specifically, she is interested in the effects of food availability and small-scale turbulence on grazing, growth, swimming, and gene expression of sea urchin larvae.
Elisa obtained her Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology from UCLA. During this time, she participated in research projects at UCLA, the Los Angeles County and Smithsonian Natural History Museums.
Elisa is passionate about mentoring and has helped several underrepresented students through programs such as UCSD STARS.
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Dr. Diana Marinez
Dr. Diana I. Marinez, emeritus professor of Biochemistry and Dean of the College of Science and Technology at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (1994-2005) received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Indiana University Medical Center and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Marine Science, University of Miami and in the Dairy Department at Michigan State University. She spent twenty-five years at Michigan State University, five as Chair of the Department of Natural Science (1984-89) and five as Education Director for the Julian Samora Research Institute (1989-94). As Dean she received science education grants totally over $15M and was involved in bringing over $40M to the TAMU System.
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Dr. Pedro Marronetti
Dr. Pedro Marronetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1965.
He studied as an undergraduate at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and obtained his Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Notre Dame in 1999. Dr. Marronetti held Research Post-doctoral positions at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before becoming Assistant Professor of Physics at Florida Atlantic University.
His research interests are General relativity and Astrophysics, with particular emphasis in numerical modeling of Neutron Stars and Black Holes systems.
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Dr. Cleopatria Martinez
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Dr. Luis Martinez
An El Paso native, Dr. Martínez’s interests are in the synthesis and application of small molecules to probe and study biological function and the development of new synthetic methods. Prior to his current position at Scripps Florida, he was a professor at UTEP and a management consultant with Feinstein-Kean Healthcare.
Dr. Martínez received a B.S. degree from Trinity University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Harvard University. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow, a former Fellow of the Miller Institute at UC-Berkeley and a Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Awardee. His active research program has been supported by the NIH, DOD, the Research Corporation and the Welch Foundation.
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Dr. Luz Martinez-Miranda
Prof. Luz J. Martinez-Miranda is an Associate Professor of Materials Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her main interests are liquid crystal films and their interactions with magnetic nanoparticles. Dr. Martinez studies these using X-ray scattering techniques. She is interested in the relationship between liquid crystals and cell walls. Dr. Martinez is also interested in relating her research work with projects that middle and high school students will find interesting and will attract them to the field. She is also the director of the Materials Science and Research Center Research Experience for Undergraduates.
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Dr. Bryan Mendez
Dr. Bryan Mendez is an Education and Public Outreach Specialist at the Center for Science Education at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, working to educate and inspire others about the wonder and beauty of the Universe. He develops programs for the public through the web and museums, classroom materials for students in K-12 classrooms, and has a particular interest in professional development for science educators and has conducted numerous workshops and short courses. Dr. Méndez has a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Dr. Brianne Miers
Brianne joined the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships team in October 2005. She leads the outreach and recruitment activities, including managing conferences, presentations and special events; overseeing advertising, the Web site and other publications. She previously worked for World Wildlife Fund and Clarus Public Relations, and as a freelance writer for various newspapers. She also performed work for the CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement and USAID. During graduate school, she was a volunteer English teacher in Pokhara, Nepal. Brianne received her bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and her master’s degree in public administration from The George Washington University.
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Dr. Gustavo Miranda-Carboni
My undergraduate research career started at East Los Angeles Community College, where I participated in the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) program. I transferred to UCLA to complete my bachelor’s degree in microbiology and molecular genetics, and I became the first minority in the UCLA Center for Academic & Research Excellence program’s 10 year history to receive a Ph.D.
I am currently working in the lab of Dr. Timothy Lane, researching wnt and TGF-β1 signaling as it pertains to mammary epithelial cell fate and neoplastic transformation. My future goal is to expand my research into stem cells. I want to identify novel signal-transducers in the tumor stem cell “niche” that can improve our knowledge about TGF-β1 and Wnt10b signaling and how they pertain to neoplastic transformation. My long term goal is to become a faculty member at a leading U.S. university in cancer research.
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Dr. Marco Molinaro
A native of Italy, Marco Molinaro earned a dual bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University in 1988 and his doctorate in biophysical chemistry from the University of California Berkeley in 1994. He serves as the Chief Education Officer of the NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST). An expert in informal and formal education, educational technology and biophysical chemistry, he oversees all of the educational and diversity efforts of the Center as related to students and the public.
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Dr. Lupita Montoya
Dr. Lupita D. Montoya is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, the oldest technological university in the United States. She holds a B.S. in Engineering (Applied Mechanics) from California State University at Northridge, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Thermosciences) and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Indoor Air Quality) from Stanford University. She received postdoctoral fellowships and training from the State University of New York, Albany and Harvard School of Public Health. Her present area of research is Aerosol Science and her research interests rest at the intersection of Aerosol Science, Engineering and Public Health. Her research ranges from instrument development to experimental modeling and health effects of airborne particles. She is married to a fellow engineer and faculty member at Rensselaer and is the proud mother of two boys.
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Dr. Norma Neely
Dr. Norma J. Neely has been an educator for over twenty-five years, teaching grades K-8 as well as university classes. This Citizen Band Potawatomi tribal member served on the SACNAS Board and is currently on the Pre-College and Native American Committees. She is an Instructional Facilitator for Science at the Northeast Regional Professional Development Center at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In December, 2007, Dr. Neely traveled on an NSF-funded research expedition to Antarctica (IPY-ROAM through The University of Texas at El Paso) and has incorporated that experience into classroom activities for students in Northeastern Missouri.A Biography has not been submitted
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Dr. Edward Olano
Edward M. Olano earned a B.S. in Chemistry from UC San Diego, and an M.S. in Physical Chemistry and Combustion Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin under the late Dr. William C. Gardiner, Jr. His areas of research lie in synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials. He currently is a staff member in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at UC Irvine, where he serves as an Undergraduate Research Counselor. Mr. Olano also serves on the Board of Directors of several organizations and companies among which are the Scientific Observer and Northern San Diego County non-profit organizations.
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Dr. Christine Ortiz
Dr. Ortiz received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and a M.S. and Ph.D. from
Cornell University in the same field in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
Following completion of her thesis, she spent two years as a NSF-NATO
post-doctoral fellow at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
In 1999, Dr. Ortiz joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developed a research program on the ultrastructure and nanomechanics of biological, biomedical, and biomimetic materials. In 2002, Dr. Ortiz won a National Science Foundation
Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, which was
presented to her by President George W. Bush at the White House. She
has given > 100 invited presentations in 15 countries on her
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Dr. Jesus Pando
Dr. Jesus Pando earned his PhD under Li-Zhi Fang in 1997 at the University of Arizona. He was awarded a Chateaubriand Post-Doctoral Fellowship and an NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship to continue his work at Observatoire de Strasbourg, France. He is now an Associate Professor of Physics at DePaul University in Chicago and is active in SACNAS (program committee) and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (treasurer).
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Dr. Abraham Parker
Abraham Parker is on the Education and Outreach Staff for the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He holds degrees in Natural Resources and Science Education from Cornell University, and has a strong background and interest in ecology and field biology, having spent time as a research assistant at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies and the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. He is currently involved in several projects within the Education and Outreach Office, including development of diversity initiatives, an update of AIBS career-related resources and information, coordination of student chapters at colleges and universities, and collaboration with the AIBS public policy office on issues related to the teaching of evolution.
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Dr. Holly Pellerin
Holly Pellerin is the Program Director for the gidakiimanaaniwigamig Native American Youth Science Enrichment Program for the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics. She is an elder and lives on the Fond du Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota.
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Dr. Christine Pfund
Christine Pfund earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, Chris is the Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and the co-Director of The Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching in Madison. Her work with both programs is focused on preparing future faculty to be effective teachers and mentors, as well as successfully integrate their approaches to research with their approaches to teaching and learning. Specifically, Chris has been integrally involved in developing, implementing, documenting, and evaluating a training seminar for mentors working with undergraduate researchers.
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Dr. Peter Preusch
Peter C. Preusch, Ph.D. is the program administrator for the NIGMS Pharmacological Sciences training grant program --one of ten NIGMS-supported areas of graduate training. He earned his B.S. from Penn State, Ph.D. from Cornell, and was a postdoc at the Univ of Wisconsin. He was Asst Prof of Chemistry, Univ of Akron, 1983-1990, prior to joining NIH. At NIH, he has served as a review administrator and a program administrator for grants in the areas of pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, and drug development and drug delivery.
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Dr. Jorge Pullin
Born in Argentina, I did part of my undergraduate work at the University of Buenos Aires, and completed my undergraduate and Ph.D. at the Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina. I spent time at the University of Cordoba, Argentina and then moved to the US. I was a postdoc in Syracuse University, the University of Utah and became a faculty member at Penn State. In 2001 I moved to Louisiana State, where I co-direct the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics. I was and Alfred P. Sloan, John S. Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow. I am a fellow of the American Physics Society and a member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Kristy Redhorse
Kristy Red-Horse received her bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas in 1999 before attending Master's studies at San Francisco State University. After completing her Master's degree in 2001, she continued here graduate studies at the University of California, San Francisco In Dr. Susan Fisher's laboratory and was awarded her Ph.D degree in 2005. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar with Dr. Napoleone Ferrara at Genentech, Inc. in South San Francisco, California.
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Dr. Anthony Rene
Dr. René is assistant director for referral and liaison at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He received a B.S. degree Biology from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1955 and a Ph.D. in cell biology from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1962. Dr. René has over 40 years of government service which includes research and research administration. He has been at the NIH for 30 of those years. Dr. René’s career at the NIH has involved the oversight of programs that offer internships and opportunities for high school, college, and graduate students as well as post-graduates and faculty at colleges, universities, and medical schools throughout the U.S. Over the years, he received special recognition for mentoring students and university faculty in addition to recruiting students into biomedical and behavioral research careers. Dr. René’s work with the disabled, women, and the underserved recently earned him an NIH Director’s Award.
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Dr. Gregory Reyes
Greg Reyes is Vice President, Discovery Biology, Pfizer Global Research & Development (Ann Arbor, MI). He has held other senior positions in both large pharma (Schering-Plough Research Institute) and biotechnology. Greg holds nearly 50 patents in nucleic acid methodologies (isolation and identification of low abundance transcripts), antigen identification from viral genomes, and novel virus cloning. He received international recognition for the molecular cloning and characterization of the hepatitis E virus while leading the virus discovery efforts at GeneLabs (Redwood City, Calif). Greg is a member of the Advisory Council for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, chairs the External Advisory Committee to the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program at Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico, and is a member of the External Advisory Committee to the International Outreach Program at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Greg, a native Californian, received his B.A. at the UC, Santa Cruz (MBRS program alumnus), followed by his M.D. and Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (MSTP Program alumnus).
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Dr. Geraldine Richmond
Professor Geraldine Richmond has been a chemistry professor at the University of Oregon since 1985. She has an active research program involving the use of laser spectroscopy to study molecular processes at surfaces. With over 140 publications, her work has been recognized by numerous awards and honors. Richmond is also widely recognized for her dedication to teaching and her mentoring efforts aimed at diversifying the scientific workforce. In 1998 Richmond founded an organization called “COACh” to foster the career success of women scientists in academia.(http://coach.uoregon.edu/) Over 1000 women scientists around the country have used COACh programs to advance their careers.
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Dr. Carlos Rios Velazquez
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Dr. Rios-Velazquez is a Biology Department Associate faculty at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and co-director of the Center for Hemispheric Cooperation in Research and Education (CoHemis). His two passions are research and education, specifically in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioprospecting. Dr. Rios-Velazquez has participated in initiatives for teaching Biotechnology to secondary students and teachers, and designing novel team-work educational methods to develop research skills. During summer of 2005, he participated as visiting scientist at the Computational and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi) at MIT in a project analyzing the yeast global proteome dynamics in response to DNA damage agents.
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Dr. Laura Robles
Dr. Robles received her B. S. and M. S. degrees from San Diego State University and her Ph. D. in 1975 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1975 she was hired as a full-time lecturer at California State University, Dominguez Hills and in 1976 successfully competed for a tenure-tract position in the Department of Biology. In 1980 she was invited to become part of the MBRS program at CSUDH and has maintained continuous MBRS support since that time. In 1986 she became MBRS Program Director which today consists of both RISE and SCORE programs.
Dr. Robles was Chair of the Department of Biology, Acting Associate Dean for Student Academic Advancement and past president of the CSUDH chapter of Sigma Xi. She was also Co-chair of the Institutional Review Board, Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Biology, member of the CSUDH Foundation Board of Directors, member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of SACNAS, and a member of the American Society for Cell Biology Minorities Affairs and Publications Committees. She received the CSUDH Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teaching Award and was twice selected as the CSUDH Outstanding Professor. In 2002, the Latino Faculty and Staff Association at CSUDH honored Dr. Robles with the Cesar Chavez Aguila Negra Educacion, Justica e Igualdad Award, in 2003 she received a Role Model Citation from Minority Access, Inc., and in 2004 she received the SACNAS Undergraduate Institution Mentor Award. She is currently Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
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Dr. Alberto Roca
Dr. Roca was a Project Scientist in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research involves using biophysical approaches to understand the molecular mechanism of recombinational DNA repair. He is a first-generation Peruvian-American born in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a former University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow. He is the founding chair of the SACNAS Postdoc Committee. His Sloan Foundation grant allowed him to create www.minoritypostdoc.org and to organize the Minority Postdoc Summit at the 2004 SACNAS annual conference.
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Dr. Andres Rodriguez
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Dr. Michael Rodriguez
Dr. Michael J. Rodriguez received his B.S. degree from UC Irvine, in 1981 and his M.S. degree in chemistry from Cal State, Fullerton in 1983. He continued his studies at UC Davis in the area of synthetic methodology. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1988, he was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship while attending Harvard University. In 1991, he joined the research labs at Eli Lilly & Company. As a research scientist, he has been part of several multi-disciplinary research teams involved in identifying promising new therapies for the treatment of obesity, fungal and bacterial infections and cancer.
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Dr. Javier Rojo
Javier Rojo is Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He received a Masters’ degree and a PhD from Stanford University and UC Berkeley respectively. He was Statistics/Probability Program director at NSF in 1997-1999 and was a visiting professor at SMU in 1998. He is Director of RUSIS, an REU site funded by NSF and NSA. He has served in several National Academy of Sciences committees and is an elected Fellow of IMS, RSS, ASA, and AAAS, and an elected member of ISI. Dr. Rojo is Chair/Organizer of the Lehmann Symposia and The Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute. His interests include Partial orders of probability distributions, Tail orderings, Dimension reduction, Survival analysis, Inference with constraints, and Decision theory.
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Dr. Francine Romero
Francine C. Romero is Director of the Jemez Health and Human Services Department for the Pueblo of Jemez (New Mexico) and Principal Investigator to the Northern Plains NARCH Program. She is the former Director of the Northern Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center, Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (AATCHB), Rapid City, South Dakota. She received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New Mexico and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the genetic variation in American Indian populations of the American Southwest and Alaska. Much of her training was at the National Institutes of Health (1988-1998) and she was former Chair of the Portland Area Indian Health Service (IHS) Institutional Review Board (IRB), and co-Chair of the National IHS IRB.
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Dr. Amy Ross
Amy A. Ross, Ph.D. is the Mentoring Project Coordinator for NOGLSTP. She has been involved in the LGBT scientific community for over 25 years. As a founding member of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Scientists, she has been instrumental in presenting symposia on AIDS, homophobia in the sciences, and other LGBT issues to academic, government, corporate and professional society audiences. She is currently involved in the development of a cancer diagnostics company based upon her patented tumor cell detection technology. She may be reached at: aross@noglstp.org or at: aross@QMLabs.com.
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Dr. Ivelisse Rubio
Dr. Ivelisse M. Rubio was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. Her research interests are applications of computational algebra, finite fields and coding theory. Dr. Rubio is a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. In 1998, she co-founded, together with Herbert Medina, the Summer Institute in Mathematics for Undergraduates (SIMU), a research program for Latinos and Native Americans cosponsored by SACNAS. She has been a Co-director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program (MSRI-UP) at Berkeley, CA since 2007.
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Dr. Juana Rudati
Juana Ines Rudati recently completed the Ph.D. in physics at SUNY-Stony Brook and bachelors in both physics and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. As an undergraduate she was a CAMP (California Alliance for Minority Participation) student and tutor. She also participated in summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Berkeley, The University of Chicago and Los Alamos Ntl. Lab.
She studies the interaction of atoms with intense laser fields. The research lab where she did her thesis work is headed by Dr. Louis DiMauro and is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Juana first became a member of SACNAS in 1996. She has received fellowships to attend, present a poster and give an oral presentation at SACNAS’ annual conferences. Currently, Juana is a SACNAS Student Board Member. She is also a mentor, a Turner Fellow and an AGEP postdoc.
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Dr. Brisa Sanchez
Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD is Assistant Research Professor of Biostatistics at the
School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, where she joined after completing her degree in biostatistics at Harvard University. Her methodological research interests are on structural equation and latent variable models, and methods for clustered, multilevel data. She is interested also in innovative application of statistical methodology to the study of environmental and social determinants of health, and health disparities. At U of Michigan she collaborates with the Metals Epidemiology Research Group, and the Brain Attack Surveillance in Projects Corpus Christy, TX and in Durango, MX.
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Dr. Damaris Santana-Morant
Dámaris Santana-Morant was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. She earned a B.S. in computational mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao in 1989 and a M.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras in 1995. In the summer of 1997, she participated in the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute at Cornell University which inspired her to pursue a graduate degree in statistics. In 2001, she obtained a M.S. degree in biometry from Cornell University and in 2005 a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Florida, both with Dr. George Casella as her advisor. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. Her interests include statistical genetics and environmental statistics.
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Dr. Reinaldo Santos
Reinaldo Santos, born on March 21, 1984 in San Juan, PR has just completed a BA in Applied Physics at Universidad Metropolitana. He was a recipient of the MIE Scholarship. In 2003 and 2004, Santos conducted the research Using Normal Modes Analysis to Fill in Gap for HF Radial and Total Surfaces Current Vector Data Over Corpus Christi Bay, at UTEP and The Characterization Gausian Laser Beams Using High Resolution CCD Camera for Application in Ultrafast X-Ray Generation at University of Colorado. Recently in 2005, he was in the REU, Acoustic Excitation of Droplet Combustion at UCLA.
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Dr. Robin Selinger
Robin L. Blumberg Selinger grew up in Arlington, Texas. She completed her bachelor’s (1984) and PhD (1989) degrees in Physics at Harvard University, then pursued postdoctoral work at UCLA, Univ. of Maryland, and NIST. In 1995 she joined the Physics faculty at the Catholic University of America; and in 2005 she joined the Chemical Physics faculty at Kent State University at the rank of full professor. Her research interests include liquid crystals, fracture and plasticity in crystalline solids, and computational materials science. In her free time, Prof. Selinger enjoys working as a musician and music teacher. She is married and has two children.
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Dr. Elba Serrano
Elba Serrano PhD, Professor of Biology at NMSU, is a first generation college graduate who received her Physics undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester, and her Biological Sciences doctorate from Stanford University. Her research interests include neural regeneration, sensory systems, and nanobioscience. She has served as research advisor for over 70 undergraduate and graduate students, and has mentored over 40 participants in NIH (RISE, BRIDGES, MARC) and NSF (AGEP, AMP) programs that aim to increase the numbers of women and underrepresented minority scientists in STEM. Dr. Serrano serves on many advisory boards and NIH panels. Her honors include the NMSU Roush Teaching Excellence Award.
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Dr. Steve Simcik
Dr. Steve Simcik, Coordinator of Graduate and Pre-Vet Programs in the Office of Professional School Advising (OPSA), earned his B.S. and M.A. in Biology from Sam Houston State University, prior to coming to Texas A&M University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. His academic interests include host-parasite dynamics, lifecycle strategies, and diversity. Prior to joining OPSA, Dr. Simcik was an Academic Advisor and Lecturer in the Department of Biology, where he taught Introductory Biology and Human Anatomy and Physiology for three years.
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Dr. Ahna Skop
To Ahna Skop, the daughter of a sculptor and professor and of an art educator, science and art are intertwined. “I get excited by the beautiful images of biology. To me, it’s like looking at a Picasso!” exclaims Skop, who earned her Ph. D. from the UW-Madison and returned as a professor of Genetics in 2004. Skop recently made key insights into a cellular structure called the midbody during her postdoc at UC-Berkeley. Once dismissed by biologists as “cellular garbage,” Skop discovered that it contains important proteins that are necessary for normal cell division.
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Dr. Keivan Stassun
Keivan Stassun is assistant professor of astronomy at Vanderbilt University, with an adjunct position at Fisk University. Dr. Stassun serves as chair of the American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy. He is also co-director the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge program in which students may earn a Masters at Fisk and then transfer seamlessly to the PhD program at Vanderbilt. Dr. Stassun's research focuses on the formation of stars and planetary systems. He is a recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award.
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Dr. Jack Staub
Dr. Staub is a Professor of plant genetics at the University of Wisconsin where he trains graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the area of genetic mapping and application of molecular markers. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science, an editor for several scientific journals, and has served on univesity and national committees for the advancement of education and science. He has been involved with leadership development and management training in the public sector where he as taught classes for creating and managing success in the workplace.
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Dr. Bruce Tidor
Bruce Tidor graduated with an A.B. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College in 1983, and then received a Marshall Scholar award to study at Oxford University's Wolfson College, where he earned an M.Sc. in Biochemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard in 1990 and moved to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where he started his independent research as a Whitehead Fellow. In 1994 he was appointed to the faculty at MIT. Dr. Tidor's research focuses on the computational modelling and analysis of complex biological systems at the molecular and cellular level.
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Dr. JoAnn Trejo
JoAnn Trejo was born and raised in Stockton, California. She comes from a family of migrant farm workers and is the second in her family to receive a college degree. JoAnn Trejo, PhD is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. After graduating from the University of California, Davis, she completed her dissertation studies with Professor Joan Heller Brown at the University of California, San Diego. She then joined the laboratory of Professor Shaun Coughlin at the University of California, San Francisco for post-doctoral training until 1999. She moved to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in 2000 and received tenure in 2005. Dr. Trejo moved to the University of California, San Diego as a tenured Associate Professor in 2008.
The focus of Dr. Trejo’s research program is on understanding the biological function and regulation of protease-activated receptors, a family of GPCRs that are uniquely activated by proteolysis. Dr. Trejo has well-funded research program supported by the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association and the University of California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. She also heads a very productive and diverse research team composed of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates. In addition to research, Dr. Trejo is a dedicated and experienced teacher and mentor. She is also strongly committed to increasing the diversity of scientists in the life sciences and actively participates in national and campus recruitment initiatives aimed at increasing the number of outstanding students
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Dr. Jane Tucker
Jane Tucker, Ph.d, is the president of Jane W. Tucker & Associates. She has over 25 years of experience working with leaders in higher education and industry. Her interests include negotiations, coaching individual leaders and change management.
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Dr. Tim Turner
Mr. Tim Turner has been managing federally-funded programs for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) since 1986. His experience includes program management of fellowship programs that support graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and summer faculty participants sponsored by the Department of Defense (DOD), NASA, and the Department of Energy (DOE). In 2004, ASEE was awarded the contract to provide administrative support of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, at which time Mr. Turner was promoted to Program Director for ASEE’s GRF Operations Center. He provides management and oversight of all promotion and outreach activities, application processing support, and evaluation review activities. Mr. Turner holds a bachelor’s of landscape architecture from the University of Maryland.
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Dr. Wesley Uehara
Wesley Uehara is the Education Manager for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center headquartered at UCLA. His position deals with developing and running programs that form the Center’s educational pipeline. Specifically Mr. Uehara has successfully developed the Summer@CENS Research Scholars Program, a REU Program that has expanded to include a summer high school internship program as well as an academic year research program for undergraduates.
Wes comes from a background in education, counseling and diversity. Prior to joining CENS, Wes has gained experience creating and managing freshmen development programs and curriculum as an academic counselor for the Division of Undergraduate Education at the University of California Irvine as well as working with diverse populations as a manager for the Asian Pacific American Cultural Center at the University of Northern Colorado.
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Dr. Vigerust is a postdoctoral fellow in Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. His research involves elucidating the mechanisms of viral-bacterial synergism and the innate immune response to influenza. Dr. Vigerust was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. He received an M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology from Texas Tech University and his Ph.D from Vanderbilt University. During his graduate years, Dr. Vigerust was an Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Student Award recipient, FASEB minority peer mentor, adjunct faculty in microbiology at a local community college and his work was recognized by AAI and ASCB. He is a member of the St. Jude postdoctoral executive committee and the National Postdoctoral Association.
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Dr. Greg Villareal
Dr. Greg Villareal attended his first SACNAS conference in 1995 while completing his Bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 2006, he earned his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the University of California Los Angeles where he studied mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity utilizing electrophysiology techniques. Currently, Dr. Villareal holds a position as an associate scientist at Galenea Corporation, a biotechnology company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he focuses on developing novel therapeutics to treat patients suffering with Schizophrenia. Dr.Villareal is a SACNAS Life Member, serves on the chapter, Post Doc, and membership committees and is co-chair for the SACNAS Industry Advisory Council.
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Dr. James Washburne
James Washburne is the Asso.Dir. of Education for SAHRA, an NSF Science and Technology Center focused on better understanding semi-arid water resource management issues and transferring this knowledge to a wide range of stakeholders, from policy makers to water managers to students at all levels. Jim has been active in the GLOBE program nationally as well as many programs to promote hydrologic and scientific literacy throughout southern Arizona. Currently, he is developing watershed visualizations using GIS and 3-d software.
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Dr. Jory Weintraub
Jory Weintraub received a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from The University of California at San Diego and a PhD in Immunology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then received an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate science education and instructional technology (IT). Since then, his efforts have focused on undergraduate instruction, curriculum development, minority outreach, faculty development, education and IT research and program administration. He is currently the Science Education and Outreach Program Manager for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, NC.
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Dr. Laura Wetzel
Laura Reiser Wetzel, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Marine Science at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida. She has taught a wide variety of courses over her nine-year career at Eckerd, including Earth Structure, Earth Materials, Solid Earth Geophysics, and Introduction to Marine Science. Her research has focused on mid-ocean ridges, ranging from earthquake seismology to submarine hydrothermal vent geochemistry.
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Dr. Charlie Whittaker
Charlie Whittaker received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia for the study of the expression of cell adhesion molecules in amphibian embryos. He was then a post-doctoral fellow in the MIT Center for Cancer Research where he developed an interest in bioinformatics and worked on projects examining the evolution of protein families involved in cell adhesion. He then joined the Broad Institute where he participated in the comprehensive annotation and analysis of four human chromosomes. He is currently a member of the MIT Center for Cancer Research bioinformatics and computing core facility.
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Dr. Stephen Wirkus
Stephen Wirkus, Ph.D., completed his doctorate in August of 1999 in the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. Dr. Wirkus is interested in the study of nonlinear differential equations and works with both the theoretical and computational aspects. His publications include work on the pumping of a playground swing and the coupling of two van der Pol oscillators with delay coupling. Dr. Wirkus was the summer director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute at Cornell University in the summers of 1999-2003 with Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez. He is now co-director of the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute in Los Angeles.
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Dr. Michael Wright
Michael Wright is the science department chair at Center High School in Antelope, California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from UC Davis in Natural Resource Science with an emphasis in Wildlife Biology. He has taught Advanced Placement Biology for the last 18 years and has 23 years experience as a high school science teacher. Over the years he has instructed all major strands of science – physical, earth and life.
For the past three years, Michael has been working with the Center for Biophotonics, Science and Technology (CBST) in developing curriculum for high school biophotonics.
A pilot biophotonic program was conducted at Center High School in spring of 2004, followed by year-long, before and after school programs, during the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years.
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Dr. Hao Yan
Hao Yan received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Shandong University. He obtained a Ph.D degree in chemistry from New York University in 2001 under the guidance of Nadrian C. Seeman. He was an Assistant Research Professor in Computer Science department at Duke University from 2001 to 2004. He became an Assistant Professor in chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State University in 2004. He is also a principle investigator in the center for single molecule biophysics at the Biodesign Institute of ASU. Hao Yan’s research centers on self-assembly of nanostructures, particularly using DNA as an assembly element. His group is interested to use this new technology to develop molecular motors, sensors and templates for more complex nanostructural systems and biotechnology applications. His interests also include synthesis and characterization of novel nano/micro particles for multiplex biosensing and bioimaging.
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Dr. Luisa Zambrano
Native from Colombia, Graduated from a high school specialized in arts in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Recently became the first female to graduate from a BSc. in Applied Physics at Universidad Metropolitana. In 2003 became an MIE Scholar and a Ronald McNair Scholar, Luisa Fernanda is also a junior member of the AAS and started a Masters in Space Studies at International Space University, Strasbourg, France; to later pursue a PhD in Astrophysics. Her main goal is to become an active leader and a supportive mentor to raising scientist, so we are able to improve our society for the well being of future generations.
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Dr. Michael Zarate
Michael Zarate is a professor of Psychology at UT El Paso. He earned his Ph.D. at Purdue University, and has been at UTEP since 1990. He serves on the APA Minority Fellowship advisory committee and is associate editor of Cultural Diveristy and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
His research involves social cognition, stereotyping, and prejudice.
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Dr. Maria Elena Zavala
MariaElena Zavala was born in LaVerne California. She earned a BA from Pomona Collge and a Ph.D. from UC Berkely both in Botany. Currently, she is professor at California State University, her group conducts research on plant hormone metabolism, and she directs several NIH sponsored projects that are aimed at increasing minority participation in basic biomedical sciences. She has been recognized locally, regionally, and nationally for her effective mentoring.
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