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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 millis
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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
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Dr. Nancy Aguilar-Roca
Nancy Aguilar-Roca earned her Ph.D. 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 curri
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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, rol
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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 exam
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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 popu
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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.
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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 Universit
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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),
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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 curre
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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 W
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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 num
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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
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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 Part
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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 Sch
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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 awa
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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
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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 huma
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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.
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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
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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 ju
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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 Cance
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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 (UTS
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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 f
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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 collea
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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 Asso
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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 Hi
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Dr. Ignacio Camarillo
Ignacio G. Camarillo, Ph.D., 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.
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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 EDUCATIO
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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 State
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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,
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Dr. John Chaney
John M. Chaney, Ph.D., 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 Psyc
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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
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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
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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
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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 dynami
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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 Intrins
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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 Factoriza
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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
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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. Bot
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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
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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 Unive
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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 Sa
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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 through
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Dr. Geoffrey Fox
Fox received a Ph.D. 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
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Dr. Claire Fraser
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D., 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 1
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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 scient
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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
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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 workfl
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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 fro
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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
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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 scient
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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 biogen
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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, Minn
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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
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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
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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
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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 gr
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Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer
Margaret Hiza Redsteer is project chief of the USGS “Navajo Land Use Planning Project”, at the Flagstaff Science Center in Arizona. She works on the Navajo Nation, conducting geologic mapping, climate and land use history, and assessing drought impacts,
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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 Gen
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Dr. Jani Ingram
Jani C. Ingram, Ph. D. 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 a
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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 o
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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
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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 complet
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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
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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 ti
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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
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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.
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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. Sin
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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
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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 an
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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 f
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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-doc
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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
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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 ma
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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
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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 publi
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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
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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
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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 Un
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Dr. Norma Neely, Ed.D.
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 Committee
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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 charac
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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
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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 A
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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 bio
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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
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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 U
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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 th
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Dr. Teresa Ramirez
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Dr. Idalia Ramos
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Dr. Leslie Randall
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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 Universi
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Dr. Raymond Reid
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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, i
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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
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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
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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
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Dr. Carlos Robles
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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
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Dr. Alberto Roca
Dr. Roca is 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
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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
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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 SM
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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 C
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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 sy
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Dr. Hugo Rossi
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Dr. Mark Roy
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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
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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) st
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Dr. Eric Salazar
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Dr. Asbury Sallenger
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Dr. Rosario Sanay
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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 interes
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Dr. Yolanda Sanchez
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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.
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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 Fi
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Dr. Michelle Sarche
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Dr. Mandana Sassanfar
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Dr. Denise Sekaquaptewa
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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 facult
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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 i
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Dr. Michael Sesma
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Dr. Scott Shumway
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Dr. Regina Sievert
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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.
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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-Ma
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Dr. Michael Snyder
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Dr. Elena Sparrow
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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-
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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 Horticult
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Dr. Jan Stephens
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Dr. Claudina Stevenson
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Dr. Richard Tankersley
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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 Bioph
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Dr. Cynthia Tobery
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Dr. Elizabeth Torres
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Dr. Raymond Torres
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Dr. JoAnn Trejo
JoAnn Trejo, Ph.D. is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her Ph.D. from UC San Diego and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at UC San Francisco.
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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, a
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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 educatio
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Dr. David Vannier
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Dr. Esther Vega
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Dr. Aaron Velasco
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Dr. Leticia Velazquez
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Dr. William Velez
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Dr. Manuel Venegas
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Dr. Brit Ventura
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Dr. Ivonne Vidal Pizarro
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Dr. David Vigerust
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. Viger
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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 me
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Dr. Antonia Villarruel
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Dr. Enrique Vivoni
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Dr. Becca Walker
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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
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Dr. Vanessa Watts
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Dr. Richard Weibl
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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 i
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Dr. Maggie Werner-Washburne
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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 Ge
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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 i
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Dr. Betty Williams, Dr.P.H.
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Dr. Robin Wilson
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Dr. Sacoby Wilson
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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
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Dr. Marlys Witte
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Dr. Terry Woodin
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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 Biol
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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
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Dr. Lidia Yoshida
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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 Sc
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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 Mi
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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
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