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Dr. Guillermo Acosta
Dr. Acosta was raised in El Paso, Texas, and would work seasonally on the family farm near Anthony, New Mexico. Originally, he studied architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. After switching majors and institutions a couple of times, he earned a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics. While an undergrad, he was awarded a scholarship from the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities, which provided him exposure to research involving ultra-thin film physics. Dr. Acosta earned master's and doctorate degrees in physics from Brigham Young University, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of Colorado at Boulder where he is involved with research involving graphene and atomic layer deposition. Away from work, Dr. Acosta bakes, welds, pampers three cats, and has an insatiable appetite for 59 and 60 Impalas and El Caminos.
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Dr. Andres Aguilar
Dr. Aguilar is an assistant professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced. Research in his lab focuses on the application of molecular techniques to answer questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. He received his B.S. from Humboldt State University and his Ph.D. from UCLA. He is a former UC President's postdoctoral fellow and a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow.
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Dr. Carmen Aguilar
Associate Scientist, began with interests in Origins of Life and chemical evolution from early formation of the planet to present hydrothermal systems of Yellowstone Lake. She earned both her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) in Mexico City. An interdisciplinary outlook, developed through international workshops, lured her from México to the UW-Milwaukee Center for Great Lakes Studies to obtain the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biogeochemistry) in 1992.
Geobiology and plankton dynamics are an integral component of her research, from biogeothermal characteristics of Yellowstone Lake to small kettle lakes and open-water Lake Michigan effects of invasive filter feeders on plankton ecology.
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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. Renato Aguilera
Dr. Renato Aguilera obtained his Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of Texas (UTEP) in his home town of El Paso, Texas. He subsequently received an NSF Fellowship and obtained a Ph.D. in Immunology from UC Berkeley in 1987. After two years as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, he started his first faculty position in 1989 at UCLA where he achieved tenure. In 2002, he moved back to UTEP were he serves as the Director of the Biology Graduate Program and RISE and SCORE Programs. His research has been continuously funded by grants from the NSF, NIH, and non-profit foundations in the areas of Molecular Biology and Immunology. For additional information and a complete list of publications, please see www.utep.edu/biology.
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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. John Alderete
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Dr. Jean Alupay
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Dr. George Alvarez
Dr. George A. Alvarez (A.B. in Psychology, Princeton University, 1998; Ph.D. in Psychology, Harvard University 2005; NRSA postdoctoral fellow, 2005-2008, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he is co-director of the Vision Sciences Laboratory. He is also a member of the governing board and co-chair of the diversity committee for CELEST, an NSF science of learning center. Dr. Alvarez has several research interests in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an emphasis on understanding our cognitive resources: what are our cognitive capacity limitations, how should we characterize them, how do they constrain different cognitive processes, and how can we train and improve our cognitive abilities? His research uses human behavioral experiments, functional imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and computational modeling to explore the cognitive and neural processes underlying limitations on cognitive processing.
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Dr. Juan Arroyo
Dr. Arroyo was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. After working in the private industry for several years, Juan got his doctorate degree in molecular biology, microbiology and biochemistry from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
As a graduate assistant, Dr. Arroyo has studied signal transduction and apoptosis and the protection exerted by placenta growth factor (PlGF) in cultured human trophoblast. In his postdoctoral training, Juan worked on a model to measure rat tropholast cell invasion in the rat and more recently he has been working on the role of eNOS and apoptosis in a hyperthermia ovine model of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). Dr. Arroyo is an instructor in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
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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. Jake Bailey
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Dr. Antonio Baptista
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Dr. Robert Barnhill
Robert Barnhill, Ph.D., received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, both in mathematics. At the University of Utah, he helped create Computer Aided Geometric Design, which utilizes applied mathematics and computer graphics to describe free form curves, surfaces and higher-dimensional volumes. More recently he was Vice President for Research for Arizona State University, KU and University of Texas System. He has always emphasized teambuilding and robust collaborations amongst diverse people and constituencies. E.g., with his wife Marigold Linton, he helped Haskell Indian Nations University and KU form a national model for collaboration.
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Dr. Melina Barona
Melina Barona is the Diversity & Education Programs Associate for the Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS). The WaterCAMPWS is a Science and Technology Center funded by the National Science Foundation. The central mission of the WaterCAMPWS is to develop new materials and systems for safely and economically purifying water for human use. Prior to her role with the WaterCAMPWS, Ms. Barona worked as Assistant Director for the Illinois International High School Initiative. She has worked abroad in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. In addition to her work abroad, Ms. Barona has also studied abroad, receiving a Fulbright to study in Bulgaria in 2003. Ms. Barona received her M.Ed. in School Administration from Vanderbilt University in 2000.
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Dr. Diane Baxter
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Dr. Tanya Beat
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Dr. David Begay
David Begay’s Biography
David Begay, Ph.D., is founding co-director of Indigenous Education Institute. He is also co-developer of the Navajo constellation cylinder for portable star lab. Administratively, he held the offices of Dean of Instruction, Assistant Vice-President of Academic Affairs, and Assistant to the President of Dine’ College (formerly Navajo Community College). He also held other positions within Dine’ College including faculty, academic chair, and researched curriculum and planning models based on the native ways of knowing. Dr. Begay has presented seasonally-related Navajo astronomy to local communities aimed at providing self-identity, self-awareness, and self-determination. He presented star shows using the portable planetarium in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, and California to students and for teacher training. In addition, he presented cultural astronomy in England, Wales, and Norway. He also participates in Informal Science Dialogues with leading scientists and tribal knowledge holders, sponsored by Fetzer Institute, and NASA. He currently works with NASA educational outreach programs on several projects. He also taught for Prescott College, University of Arizona, and University of Alaska, Fairbanks (distance learning program). He is Navajo and lives in Ganado, Arizona.
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Dr. Lynne Bemis
Dr. Bemis is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She earned a degree in Biology from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Her pre-doctoral work was at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Department of Women's Pathology. The focus of her Ph.D. thesis was the regulation of gene transcription, earned with honors in Biochemistry from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. She has experience working in biochemistry, molecular biology and molecular genetics with a focus on the genetics of cancer. Additionally, she is a member of the faculty and Co-investigator on the NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute) funded project GENA GENA is a team taught genetic education curriculum, which addresses cultural concerns about genetics and provides necessary background information in genetics. Dr. Bemis actively conducts laboratory research focusing on cellular and genetic changes in cancer, publishing journal articles describing her research, and has presented talks nationally and internationally. Her in depth research currently is in the application of nanotechnology to early detection of cancer (funded by NSF). In addition, she has developed a large program studying the expression of microRNAs in Cancer (funded by the Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust). , Genetic Education for Native Americans.
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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. Denise Benoit Moctezuma
Ms. Benoit-Moctezuma has many years of experience managing and coordinating various public health education projects; assisting in development and publication of curricula/educational materials for health professionals and families in the area of cancer education and diabetes prevention/education; and has conducted many pilot studies to evaluate the effectiveness of health educational materials and programs in the community. For the past three years, she has served as program supervisor/extension educator with the University of Maryland and Maryland Cooperative Extension. She is one of the authors of the 7-3-3-1 curriculum, provides instructional/content support and cultural competency training to new instructors, and is involved in the evaluation component of the 7-3-3-1 curriculum and program.
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Dr. Will Berelson
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Dr. C Gita Bosch
C. Gita Bosch
Associate Dean, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School
Associate Director, Graduate Studies, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
C. Gita Bosch is the Associate Dean of Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in 2003 to work with the leadership to create the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. At MSKCC, she is responsible for graduate and undergraduate education/training programs in the basic sciences. She has been involved in graduate education administration since 1990 when she joined the Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she was responsible for the administration of the MD/PhD program, the PhD program, undergraduate and high school research programs, and the Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program. She served as the underrepresented minority student advocate at Mount Sinai and now at MSKCC.
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Dr. David Braaten
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Dr. Emilio Bruna
Bruna has joint appointments in the University of Florida’s Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation and Center for Latin American Studies. He and his students conduct research on the consequences of human activities such as deforestation and habitat fragmentation for plant-animal interactions and plant population dynamics; most of their research is conducted in tropical ecosystems such as the Amazon, the Cerrado, and the rain forests of Central America. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of California-San Diego and a Ph.D. in Population Biology at the University of California-Davis.
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Dr. Daniel Bullock
Daniel Bullock earned his B.A. at Reed College and his Ph.D. at Stanford. After teaching psychology at U. Denver, he joined the Center for Adaptive Systems at Boston University, where he is Associate Professor in, and a founding member of, the Cognitive & Neural Systems Department. He is also in the Program in Neuroscience, and a co-Director of the NSF-sponsored CELEST (Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology). His teaching and research center on computational models of the neural circuits for voluntary planning, decision and action in primates. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles.
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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. 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. Ana Cristina Cadavid
Ana Cristina Cadavid received the B. S. degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1983 and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984
and 1989, respectively. She then did post-doctoral work at UCLA and CERN under a fellowship of the ICSC World Laboratory, (1989-1991). In 1991 she took a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge. She was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to full professor in 1998. She has been Department Chair since 2006. Cadavid's research work has focused on various problems: the scaling symmetry of the spatial and temporal structures of solar magnetic and velocity fields, in order to understand the properties of the underlying solar turbulence; the relation between kinetic and magnetic processes in the solar surface and the heating of the solar atmosphere; the relation between observed magnetic fields and the fields generated by a dynamo mechanism inside the Sun; the properties and origin of the quiet Sun; the effects of solar variability on the earth’s global temperature.
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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. Judit Camacho
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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. Ismana Carney
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Dr. Alan Carsrud
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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. Jorge Cham
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Dr. Deborah Cohen
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Dr. Paul Coleman
Paul Coleman received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Notre Dame and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in astrophysics from the University of Pittsburgh. He has received awards for teaching and research, and has held positions at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Virginia Tech, the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in The Netherlands, and Yale University – among others. He is currently an associate astrophysicist at the University of Hawai`i Institute for Astronomy. Paul is also the Institute’s project scientist for the Faulkes Telescope North, the world's largest telescope dedicated to K-12 students in England and the state of Hawai`i.
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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. Jose de la Torre
Dr. José de la Torre is a microbial ecologist at San Francisco State University, where he studies microorganisms involved in the global geochemical cycling of Nitrogen. In particular, he has focused on understanding the physiology, ecology and evolution of a group of microorganisms known as the Archaea that have recently been shown to generate energy by aerobically oxidizing ammonia to nitrite. These poorly understood organisms appear to be important players in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. Dr. de la Torre's work involves extensive field work which takes him to places like the open ocean, Antarctica and Yellowstone National Park.
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Dr. Jane Dell'Amore
Jane Dell’Amore has been on the staff of the National Research Council of the National Academies since 1974. Her first five years were spent in the Office of International Affairs working on the exchange program with the former USSR and its aligned countries. After transferring to the Associateship Programs office in 1979, she assumed the position of Supervisor of Operations, which included overseeing the processing of all applications for Postdoctoral Research Awards. In addition, she has been responsible for promoting the Programs in the scientific community, including coordinating attendance at professional scientific meetings and conferences. With the recent merger of the Research Associateship Programs Office with the Fellowships Office, Ms. Dell’Amore assumed the responsibility for coordinating all publicity and outreach activities for the Ford Fellowship Programs in addition to the Postdoctoral Research Associateship Programs. With the merger, the Associateship Programs has added seven meetings to its list of outreach activities, all of which target minority audiences. Jane is looking forward to the challenge of working with the staff in recruiting more minority applicants to the Programs. In her spare time, Jane enjoys doing volunteer work with the elderly, foreign travel, and creating beaded jewelry.
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Dr. Mario Diaz
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Dr. Leonardo Duenas osorio
Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He obtained his Master degree from MIT in 2001, and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005, both in Civil and Environmental Engineering. His major fields of study span the theoretical and computational modeling of complex infrastructure networks, as well as the risk and reliability assessment of interdependent lifeline systems. Dr. Dueñas-Osorio also conducts research on wind turbine reliability, intelligent infrastructures, and bridge-network performance predictions. He received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2006, and the NSF CAREER award for young investigators in 2008. Dr. Duenas-Osorio is Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Complex Systems Society.
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Dr. John Fernandez
Dr. John D. Fernandez is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and an Executive Member of the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions. Dr. Fernandez has a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and an M.S. from West Virginia University. He completed his B.A. in mathematics at Texas A&M–Kingsville. Dr. Fernandez is a native South Texan who spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, finishing his career at the Pentagon while serving in the Office of Secretary of Defense. Dr. Fernandez also held several executive positions with engineering consulting firms.
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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. Maria Franco
Dr. Franco holds a PhD and MS in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University and a BS in Mathematics from Universidad del Valle (Colombia, South America). Her research focuses on problems of nonlinear elasticity, calculus of variations and numerical analysis. From giving lectures to organizing workshops to collaborating in REU programs, Dr. Franco is actively involved in activities that seek to increase the number of women and minorities in the mathematical sciences; increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics; address issues relevant to educational equity, in particular issues relevant to under-served populations, youth placed at risk and incarcerated youth.
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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. 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. Miguel Goni
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Dr. Don Gonzales
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Dr. Michael Gonzales
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Dr. Jose Gonzalez
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Dr. Lino Gonzalez
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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. Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr
Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr. is a mathematical statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has contributed to the development of sampling designs and estimation procedures for various multistage national health surveys. He has worked in statistical disclosure limitation, disclosure risk, and data quality issues that result from perturbations used to mask confidential data. He is adjunct associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). In 2005, he received UMUC’s Teaching Recognition Award. On May 16, 2009, he will receive the UMUC Stanley Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. He has authored/coauthored several scientific publications, including “Approaches to Modeling the Concentration Field for Adaptive Sampling of Contaminants during Site Decontamination,” which appears in the Springer Monograph Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism (2006). He is an elected member of the International Statistics Institute and has been an invited guest speaker at the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, UCLA, The George Washington University, and other universities. He has a B.S. in mathematics from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, and an M.S. in statistics from The George Washington University. His biosketch appears in Marquis Who’s Who in America 2004-2009 and in Who’s Who in the World 2006-2009.
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Dr. Rudy Guerra
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Dr. Benjamin Gutierrez
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Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez
Rochelle Gutiérrez’ research focuses on equity in mathematics education, race/class/language issues in teaching and learning, effective teacher communities, and social justice. She has served as a member of the RAND National Mathematics Study Panel and the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Increasing Urban High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn. Recently, she was a Fulbright scholar researching collective teacher practice among secondary mathematics teachers in Zacatecas, México. She currently serves as a member of the design team for the National Research Council’s Strategic Educational Research Program/Minority Student Achievement Network. Before and throughout graduate school, she taught middle and high school mathematics to adolescents in East San José, California. Her work has been published in such journals as Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Journal of Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Journal, and the Urban Review.
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Dr. Jo Handelsman
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Dr. Mark Hannink
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Dr. John Harada
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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. Amy Hegarty
Amy Hegarty serves in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service as a Program Analyst in the Recruitment Staff. With a Bachelor's degree in Personnel/Labor Relations from the University of Maryland as well as 19 years of Federal service, she brings her knowledge of human resource operations into the recruiting arena. In this session, Amy shares tips on how applicants can better navigate the federal application process, including preparation of the federal resume, development of KSA responses, and searching for jobs.
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Dr. Robert Hemenway
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Dr. Nancy Houfek
Nancy Houfek has served as a consultant to professional speakers throughout the United States since 1978. She has presented workshops for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard Medical School, and The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, as well as for many clients in the private sector. A film of her work with Harvard faculty, "The Act of Teaching," has been produced by the Bok Center for national distribution to faculty development centers.
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Dr. Yvette Huet-Hudson
Dr. Yvette M. Huet-Hudson received B.A.s in Human Biology and Microbiology from the University of Kansas. She then went on to get her Ph.D. degree in Physiology from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. While a graduate student she received an NSF Minority Graduate Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Dr. Huet-Hudson completed postdoctoral training at Monsanto Company in St. Louis, MO. Currently, Dr. Huet-Hudson is Professor of Biology at UNC Charlotte. Her research currently focuses on early embryo development, embryo-uterine interactions, the role of gonadal steroids in immune function and the effects of environmental estrogens on development and adult disease.
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Dr. Marcus Huggans
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Dr. Jim Hutchison
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Dr. Warner Ithier
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Dr. Carl Jackson
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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. Marilyn Johnson
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Dr. Eric Jolly
Dr. Eric Jolly is President and CEO of the Science Museum of Minnesota. Jolly came from the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, where he served as Senior Scientist and vice president. His participation on numerous advisory boards and initiatives of the National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Science, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, and the National Science Teachers Association, has made him a respected leader and advocate throughout the science education field. Dr. Jolly is also a widely published author of many scholarly articles, books, and curricula on science learning, its importance in the contemporary world, and the importance of diverse and widespread participation in STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-and Math).
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Dr. Joel Kamnitzer
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Dr. Dagan Karp
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Dr. Carter Kimsey
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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. Gerard Lazo
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Dr. Paul Lichtman, PharmD.
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Dr. Jacqueline Liederman
Dr. Jacqueline Liederman is a Professor in the Brain, Behavior and Cognition Program at Boston University (BU). She also has joint appointments in the Applied Linguistics Program, Program in Neurosciences, the Behavioral Neurosciences Program, and is an adjunct to the Center for Adaptive Systems. She is a Past Director of the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition Program at BU. Professor Liederman has three main research interests. First, her work examines the behavioral and neural correlates of reading and reading related behaviors in people with and without a history of reading disability. Second, she is interested in the dynamics of interhemispheric cooperation in normal and diseased brains. Third, she is interested in the prenatal origins of neurodevelopmental disorders, especially as it relates to male vulnerability to such disorders. Her research is currently funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation for a Center of Excellence in Learning Education, Science and Technology (CELEST). She also serves on the Board of Directors of CELEST in her capacity as Director of Diversity Outreach.
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Dr. Ian Lipkin
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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. Paul Loya
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Dr. Yuri Lyubchenko
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Dr. Ruth MacDonald
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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. Paul Marchese
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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. Luis Marky
At the professional level, Dr. Marky lectures in Medicinal Chemistry I where he is the course coordinator, Medicinal Chemistry II, and one elective course "Therapeutic Applications of Proteins and Nucleic Acids". At the graduate level, Dr. Markey is the course coordinator for Quantitative Pharmaceutical Analysis and Biophysical Chemistry. In addition, he lectures in Advanced Medicinal Chemistry, and Macromolecular Structure and Function. Dr. Marky is a former Fulbright Scholar (Peru-98).
Research Activities/Interests:
The research interests of Dr. Marky are in the area of biophysical chemistry and focus on the molecular forces that control the conformational stability and flexibility of nucleic acids, including Okazaki fragments, hairpin loops, intramolecular triplexes, G-quadruplexes, C-quadruplexes, and three- & four-arm DNA junctions and their interaction with drugs. One objective is to improve the delivery of oligonucleotides into cells and drugs, by using natural and synthetic polymers, to block gene expression. His research group is also investigating the role of water on the conformational stability of biomolecules by examining sequence hydration effects in nucleic acids, drug-nucleic acid complexes, DNA covalent adducts, and protein-DNA interactions.
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Dr. Leticia Marquez-Magaña
Dr. Leticia Márquez-Magaña is a Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She earned her BS/MS degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, her PhD in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley, and completed her post-doctoral training at the Stanford Medical Center before joining the SFSU faculty in 1994. Márquez-Magaña has been a highly visible role model and advocate for underrepresented minority students in the sciences at SFSU and nationally. This dedication has been unwavering since serving on the SACNAS Board as a graduate student, and she received the AAAS Mentor Award in 2001 for her work in science equity.
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Dr. Catalina Martinez
Catalina grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography with a master’s degree in Oceanography in 2000. She obtained a second master’s degree from URI in Marine Affairs in 2002. Catalina’s path to the field of ocean sciences was not a direct one, as she spent many years working with urban school children and victims of domestic violence prior to studying oceanography. While in graduate school, Catalina also developed and implemented marine science classroom and ship-based programs in which students and teachers were introduced to the marine environment. This work was mainly conducted through URI’s Office of Marine Programs.
Since completing graduate school, Catalina has been working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration (OE), first as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Sea Grant Fellow and then as a full-time employee. OE serves as a funding agency within NOAA, supporting oceanographic expeditions to explore regions of the world’s ocean we know little or nothing about. Catalina wears many hats in her position, but works predominantly as a project manager/expedition coordinator, and manages the regional office in Rhode Island as the liaison between NOAA OE, URI and the Institute for Exploration. She also works as part of the outreach and education team, focusing on work with underrepresented groups. Some of Catalina’s work with NOAA OE has taken her on research cruises to explore seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska and the North Atlantic, map regions of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, investigate deep sea habitats in the Gulf of Mexico, and revisit the Titanic with Dr. Robert Ballard. Please see the NOAA Ocean Explorer Web site (www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov) for details pertaining to each major expedition.
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Dr. Jennifer Martinez
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Dr. JV Martinez
Dr. Joseph V. Martinez (“J.V.”), a founder and former SACNAS president, is Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Martinez received his Bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University (NAU), a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Oregon State University, a Master's of Management Science from the MIT on a Sloan Fellowship and completed a post doctorate at Cornell University. In May, 2007 he was awarded a honorary Doctor of Science degree by Youngstown State University, his second having received his first from NAU. Dr. Martinez has been a professor of physics and a program manager in the DOE Office of Science before becoming Senior Science Advisor. He is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Dr. Neo Martinez
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Dr. Kermin Martinez Hernandez
Kermin Joel Martinez-Hernandez attended his first SACNAS conference in 2006 as a graduate student at Purdue University, IN where he is currently a graduate student. He enjoyed a lot the conference at Tampa, Florida and he consider the best conference ever in which he felt welcoming for the first time in a National Conference. This was one of the motivation factors to apply for a SACNAS National Board graduate student position open in this conference, where he later was elected. His research is about the use and effectiveness of a video game for teaching chemistry concepts. Currently, he is the President of the Puerto Rican Student Association and Vice-President of SACNAS Student Chapter at Purdue University. He serves on the membership committee as well.
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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. Audeliz Matias
Audeliz Matias
Skidmore College
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor
Audeliz, or Audi like her friends call her, grew up in Añasco, Puerto Rico and moved to the United States in 2000 to pursue her doctoral degree in geological sciences at Northwestern University. Audi’s career choice did not take her family for surprise. While watching a seismologist talking on the local news at age 13, she told her mom she wanted to be a geologist. Audi obtained a B.S and M.S in geology from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, the only institution of higher education e that offers a degree on geology in the island. Her research involved the use of Global Positioning System and laser altimetry topography to assess digital elevation models for Puerto Rico. After a summer internship at the NASA-Goddard Space Center in 1998 where she worked with Dr. James B. Garvin analyzing topography data from Mars, she decided to focus on planetary science in her doctoral dissertation. Over the past six years her research has concentrated on the study of craters caused by the impact of asteroids on the surfaces of Venus and Mars. Currently, Audi is expanding her research focus to include science education, especially that involving the Spanish speaking community and women in science.
At Skidmore College since 2005, Audi has taught courses on Earth systems science, exploration of the solar system, global tectonics, and women in science.
She is also a member of the Intercultural and Global Understanding Task Force and is presently organizing a workshop to break the diversity communication barrier among science faculty at Skidmore during this fall.
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Dr. Catherine Mavriplis
Catherine Mavriplis holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. She was a tenured professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University from 1991 to 2005. Dr. Mavriplis served as a Program Director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation for two years. Currently, she is a Research Scientist at the University of Oklahoma and the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. Her specialty is computational fluid dynamics. She has also been working to advance women in Science and Engineering academia through three NSF-funded ADVANCE awards.
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Dr. Elliot Mcgucken
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Dr. Cecilia McHugh
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Dr. José María Menéndez Gómez
José María received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Virginia Tech in 2007. After three years at the University of Arizona where he held a postdoctoral Fellowship position at CEMELA (Center for Mathematics Education of Latinos/Latinas), José María joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Radford University as an assistant professor of mathematics education. José María’s current research projects include parental engagement and parent’s perceptions of teaching and learning mathematics, nonformal settings for adult education, and teacher study groups as a model for professional development, all these in the context of mathematics education of Latina/o students.
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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. Sharon Milgram
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Dr. James Mills
Dr. Mills is Chief of the Medical Ecology Unit, Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His research during the last 20 years has been an investigation of the ecological factors associated with the emergence of human disease caused by the small-mammal borne hemorrhagic fever viruses, their transmission within animal host populations, and their occassional transfer to human populations.
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Dr. Ennio Mingolla
Dr. Ennio Mingolla (A.B. Harvard College 1973, Philosophy and Social Relations; M.Ed. Boston University 1978, Educational Media and Technology; Ph.D. University of Connecticut 1983, Experimental Psychology) is Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology at Boston University. He is a co-holder of a patent for a neural network architecture for vision and image processing and member of the editorial boards of Neural Networks and Ecological Psychology. Dr. Mingolla’s work has crossed several disciplines, including perceptual psychology, neuroscience, and computational vision. Dr. Mingolla has served on the program committees or been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences.
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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. Yolanda Mock Hawkins
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Dr. Victor Moll
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Dr. Gabriel Montano
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Dr. Beronda Montgomery
Beronda Montgomery, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Energy – Plant Research Lab and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. She received a Ph.D. in Plant Biology in 2001 from the University of California at Davis. Dr. Montgomery was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for her postdoctoral studies at Indiana University and recently was awarded an NSF CAREER Award. Her long-term research interest is to understand the dynamic molecular processes utilized by photosynthetic organisms for adapting to changes in their photoenvironment.
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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. Hector Morales
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Dr. Yolanda Munoz Maldonado
Yolanda Munoz Maldonado was born in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on June 19, 1970. She received a B.S. degree in 1997 from the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan in Mathematical Education and a M.S. degree in Statistics in 2000 from The University of Texas at El Paso. She earned a Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A\&M University in August 2005t. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas-Houston. Her research interests include
Functional Data Analysis, Mixed-effects Models and Kalman Filtering.
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Dr. Juan Noveron
Dr. Noveron was born in México and migrated with his family to the United States when he was fourteen years old. He obtained a B.A. in Chemistry from California State University Long Beach and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2000. He then became a NIH postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah. In 2003, he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. He credits his mentors, many of whom are members of SACNAS, for his career success, and his parents for making it all possible.
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Dr. Omayra Ortega
Her research interests include using differential equations-based mathematical modeling to better understand potential mechanisms for control of rotavirus with a focus on vaccination in underdeveloped countries. She is also interested in exploring the epidemiology of other infectious diseases where she can apply this method of modeling, especially emerging or re-emerging diseases that are presenting new challenges to the American public health community, while exploring other methods of modeling as well.
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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. Raj Pandya
Rajul Pandya is the director of UCAR's Community Building Program, which builds institutional relationships that increase the diversity and societal relevance of the atmospheric and related sciences. Pandya is also director of SOARS, an internship program to broaden participation in the atmospheric and related sciences through research experience, mentoring, and a strong learning community. He serves as coordinator of UCAR's Africa Initiative, which supports atmospheric research and applications in West Africa through capacity building and collaborative research. Pandya's past scientific work examined thunderstorm organization, and his teaching has focused on enabling students to learn by working directly with visualizations.
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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. 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. 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. 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. Eloy Rodriguez
Dr. Eloy Rodriguez is a Chicano born in South Texas. His mother’s ancestral roots going back to the early 1700s in Texas and his father was a Mexican citizen who came as a bracero to the U.S. Dr. Rodriguez grew up with over 60 cousins, of which 11 received PHds and Masters. Dr. Rodriguez received his PHd from the University of Texas, Austin and was a Canadian Medical Postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. He was at UC Irvine for 18 years before being awarded the James A. Perkins Endowed Professorship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Dr. Rodriguez has published 163 research articles, co-authored 2 books and has lectured (over 500 lectures) throughout the world. He is presently supported by NSF and NIH, and conducts research in chemical ecology of tropical and desert organisms and medicinal chemistry of natural products and glycoproteins. His health focus is cancer (breast and pancreatic) and diabetes type 2 control by natural drugs. He has produced over 15 PHd students and has trained hundreds of undergraduate students (minority and majority) at UCI and Cornell and exposed the students to the jungles and indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Mexico, Caribbean and Africa. Dr. Rodriguez also created and established the KIDS science program (Kids Investigating and Discovering Science) for K-12 Chicanos/as, Native Americans and African Americans.
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Dr. Robert Rodriguez
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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. Sarah Rosa
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Dr. Nahyr Rovira Figueroa
Nahyr Rovira-Figueroa grew up in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She received her Bachelor and Masters Degree in Chemistry from University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus in 1998 and 2001 respectively. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Science Education. Nahyr possess a secondary school chemistry teaching license and worked as a high school chemistry teacher for 2 years. She has been involved in science fairs, Gifted Education Resource Institute, SACNAS, American Chemical Society, different student organizations, and other professional and national organizations. Mrs. Rovira-Figueroa recognizes that in the past, there have been many claims made about the value of laboratory work in high school chemistry courses. Especially when educators have emphasized that laboratory work helps students engage in scientific reasoning, such as critically evaluating data, debating ideas, and supporting claims with evidence. Her primary research interest is to investigate how student’s perceptions/attitudes, integrated laboratory/classroom instruction, and the type of laboratory activities/experiments affected high school chemistry students’ ability to write effective laboratory reports.
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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. Everett Salas
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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. Ramon Sanchez Pina
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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. Sergio Sanudo wilhelmy
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Dr. Edith Seier
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Dr. Gayle Slaughter
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Dr. Jorge Soberon
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Dr. Francisco Solis
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Dr. Ana Maria Soto
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Dr. Debra Stalk
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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. Brandilyn Stigler
The oldest of 6 children, Brandilyn grew up in west Texas with second-generational roots in Mexico and India. She received a B.S. and an M.S. in mathematics from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Virginia Tech for her interdisciplinary work at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. She recently completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University. She is currently Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her research involves the use of computational algebra for the reverse engineering of gene networks.
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Dr. Richard Tapia
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Dr. Nathan Therien
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Dr. Patrick Thomas
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Dr. Raymond Torres
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Dr. Barbara Triplett
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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. Mauricio Ulloa
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Dr. Bill Valdez
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Dr. Mariel Vazquez
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Dr. Aaron Velasco
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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. 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. Alex Villacorta
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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. Helena Viramontes
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Dr. Linda Sue Warner
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Dr. Lee Warren
Dr. Lee Warren is Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, where she has worked since 1988. Providing teaching support to faculty and graduate student teaching assistants, she works on issues of group process, consults with groups and individuals, leads workshops and seminars, and makes videotapes for training sessions. Her particular interests center around leadership, classroom diversity, and case teaching.
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Dr. Gary Webber
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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. Talithia Williams
Talithia was born and reared in Columbus, Georgia. As a high school student, she excelled in the sciences and was active in the marching band and student government. A graduate of Spelman College with B.S. in mathematics and Howard University with a M.S. in mathematics, Talithia recently received her Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University in August 2007. She is currently a Lecturer in the Rice University Statistics department.
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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. Beatriz Xoconostle
Born on August 18th, 1963 in Mexico City. She is Biologist from the UNAM and got her master and PhD degrees in Genetics and Plant Biotechnology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN (Cinvestav). Currently, Beatriz Xoconostle is Research scientist at Cinvestav and belongs to the National Research System. She is interested in understanding the molecular basis of cellular communication in plants and mycorrhizal symbionts. Her team has also studied the differential gene expression under drought stress of common bean cultivars, assisting the selection of drought tolerant cultivars. She has gotten the following awards: Dr. Carlos Casas Campillo 2000 to the best young biotechnologista and mexican national award: Research in Natural Sciences 2003 (Mexican Academy of Sciences).
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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. 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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