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Dr. Marcel Agueros
Marcel Agueros has a longstanding interest in stellar endpoints. His research career began with radio observations of pulsars and work on the radio expansion of the remnant Cassiopeia A. He is now leading searches for isolated neutron stars and for millisecond pulsar companions to low-mass white dwarfs, and is also involved in X-ray studies of other remnants. Much of Marcel's current work exploits the information gleaned from correlations of data from the optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey with that from surveys at other wavelengths. Marcel held a NASA Harriett Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship while at the University of Washington, and is now an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University.
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Dr. 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. Clemente Aguilar
2008, Expected Fall, MS in Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at El Paso, TX. (UTEP)
Veterinary Medicine. University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ), Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Work experience: Small Animal Veterinarian
Current research: Developing an application for finding concentration of palindromes in RNA sequences. (UTEP)
Past research: Effect of supplementation on a basal diet of wheat straw on voluntary intake and in vivo digestibility of the diet components in sheep (UACJ).
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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. 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. Mary Albert
Dr. Mary Albert is a senior research engineer at the U.S. Army ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Mary studies heat, mass, and electromagnetic transfer in porous media. She especially enjoys investigations of air-snow transfer on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets for ice core interpretation and understanding the impact of reactions in snow on atmospheric chemistry. She has led and participated in many science expeditions in Greenland and Antarctica.
Dr. Albert received her Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences from the University of California San Diego in 1992. She also has a B.E. and M.E. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth, and a B.S. in Math from Penn State. Mary has received multiple Army awards for research. From 2003-2005, Mary served as Chair of the U.S. National Committee for the International Polar Year, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board.
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Dr. Martha Aliaga
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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. Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Sridhar Anandakrishnan is Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences and the Environment Institute, the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include seismic imaging used to study interactions between the cryosphere and lithosphere, and climate change. Sridhar's research with CReSIS, the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, is trying to better understand and predict the role of polar ice sheets in sea level change, using new technologies and computer models.
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Dr. Cynthia Anhalt
Cynthia completed her doctoral studies in mathematics teacher education at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her research interests lie in student learning and teacher education, specifically with teachers of English Language Learning (ELL) student populations. Her current research focuses on improving mathematics teaching in the middle school level through lesson study with a focus on issues of language and mathematical representations and their influence on teachers' design and implementation of academic tasks. In addition, she is currently doing research in Latino/a student learning of mathematics through task-based interviews on various mathematics assessment items.
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Dr. John Augusto
John graduated from Washburn University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. In 1995, he received his Masters of Science in Education from the University of Kansas and in 2007 will complete his PhD in Education. His research interest lies in the area of doctoral training at public research universities. John has presented at over a dozen different national and regional conferences and workshops on the topics of networking, creating change within higher education and graduate recruitment.
He has worked at 15 years experience in public, private and not for profit education institutions. Previously, he spent eight years as the Assistant Dean in the Graduate School at the University of Kansas. Currently, he works as the Research Training Coordinator within the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. In this role, he coordinates the research training for the KU Lawrence Campus at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level.
John is blessed with a wonderful soulmate, Kimberly, and three children, Larissa (13 years old) and Alejandro (8 years old) and Isabella (18 months old).
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Dr. Jim Austin
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Dr. Mary Beckerle
Mary Beckerle, PhD, serves as executive director of Huntsman Cancer Institute. She has been a faculty member at the University of Utah since 1986, where she is a distinguished professor of biology and adjunct professor of oncological sciences. She earned her PhD in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed post-doctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beckerle is a noted cell biologist, a nationally recognized researcher, a mentor and teacher to students and postdoctoral fellows, and an experienced administrator. An active participant in national scientific affairs, Beckerle served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology and on strategic planning committees for the National Institutes of Health. In 2007, she was presented with the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the most prestigious award given to University of Utah faculty members. She currently serves on the Board of the Coalition for Life Sciences, the Scientific Review Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the Director. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Dr. Alberto Behar
Dr. Alberto Behar serves as JPL's chief engineer on the Antarctic Ice Borehole Probe Project. Behar and his colleagues spent three months in subzero temperatures studying the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. The size of the United States and Mexico combined, the Antarctic ice sheet may hold a gold mine of information, including the mechanisms by which ice flows from this area to the oceans. Studies show that significant changes in glacier melting and flow rates could considerably impact sea levels and global warming.
The science team used an ice probe, equipped with lights and two cameras, to capture the first-ever video and still images deep within Antarctic ice streams. This project also serves as a stepping-stone in the development of technology capable of withstanding extreme ice and liquid environments on Earth and other planets.
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Dr. Robin Bell
Robin Elizabeth Bell is a Doherty Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She earned her undergraduate degree in geology from Middlebury College and her doctorate in geophysics from Columbia. Bell has coordinated seven major aero-geophysical expeditions to Antarctica. She has discovered a volcano beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet and several large lakes locked beneath 2 miles of ice. Recently, Bell mapped the entire Hudson River identifying crucial habitats, contaminated deposits, dozens of sunken ships and Revolutionary War artifacts. As chair of the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board, she helped launch the International Polar Year 2007/8. During the International Polar Year, Bell will deploy a new generation aerogeophysical imaging system to Antarctica to explore the last unknown mountain range on Earth, the Gamburtsev Mountains, with ice and completely unexplored and surrounded by large subglacial lakes. She is a passionate sailor, recently crossing the Atlantic twice with her family.
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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. James Berner
James E. Berner has practiced medicine in the Alaska Native health care system since 1974. He directs the Alaska Native Traditional Food Safety Monitoring program, which assesses contaminant and micronutrient levels in pregnant Alaska Native women, and evaluates health effects in mothers and newborn infants. He has been the key national expert for the U.S. on the Human Health Advisory Group of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), a Program of the Arctic Council, since 1999. Dr. Berner was co-lead author of the chapter on the impact of climate change on the health of Arctic residents in the 2005 Arctic Climate Impact Assessments, an international report on climate change in the north. In April 2005 he was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board. Dr. Berner graduated from Oklahoma University Medical School in 1968. He spent three years in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, completed residency training, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He served as Director of Community Health of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium from 1984 until 2006, and now serves as Senior Director for Science within the Division of Community Health Services, as well as serving as part-time clinician in Pediatrics.
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Dr. Michael Breen
Mike had been doing Who Wants to Be a Mathematician for the American Mathematical Society for over seven years. This is the third time the math contest has been part of the SACNAS national conference.
Mike has been on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. (If you want to know if he won lots of money on either show, note that he is still working for a living.) He may be the only person ever to cut his hand on the wheel. Who Wants to Be a Mathematician is guaranteed to be much safer.
Mike taught at Alfred University and Tennessee Technological University before becoming AMS Public Awareness Officer in 2000.
The AMS has 30,000 members. It promotes mathematical research, fosters excellence in mathematics education, and increases the awareness of the value of mathematics to society. Come by the AMS booth (#814) to find out more about the Society and pick up free materials.
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Dr. 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. Kirsten Butcher
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Dr. Bill Butterworth
Bill earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Santa Clara University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at DePaul University. He shares a life-long interest in game shows with colleague Mike Breen, with whom he works as the not-so-lovely assistant on the mathematics game show Who Wants to Be a Mathematician. In addition to authoring articles and presenting talks related to game show mathematics, Bill has also served as Mathematics Consultant to the CBS television show The Price is Right since 1997.
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Dr. Dave Carlson
Dr. David Carlson directs the International Programme Office for the International Polar Year, hosted by the UK National Environmental Research Council at the British Antarctic Survey. IPY, with more than 50,000 participants from 60 nations, will cover a wide range of geophysical, biological and social science topics at a critical time for polar regions. Dr. Carlson has devoted more than 15 years to guiding and managing large international science programmes, starting from the very large Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere programme in 1992 and 1993 and continuing through a decade of complex programmes focused on many aspects of weather, atmospheric chemistry, and climate. Dr. Carlson holds a PhD in Oceanography and led successful research teams focused on upper ocean physics and chemistry, oceanic microbiology and carbon cycling, and marine chemical ecology.
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Dr. Rodrigo Carramiñana
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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. Carlos Casiano
Dr. Carlos A. Casiano is Associate Professor of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM). He also serves as Associate Director of the LLUSM Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine, and Director for Research Education and Training of this center. Dr. Casiano earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, where he conducted undergraduate and graduate research on anticancer drugs targeting the ribosome. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis, focusing on ribosome biology. He pursued postdoctoral training on autoimmune aspects of cancer at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. In 1997 he joined the faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine, where he has maintained an extramurally funded research program focused on the delineation of cell death and survival pathways in cancer and autoimmunity, and the analysis of autoantibody responses to tumor associated antigens. He is also interested on the biological aspects of cancer health disparities, with emphasis on the characterization of cellular survival pathways modulated by oxidative stress in prostate cancer. His research group explores the central hypothesis that increased inflammation and oxidative stress derived from lifestyle, dietary habits, or other environmental factors, activate cellular protective genes that promote tumor growth and survival. Differential activation of these genes in diverse populations might provide a biological basis for the observed racial disparities in cancer incidence and mortality.
Dr. Casiano has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the International Advisory Committee of the Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies, the Ireland Health Research Board, and the National Fund for Scientific Research of Belgium. He has also served as reviewer for numerous biomedical journals. He is an active member of the Minorities in Cancer Research Council (MICR) of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), where he has served in various capacities, including chairperson, co-chair of the Minority Scholar Award in Cancer Research Committee, member of the Cancer Health Disparities Think Tank, and member of the AACR Science Education Committee.
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Dr. Miguel Castro-Colin
Dr. Castro-Colin obtained his PhD at the University of Houston under the guidance of Profs. S. C. Moss and W. Donner. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is interests are X-ray diffraction, amorphous and disordered materials, thin films, thermodynamics of liquids, computer modeling, oxidation processes, nondestructive testing via ultrasound.
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Dr. Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis
Dr. Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in bilingual and mathematics education at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Her research interests focus on the linguistic and cultural influences on the teaching and learning of mathematics, especially with students learning English as a second language. Other interests include policies and procedures used to place English language learners in mathematics. She is a Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as, a collaboration among the University of Arizona, the University of California-Santa Cruz, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the University of New Mexico.
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Dr. Stuart Chapin
F. Stuart Chapin, III is a Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology and Wildlife at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he joined the faculty in 1973. Most of his research is about the effects of changes in climate and wildfire on Alaskan ecology and rural communities. He is especially interested in ways that communities and agencies can develop options that increase sustainability of ecosystems and human communities over the long term in spite of rapid climatic and social changes. Through his research, he tries to determine how climate, ecology, and subsistence resources are likely to change in the future. This information should enable people to make more informed choices about options for long-term sustainability. Terry teaches classes at the university, directs the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program and assists Gary Kofinas in directing the interdisciplinary graduate (IGERT) program in Resilience and Adaptation.
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Dr. Jeanne Chowning
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Dr. Herek Clack
Dr. Herek Clack is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, having received his S.B. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT in 1987 and his M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (1998) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded an NRC postdoctoral fellowship in 1997, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, and has served on advisory committees of the NRC. His research is in the area of transport phenomena within dispersions, applied to such areas as spray combustion, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and emission of air toxics during combustion.
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Dr. Cecilia Claudio Torres
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Dr. Philip Clifford
Philip Clifford is Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education and Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was tapped by the Medical College of Wisconsin to create the Office of Postdoctoral Education in 2001 just prior to the publication of the COSEPUP report "Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience." He has participated in discussions on postdoctoral training and helped initiate national reform as one of the founding members of the Advisory Board of the National Postdoctoral Association. As a part of FASEB's Science Policy Committee on Training and Careers, he was a coauthor of the Individual Development Plan for postdoctoral fellows. He is also a member of the AAMC GREAT Group Committee which developed the “Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors.” In surveys by The Scientist, the Medical College of Wisconsin has ranked as one of the top US academic institutions for postdoctoral training.
Dr. Clifford is a frequent speaker at seminars, workshops, and symposia on postdoctoral issues. In addition, he heads an active research program investigating the physiological mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle blood flow during exercise. His research laboratory has been funded by the NIH since 1988, with additional funding from the American Heart Association and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of several physiological journals. He is also a consultant in the medical device industry.
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Dr. Michele Coats
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Dr. Maricela Correa-Chavez
Dr. Maricela Correa-Chávez received her PhD in developmental psychology from UC Santa Cruz. Her research examines cognition and learning as cultural activities tied to people’s participation in community traditions and institutions (like school) in a number of cultural communities: Mexican heritage in the U.S. and Mexico, Guatemalan Maya, and middle-class European-American. Of particular interest is how children use attention in learning, in social interaction, and in communication. She also examines how patterns of attention are related to family participation in community traditions and institutions over generations. Her work examines issues of immigration and globalization especially with regards to Mexico and Central America. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute, and by the Institute of Educational Sciences through AERA. Beginning Fall 2008 she will be an assistant professor in the Francis L. Hiatt School of Psychology at Clark University.
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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. Wilfred Denetclaw, Jr.
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Dr. Anthony DePass
Anthony L. DePass is the Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Biology at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. He is the PI and Director of the MBRS SCORE program at long Island University and was CoPI and a member of the administrative core of a NIH-NCI funded partnership between Long Island University and Columbia University that addresses cancer related health disparities.
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Dr. Laona DeWilde
I grew up in the interior Alaska bush with 13 other siblings living a traditional Koyukon Athabaskan life until the age of 18. I than went to a boarding home high school in Sitka Alaska called Mt. Edgecumbe High School. I got my Masters Degree in Biology in 2003 using GIS to analyze the fire scar history of Interior Alaska and how it relates to vegetation, human protection efforts, climate and starts from humans. I was also a wild land fire fighter and smokejumper for 8 years. After finishing my masters I worked for a non-profit organization developing a watershed wide water quality monitoring program for the Yukon River and it's tributaries.
I travel to 24 villages holding workshops about mapping contaminated sites by using GIS and GPS and how to test water for basic parameters such as dissolved oxygen and nitrates. Currently I am in the 2nd year of my PHD program in the Dept. of Biology and Environmental Engineering. I am in an interdisciplinary program called the IGERT program which focuses on sustainability and broader interdisciplinary perspectives to large scale problems. For my project I am developing a Fairbanks volunteer water quality monitoring program and also analyzing for trace metal and basic nutrient pollutants of surface waters in the Fairbanks region.
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Dr. Christian Dimaano
Christian completed an undergraduate degree in biology at the University of San Francisco and a masters degree in immunology at the California State University, Hayward. Christian moved on to his PhD at the University of Utah where his research focused on the nuclear export of RNA; he then completed postdoctoral research on multivesicular body formation using yeast as a model system. Christian was supported as an NIH-MBRS student in California, as an NIH-minority predoctoral fellow as a graduate student, and by a Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award as a postdoctoral fellow. Christian is currently a Scientist in the Cancer Biology division of Myriad Genetics, Inc., a biotech/bio-pharmaceutical company located in Salt Lake City, Utah. At Myriad, Christian leads a group of researchers focused on the identification and validation of novel cancer drug targets.
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Dr. Sarah Doherty
Dr. Sarah Doherty has a B.A. in Physics (1988) from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and an M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington (UW). In the interim between her undergraduate and graduate work, she spent several years doing laser and electro-optic research on adaptive optics systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She then spent just over a year at McMurdo Station, Antarctica as the Science Technician, running a dozen experiments mostly related to the stratospheric ozone hole. After half a year of traveling through Southeast Asia and readjusting to life in the U.S., she decided her future lay in atmospheric science and she applied to the UW. As a Ph.D. student working with Professors Robert Charlson and Tad Anderson, she developed an instrument to measure 180-degree backscatter by aerosols. This year Sarah has returned to doing research, joining a project led by Professors Steve Warren (UW Atmospheric Sciences) and Antony Clarke (University of Hawaii Oceanography) to study the deposition of black carbon (dark particles) onto the Arctic surface. These particles absorb sunlight, heating the surface snow and thereby accelerating melt rates. The goal of the project is to better quantify how much black carbon is deposited in the Arctic and whether it is making a significant contribution to the recent acceleration in melt rates in this region.
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Dr. Melanie Domenech Rodriguez
Melanie Domenech Rodríguez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. At present, Dr. Domenech Rodríguez is engaged in an NIMH-funded preventive intervention trial of a Parent Management Training – Oregon intervention, culturally adapted for use with Spanish-speaking Latino families. The intervention seeks to prevent the escalation of externalizing behavior problems. As part of her research efforts, Dr. Domenech Rodríguez collaborates actively with researchers at the Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría in Mexico City. Dr. Domenech Rodríguez obtained her doctoral degree at Colorado State University in 1999 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Family Research Consortium – III. Dr. Domenech Rodríguez was born and raised in Puerto Rico.
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Dr. Dennis Dowling
Dennis Dowling has been a classroom Biology/environmental science teacher for forty-one years. He is presently the Science Department Chair at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara California and the Director of the District funded Montebello Ridge Environmental Program. He has involved thousands of high school students in ongoing restoration projects in Northern California. He is the advisor to the very first High School SEEDS chapter at Wilcox High School.
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Dr. Anthony Eskander
Anthony Eskander is currently an MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Oregon Health & Science University. His research areas of interest include traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration, and addiction. He is currently the west coast Associate Regional Director for the Student National Medical Association and sits on the Board of Directors for the Latino Medical Student Association. In addition, Eskander was the OHSU School of Medicine Admissions Liaison for the '07-'08 admissions cycle. He has begun several undergraduate mentoring projects across Oregon and considers it a lifelong passion of his to help students achieve their academic goals.
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Dr. Francisco (Paco) Flores
Paco Flores is the Program Coordinator for Promotion and Outreach at the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). In this role, he speaks to students and administrators in individual and mass communications to ensure that Latinos around the country are aware of the opportunities provided by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program. Paco also heads a Gates initiative geared towards increasing the college enrollment rate of minority male students. Paco graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with degrees in Psychology and History. Born and raised in California, he lives and works in San Francisco.
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Dr. Peter Flynn
Peter Flynn is Director of the D.M. Grant NMR Center and Adjust Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. His research interests are in the areas of structural biology and biophysics with emphasis on characterization of the function of biologically active macromolecules using a technology-inclusive approach that combines structural studies - primarily using solution NMR - with studies of the biophysical properties of the molecules to elucidate the origins of biological activity. Current group projects involve studies of the influence of confinement on the structure and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acid oligonucleotides and the relationships between structure, dynamics, and function in protein-RNA interactions.
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Dr. Jean Ford, MD
JEAN G. FORD, M.D.
Dr. Ford completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia College, and received his M.D. degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed training in internal medicine at Harlem Hospital Center, and in pulmonary medicine at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He received additional training in the molecular epidemiology of lung cancer.
Dr. Ford joined the faculty at Harlem Hospital and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1996, he became Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Harlem Hospital, a position that he held until July 2002, when he moved to Baltimore. While in New York, Dr. Ford initiated evidence-based projects to improve the quality of patient care, and he implemented program of clinical and epidemiological research on asthma and lung cancer.
Currently, Dr. Ford serves as an Associate Professor in the departments of Epidemiology, Oncology and Medicine Johns Hopkins. He directs a program of community-based research involving seven sites in Baltimore, and serving a diverse population. His research focuses primarily determinants of cancer health disparities, including barriers to participation of underserved populations in cancer clinical trials.
Dr. Ford has received several grants from the National Institutes of Health, including the National Cancer Institute, and he has published numerous articles and book chapters on risk factors for asthma and cancer in African Americans.
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Dr. Christine Foreman
Christine Foreman studies life in extreme conditions and remote environments, connecting the very smallest organisms to the workings of the entire planet. Her research revolves around the organization of microbial communities in relation to their physical environment, and the processing of nutrients and dissolved organic matter (DOM). She is interested in the contribution of DOM to global carbon budgets, including potential storage in ice, and how this DOM is responsive to enhanced UV radiation. The connection between ice-bound DOM and climate change is important because we know that frozen environments comprise ~25% of the Earth's surface and that the carbon reservoir in ice is equivalent to that in all of the Earth's freshwater rivers and lakes.Christine is an Assistant Research Professor at Montana State University and is a member of the U.S. Committee for Limnology and Geochemistry of the International Subcommittee on Antarctic Lake Environments, (SALE).
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Dr. Lollie Garay
Lollie Garay teaches Integrated Earth/Space Science for grades 5-8 at Redd School, Houston Texas.In 2007 she was chosen for the ARCUS PolarTREC program which teams classroom teachers with reseachers doing cutting-edge science in the Polar regions. Lollie traveled on the Oden Icebreaker as part of an international expedition to the seas of Antarctica. The seven week voyage focused on bio-chemical oceanographic studies conducted by US and Swedish scientists.
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Dr. Angel Garcia
Dr. García received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Biophysical Society, The Protein Society, the AAAS, and the American Chemical Society. He received the Edward Bouchard prize of the American Physical Society in 2006.
Dr. García is an Associate Editor of Proteins, Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, a member of the editorial board of the Biophysical Journal, Molecular Simulations, and a member of the Faculty of 1000 for BioMed Central.
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Dr. Jose (JD) Garcia
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Dr. Minnetta Gardinier
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Dr. Gilda Garreton
Gilda Garreton is a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and her main research focuses on VLSI CAD. She received her B.A. and Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile and her Ph.D. from the Swiss Institute of Technology. Gilda is a mentor at Sun and MentorNet and she co-founded in 2006 the community Latinas in Computing (LiC). During her free time, she enjoys family time and volunteer work. She is a member of Engineers Without Borders US, chapter Sun where she leads a project that will provide wireless access to a remote location in Panama.
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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. Dolores Garza
Dolly Garza (Sganggwaay) is Haida/Tlingit Indian from Ketchikan Alaska. Garza has a Ph.D. is Marine Policy from the University of Delaware, an M.S. in Fisheries from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Fisheries from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Professor Garza worked for 24 years with the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program to educate and learn from Alaska’s marine resource users. As an outreach educator Garza worked with tribes in marine mammal co-management, and educated the public about the values and uses of traditional foods and food gathering by Native peoples. In addition she represented the voices and concerns of Natives and local residents in protecting coastal resources at state and federal marine related boards and commissions. Garza relied on the knowledge of her Native Elders, hunters and gatherers who hold generational knowledge about the local environments and resources. Upon retirement in December 2006 she was awarded professor emerita with the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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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. Silvia Garzoli
Dr. Silvia L. Garzoli's main field of interest is the dynamics of the ocean and its relation to climate. As a sea going oceanographer, her main field of expertise is in the use of long-term moored instrumentation to study the oceanic circulation and its relation to climate. For a large part of her career, she conducted and directed national and international research programs in several regions of the world Ocean. This includes the tropical Atlantic, the Brazil Malvinas Confluence in the South Western Atlantic, and the study of the Indonesian throughflow at the strait of Makassar, the Benguela Current system south of South Africa, and the North Brazil Current north of Brazil.
In addition to the analysis of the observations that she collected during her research expeditions, Dr. Garzoli has also worked with the product of numerical models to further analyze the data and understand the physics of the processes involved.
Dr. Garzoli is currently involved in different projects directed to monitor and study the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the meridional heat transport in the Atlantic.
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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. Kenneth Golden
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Dr. Al Gonzalez
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Dr. Lino Gonzalez
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Dr. Luis Gonzalez
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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. Albin Gonzalez, PhD/DABR
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Dr. Olivia Graeve
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Dr. Vanessa Green
Vanessa Green is Director of Higher Education and Diversity at the Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction, a Science and Technology Center that seeks to understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes of the river-to-ocean ecosystem. Originally from Colorado, Green completed a bachelors degree at Marlboro College and began work in education in Vermont. She completed a Masters Degree in Higher Education Administration at Syracuse University in New York before moving to Oregon. She now works with CMOP, facilitating undergraduate internships and graduate degrees for members of Pacific Northwest Tribes and individuals from other groups underrepresented in STEM disciplines.
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Dr. Sallie Greenberg
Sallie Greenberg is the Sequestration Communications Coordinator for the Illinois State Geological Survey and Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium. She is part of a research team of scientists working on a multi-phase geologic sequestration project, and worked on the FutureGen zero-emissions power plant project. Her combined training as an environmental geologist and geoscience educator provide unique perspectives on public perception of carbon sequestration. Sallie holds a MS in Geology from the University of Illinois and a BA in Geology from Alfred University. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois.
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Dr. Lowana Greensky
Lowana Greensky is a Program Associate for the gidakiimanaaniwigamig Native American Youth Science Enrichment Program with the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics. She is also the Native education coordinator for the St. Louis County Schools, Minnesota.
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Dr. 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. Geoffrey Haines-Stiles
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Dr. Alexis Hall
Alexis Hall is a student at California State Univrsity of Monterey Bay, where she majors in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy and minors in Math. Furthermore, she is a McNair student who aspires to obtain a Ph.D. in marine science and encourage other African-American women to go into science related careers.
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Dr. LaTisha Hammond
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Dr. Mark Harris
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Dr. Meda Higa
Dr. Meda Higa is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Doms at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on understanding how Hantavirus entry into cells is facilitated by virally encoded glycoproteins. In addition, Dr. Higa also teaches at Rutgers-Camden University in New Jersey through the NIH IRACDA teaching training program. The first in her family to earn a doctoral degree, Dr. Higa completed her Ph.D. at the University of Utah in Oncological Sciences and her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she is proud of her multiethnic background. Dr. Higa is Diversity Chair of the Biomedical Postdoctoral Council at Penn, a product of The Leadership Alliance, and a member of the SACNAS postdoctoral committee.
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Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer
Dr. Margaret Hiza Redsteer is currently a research scientist at the USGS Flagstaff Science Center where she is project chief of the “Navajo Land Use Planning Project”, leading a team of researchers that conduct studies on tribal lands. This interdisciplinary team looks at linkages between geology, climate and land use history, to assess impacts to communities and the landscape they live on. Primary issues include drought impacts, wind erosion, and water quality. Recently, she has been selected by the IPCC working Group II to be lead author on Chapter 15 of the Fifth Assessment Report, on Adaptation, Planning and Implementation. Her education includes a B.S. in Geology with extended hydrogeology emphasis; an M.S. in sedimentology; and a Ph.D. in isotope and trace element geochemistry.
Margaret is of Crow descent, originally from an area on Wyoming-Montana border. She lived in the Joint Use Area of the Navajo Nation for ten years, in what is now Hopi Partitioned Lands, and is mother to three children.
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Dr. 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. Louise Huffman
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Dr. Orville Huntington
Orville Huntington is a wildlife biologist, hunter, and community leader, living in the remote Athabascan community of Huslia. While preferring to stay home with “my girls” (his two daughters) he has served on the Alaskan Native Science Commission, and many state and Alaskan native corporation advisory boards, and is committed to education and outreach projects which help non-Alaskans understand the culture and subsistence lifestyle of his people.
He has given keynotes at Arctic Forums and spoken on panels at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He is a member of a well-known Athabascan family: his uncle, Sydney Huntington, wrote the fascinating “Shadows Along the Koyukuk”, a classic of life along the river that runs through Huslia.
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Dr. Belen Hurle
Dr. Belen Hurle is a Staff Scientist at the Intramural Research Program of the Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Heath. She joined the NHGRI in November 2002 after completing four-years of postdoctoral training in Molecular Genetics at Washington University (St. Louis, MO) studying the genetics of the sense of balance. Previously she obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo (Spain).
The comparative genomics program at the NHGRI generates and compares genomic sequence from multiple vertebrates. Dr Hurle’s current research is on the link between primate mating behavior and underlying molecular genetic mechanisms.
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Dr. Stan Inman
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Dr. Sarah James
Sarah James is a Neetsaii Gwich’in Athabascan Indian from Arctic Village, Alaska. She was raised in the traditional nomadic way. Sarah was one of the first recipients of the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award and a co-recipient of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work with the Gwich’in Steering Committee to protect the calving and nursery grounds of the Porcupine River Caribou Herd on the Arctic Refuge coastal plain. The Porcupine Caribou Herd has sustained the Gwich’in for over twenty thousand years.
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Dr. Regina James, M.D.
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Dr. Erik Jorgensen
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Dr. Melissa Jurgensen-Armstrong
Melissa Armstrong is the Diversity Programs Manager of the Ecological Society of America based in Flagstaff, AZ. She started working with SEEDS at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2000 and transferred to ESA in 2002. Mrs. Armstrong received her B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Rhode Island and an M.A. in Teaching of Ecology from Northern Arizona University. She is particularly interested in what influences students' decisions about following an ecology pathway, and how the field of ecology can change to encourage and support greater diversity.
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Dr. Ute Kaden
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Dr. Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley was born in Bethel, Alaska. He entered school knowing only the Yupiaq language. The first three grades were spent attending a BIA school in a segregated school system in the little village of Bethel. He graduated from high school in Bethel as his Grandmother would not allow him to attend a boarding school. He went to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and earned his Bachelor's of Education with a major in biological sciences. He has been President and CEO of a Native corporation, and Executive Director of a non-profit corporation. He is presently an Associate Prof. of Education at UAF and Co-Director of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative. He sits on the Alaska Native Science Commission.
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Dr. Anthony Kearsley
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Dr. Cynthia Larive
Cynthia Larive received her B.S. in Chemistry in 1980 from South Dakota State University and an M.S. \in 1982 from Purdue University. She was manager of the AA-ICP laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology from 1984-1988. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 1992 and joined the Chemistry faculty of the University of Kansas. She received an NSF Career award in 1995 and an Eli Lilly New Faculty award in 1996. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2003. From 2001-2004, she also held an appointment of Courtesy Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In 2005 she moved to the University of California - Riverside as Professor of Chemistry where she is also a cooperating faculty member in the departments of Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry and a member of the Center for Plant Cell Biology. She received an award for teaching excellence from the University of Kansas in 2002 and the J. Calvin Giddings award for Excellence in Education from the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry in 2007. She is the editor-in-chief of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library (www.asdlib.org) and serves on the international advisory board for Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Dr. Larive’s research involves the development and application of microcoil NMR probes, heparin and heparan sulfate characterization, application of metabonomics in Arabidopsis thaliana and in rice, and NMR measurements to investigate ligand-protein interactions.
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Dr. Leroy LittleBear
Leroy LittleBear is a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Leroy is the former Director of the American Indian Program at Harvard University and professor emeritus of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge where he was department chair for 25 years. He has served as a legal and constitutional advisor to the Assembly of First Nations and has served on many influential committees, commissions, and boards dealing with First Nations issues. He has written several articles and co-edited three books including Pathways to Self-Determination: Canadian Indians and the Canadian State (1984), Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights (1985), and Governments in Conflict and Indian Nations in Canada (1988). He is also contributor to Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision.
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Dr. Glenn Lopez
Glenn was raised in central California and attended Stanford University 1967-71. He went to graduate school in Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in New York. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1976, Glenn took postdoctoral positions in Denmark, Germany, and North Carolina. In 1980 he returned to Stony Brook, taking a faculty position at the Marine Sciences Research Center, which is now the School of Marine of Atmospheric Sciences. Glenn teaches graduate courses in oceanography, undergraduate courses in environmental studies, advises graduate students (over 20 M.S. and Ph.D. students graduated), and conducts research in marine benthic ecology.
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Dr. Patricia Lopez
Patty Lopez received her BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in CS from NMSU, where she is a Distinguished Alumna. She worked at HP for 19 years as an Imaging Scientist, and has received HP awards for Technical Leadership, Campus Recognition, and Diversity and Inclusion. She has presented technical papers at hPICS, the HP Technical Women’s Conference, the HP Developers Conference, and HP Tech Con. Patty joined Intel in 2008 as a Logic Validation Lead Engineer, working on Itanium microprocessors. A member of the ACM and a MentorNet mentor, she is active in Latinas in Computing. Patty has served as a keynote speaker for UCLEADS 2004 and WEPAN 2004, a panelist at SACNAS 2003, and a presenter at the SHPE 2007 National Conference.
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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. Mercedes Lopez Morales
Mercedes Lopez-Morales is a Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council's Institute for Space Sciences (CSIC-ICE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a long term Visiting Scientist at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC. After receiving her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004, she continued her research both as a Carnegie Fellow and a Hubble Fellow at Carnegie, before returning to Spain in 2010. Among her research areas of interest are extrasolar planets atmospheres, robotic instrumentation and very low mass stars.
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Dr. Beverly Lyn-Cook
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Dr. Lyn-Cook is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine at the National Center for Toxicological Research, a national laboratory of the Food and Drug Administration located in Jefferson, Arkansas. Dr. Lyn-Cook has been with the FDA since 1988. Prior to her arrival at the FDA, she was a Research Associate Professor at the Lineberger Cancer Research Center, located at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, N.C. from 1984-1988. Dr. Lyn-Cook was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1981-1984. She received her M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) in Biology from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia where her research interest was in the areas of Cytogenetics and Biochemistry.
Dr. Lyn-Cook’s research interest is understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in dietary, chemical and/or environmental interactions on the carcinogenesis process and drug toxicity. Her current research interest is in the area of nutrigenomics, pharmacogenomics and chemoprevention. She has published in numerous scientific journals.
Dr. Lyn-Cook is member of the American Association for Cancer Research where she has served as the Chair of MICR Council, Society of Cell Biology and a former member of the Federally Employed Women (FEW). She serves as NCTR’s liaison to the Office of Women Health for the FDA. She was recently appointed to the Arkansas Science & Technology Board by the governor. She is a member of the UAPB STEM External Advisory Board and a member of Philander Smith College Internal Advisory Board. She serves on numerous other Boards. She is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at Philander Smith College in Little Rock and in Toxicology at the University of Arkansas Medical School. She has presented a numerous national and international meeting.
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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. 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).
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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. Dennis Martinez
Dennis is of O’odham/Chicano/Swedish heritage, and is adopted by the Pretty Weasel family, Whistling Water Clan, Crow tribe. He is the adopted son of Agnes Pilgrim, (Siletz-Takelma), chairwoman of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. He lives in the Klamath Mts. in California. He studied the history and philosophy of science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a traditional practitioner a self-taught ethnoecologist and restoration ecologist; and has worked in the field of ecocultural restoration for 39 years in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems. He is founder and co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network (IPRN) of the Society for Ecological Restoration International (SERI), and has served as chair of the SERI Science and Policy Working Group.
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Dr. Luis Martinez
An El Paso native, Dr. Martínez’s interests are in the synthesis and application of small molecules to probe and study biological function and the development of new synthetic methods. Prior to his current position at Scripps Florida, he was a professor at UTEP and a management consultant with Feinstein-Kean Healthcare.
Dr. Martínez received a B.S. degree from Trinity University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Harvard University. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow, a former Fellow of the Miller Institute at UC-Berkeley and a Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Awardee. His active research program has been supported by the NIH, DOD, the Research Corporation and the Welch Foundation.
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Dr. James J. McCarthy
Dr. McCarthy is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and from 1982 until 2002 he was the Director of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS). McCarthy received his undergraduate degree in biology from Gonzaga University, and his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is an author of many scientific papers, and he currently teaches courses on biological oceanography and biogeochemical cycles, marine ecosystems, and global change and human health. For the past two decades Dr. McCarthy has worked as an author, reviewer, and as a co-chair with the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. McCarthy has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Dr. McCarthy is the current president of the AAAS, our nation’s largest scientific association.
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Dr. Tim McCollum
Tim McCollum is a graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School (1969) in Flossmoor, IL and Eastern Illinois University (B.S. in Ed., 1973, M.S. in Zoology, 1977). The 2008/09 school year will mark his thirty-sixth year of teaching at Charleston Middle School in Charleston, IL.Allong with his teaching duties at CMS, he serves as a senior staff member for the Passport to Knowledge (P2K) initiative. His responsibilities for this role include designing activities, conducting workshops, mentoring teachers, and promoting participation in the P2K experience. He has been a member of the curriculum design team and contributed lessons and activities for the following P2K teacher's guides - Live From the Rainforest, Live From the Sun, Live From the Storm, and Passport to the Solar System, and has served as a lead teacher for the Marsapalooza and Polar Palooza initiatives.
In March of 2004 he received the Presidential Award of Excellence for Math and Science Teaching for Illinois, and the past two summers he has served on the National Selection Committee for this award. PAEMST Recognition Week
In the spring of 2006 he accepted an appointment to the National Science Board Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
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Dr. Jamila Medley
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Dr. Robert Megginson
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Dr. Luis Melara Jr.
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Dr. Bryan Mendez
Dr. Bryan Mendez is an Education and Public Outreach Specialist at the Center for Science Education at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, working to educate and inspire others about the wonder and beauty of the Universe. He develops programs for the public through the web and museums, classroom materials for students in K-12 classrooms, and has a particular interest in professional development for science educators and has conducted numerous workshops and short courses. Dr. Méndez has a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Dr. 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. Larry Merculieff
Larry Merculieff, Aleut, is a widely known advocate for Alaska and Aleut Native peoples and rights and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). He is an accomplished writer and storyteller as well as an inspiring cross-cultural speaker. He is an expert in arctic climate change and the relationship between Western science and TEK. He is the recipient of several awards, including Finalist in the Ecotrust-Buffet Award for Indigenous Conservation Leadership in NW North America.
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Dr. Robert Milner
Robert Milner, Ph.D., is Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Co-Director of the Junior Faculty Development Program, and Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Dr. Milner received his doctoral degree from The Rockefeller University, completed postdoctoral training at The Salk Institute, and held faculty positions at Salk and at the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic before moving to Penn State. He has a long-standing interest in the professional development and education of individuals at all stages of academic careers. His background as a basic science researcher in the field of neuroscience and as a former department chair provides a wealth of experience and knowledge about the challenges of advancing an academic career. He is also Co-Director of the Intercollege Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Penn State and directs courses in neuroscience, professional development, and ethics
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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. 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. Manuel Morales
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Dr. James Morison
Dr. Morison's research focus centers on the study of environmental change in the Arctic. He heads the project office for the multi-government agencies' Study of Environmental Arctic Change program (SEARCH). In addition, he has spent the last three springs in the vicinity of the North Pole directing hydrographic analysis of ocean conditions for the North Pole Environmental Observatory program. Another aspect of his research has used autonomous underwater vehicles to study turbulent vertical velocity and fluxes of heat and salt in the Arctic Ocean.
Dr. Morison has served as 1) a University of Washington Representative to the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States in 1995-97; 2) a member of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Antarctic Research Vessel Oversight Committee in 1995-98; 3) a member of the ARCUS Logistics Working Group in 1997-98; 4) a member of the NSF Office of Polar Program Advisory Committee in 1997-99; and, 5) a member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Scientists in 1997-2000.
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Dr. Philip Mote
Dr. Philip Mote is a research scientist at the University of Washington in the Climate Impacts Group, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. His research interests include Northwest climate and its effects on snowpack, streamflow, and forest fires. A frequent public speaker, he has also written over 70 scientific articles and edited a book on climate modeling that was published in 2000. In 2003, he became the Washington State Climatologist. He served as a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in 2007, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007.
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Dr. Shawn Mullen
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Dr. Darryl Murray
Dr. Darryl Murray earned his undergraduate and Masters Degrees from Alabama State University and later earned his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University while participating in an National Institutes of Health (NIH) partnership program with the University. Currently, Dr. Murray is Director of the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP). The NIH UGSP offers competitive undergraduate scholarship awards to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have a commitment to biomedical, behavioral and social sciences research. Selected participants receive scholarship support and research training at the NIH during the summer and employment and training at the NIH following graduation
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Dr. Debra Murray
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Dr. Sandra Murray
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Dr. Sandra Musanti
Dr. Sandra I. Musanti is a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA). She obtained her doctorate in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has extensive experience as a teacher educator. Her research insterests are teacher professional development, teacher collaboration, teacher knowledge and beliefs, and bilingual education.
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Dr. Ram Nayar
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Dr. Norma Neely
Dr. Norma J. Neely has been an educator for over twenty-five years, teaching grades K-8 as well as university classes. This Citizen Band Potawatomi tribal member served on the SACNAS Board and is currently on the Pre-College and Native American Committees. She is an Instructional Facilitator for Science at the Northeast Regional Professional Development Center at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In December, 2007, Dr. Neely traveled on an NSF-funded research expedition to Antarctica (IPY-ROAM through The University of Texas at El Paso) and has incorporated that experience into classroom activities for students in Northeastern Missouri.A Biography has not been submitted
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Dr. George Negrete
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Dr. Karen Nelson
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Dr. Rebecca Nichols
Rebecca Nichols is the Assistant Director for K-16 Education Programs at the American Statistical Association. Before coming to ASA, she taught introductory statistics courses as a visiting instructor at Brigham Young University for three years while also working as a statistician for the Women’s Research Institute. She has previously worked as a statistician for the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies and Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Rebecca has a B.S. and M.S. in Statistics, both from Brigham Young University.
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Dr. Jeanette Norton
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Dr. Douglas Nychka
Douglas Nychka is a statistical scientist with an interest in the problems
posed by the analysis of geophysical data sets. His Ph. D. (1983) is from the University of Wisconsin and he subsequently spent 14 years as a faculty member at North Carolina State University. His interest in environmental problems and a background in fitting curves and surface to spatial data lead him to assume leadership of the statistics project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Currently Doug is Director of the Institute of Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, a interdisciplinary component at NCAR with a focus on transferring innovative mathematical and statistical tools to the Geosciences.
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Dr. Judith Nyquist
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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. 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. Ana Peralta Ferriz
Ana Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz is a Physical Oceanography graduate student at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the large scale circulation of the Arctic Ocean, specifically analyzing the temporal variations of ocean bottom pressure in the Arctic Ocean. She participated for the first time in the North Pole Environmental Observatory expedition in 2008. The goal of her PhD is to describe and understand the ocean bottom pressure anomalies, and the circulation of the Arctic Ocean linked to them. Cecilia received her B.Sc. in Oceanography in Ensenada, B.C., Mexico, in 2004, and her M.Sc. in Oceanography in June 2008, at the UW.
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Dr. Leslie Pond
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Dr. Jessica Rasmussen
Jessica Rasmussen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her B.S. in Geoscience at the University of Iowa and her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Currently she is interested in using climate models and paleoclimate proxy information to study temperature and precipitation variability in semi-arid regions. Jessica enjoys a mixed Venezuelan-American heritage, and is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Dr. James Rattling Leaf
James Rattling Leaf, Sr., B.S., Environmental Science, University of Colorado-Boulder, serves as an adviser for Science and Technology initiatives at Sinte Gleska University, which is on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. He manages a wide area of education, research and outreach activities that utilize GIS, GPS and remote sensing tools to develop programs designed to increase leadership capabilities and technological consciousness within Tribal Colleges and Universities. Recent grants from NASA Research, Education, Applications Solutions Network and from NASA Goddard, NSF, NOAA, USGS Earth Science and Climate Change Programs have been part of these efforts. Active in establishing partnerships in the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium, he has also taken a leading role in establishing a new partnership model between government, industry and tribal communities, one result of which was the implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the USGS. He is a enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
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Dr. Juan Restrepo
Juan M. Restrepo is a professor of Mathematics at the University of
Arizona, with appointments in Physics and in Atmospheric Sciences.
His research interests encompass geophysical fluids, and
climate dynamics and variability. He has also made scientific
contributions in scientific computing and in biology. The diversity in his
research interests mirrors many aspects of his life and
his career: the son of a Colombian artist and politician and a Sicilian/Armenian pianist, he grew up in Bogota and in New York City. Before embarking in a
career in science he was a professional musician .
He recently created the Uncertainty Quantification Group, whose mission
it is to tackle non-traditional scientific problems in prediction, uncertainty, and sensitivity analysis, requiring diversity of approaches and perspectives.
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Dr. Camille Rey
Camille Mojica Rey is a freelance science writer living near San Jose, CA. She received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the University of California (UC), Berkeley. She is also a graduate of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz. She has been a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, an editor at Latina magazine and a Public Information Officer at UC San Francisco. She was born in San Antonio, Texas to a Mexican-American mother and a Puerto Rican father.
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Dr. Nabor Reyna
Nabor Reyna Jr. is a first year graduate student in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University. Reyna is a recent graduate from The University of Texas - Pan American where he received both a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics. He credits his success to the strong work ethic passed onto him by his strong family ties.
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Dr. Ulises Ricoy
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Dr. Miguel Rincon
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Dr. Fatima Rivas
Fatima comes from a small immigrant family who moved from El Salvador to Los Angeles in the late 70s at the dawn of the civil war. Although, Fatima’s parents had no formal education, they were always supportive of her decisions throughout her high school and college years growing up in South Central LA. Fatima recalls been fascinated by science since she was in grade school so choosing a career in chemistry was a logical step after high school. Although, the resources available to her growing up were limited, she managed to earn her Ph.D. degree from UCSD in 2006. She attributes much of her success to programs such as SACNAS and USTAR (NIGMS) which played important roles in her decision to go to graduate school. She is currently an IRACDA fellow at TSRI/UCSD, and she is looking forward to implement her knowledge in a predominantly undergraduate institution that views teaching and research critical for their chemistry education program. Her interests are total synthesis of natural products and methodology development.
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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. Andrea Rocha
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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. Maria Elena Rodriguez
Dr. Maria Elena Rodriguez has a Bachelor Degree on Chemical Engineer and a PhD on Behavioral Science at the University of Guadalajara. She is a National Researcher (Level 1) as recognized by the Mexican Concil of Science ant Technology (CONACYT). She is a teacher researcher at the Center of Studies and Research on Behavior of the University of Guadalajara where she is doing research on faculty development (with a grant given by CONACYT) and learning experimental sciences (mathematics, physics and chemistry).
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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. Daniel Romo
Daniel Romo, who considers himself a 2nd generation Mexican-American, received his B.A. in chemistry/biology from Texas A&M and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Colorado State University as a NSF Minority Graduate Fellow. Following postdoctoral studies at Harvard as an American Cancer Society Fellow, he began his independent career at Texas A&M in 1993 and is currently Professor of Chemistry. NIH, NSF, and the Welch Foundation support his research and he served as a regular member of the NIH Med Chem A Study Section (2002-6). His research interests are at the interface of chemistry and biology focused on natural product synthesis.
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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. Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, February 24th, 1964. Received his Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Biology and Chemistry from Vanderbilt University in 1986. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics at the University of Cinnicnati School of Medicine, where he studied mouse ES cells and their in vitro differentiation under the tutelage of Dr. Jeffrey Robbins and Thomas Doetschman. In 1994, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Donald D. Brown at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology as a postdoctural fellow and in 1995 was appointed Staff Associate. It was during this period that Dr. Sanchez Alvarado began to explore systems in which to molecularly dissect the problem of regeneration. In 2002 he became as Associate Professor at the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah School of MEdicine, and in 2005 he was promoted to Professor and appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His current efforts are aimed at elucidating the molecular basis of regneration using the free-living flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea.
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Dr. Gregory Schultz
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Dr. Russell Schwartz
Dr. Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in computational biology. He received his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2000, all from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then did post-doctoral studies in the M.I.T. Biology Department followed by work as an Informatics Research Scientist at Celera Genomics Corporation before joining Carnegie Mellon in 2002.
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Dr. Gail Scowcroft
Gail Scowcroft is a marine geologist. Having conducted climate change research for 18 years, she has been administering education and outreach programs for the last 16 years. She currently teaches graduate ocean science courses for educators in oceanography and climate change and is conducting several ocean science education and outreach programs for K-16 educators and students.
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Dr. Barbara Shinn Cunningham
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham received her training in electrical engineering at Brown University (Sc.B., 1986) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., 1989; Ph.D., 1994). She joined the faculty of Boston University in 1996, where she is an Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS), Biomedical Engineering, and the Program in Neuroscience. She is also Director of Graduate Studies in CNS and on the governing board of the Boston University Center for Neuroscience. She also is on the faculty of the Harvard/MIT Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology Program and the Naval Postgraduate School. Her research onauditory attention, sound source separation, spatial hearing, and perceptual plasticity is funded by numerous agencies, both for application to human health and auditory display. In 2008, she was named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow to pursue this work, one of six fellows selected from over 400 applicants.
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Dr. Brian Sidlauskas
Brian Sidlauskas studies the biodiversity, anatomy, evolution, ecology and taxonomy of characiform fishes, an amazingly diverse group of more than 1600 species that includes neon tetras, piranhas and his specialty, the South American headstanders (they really do swim with their heads pointing down). Brian completed a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology in 2006 at the University of Chicago and Field Museum and currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina. His scientific contributions include reconstruction of a tree-of-life depicting the evolutionary relationships of the headstanders, descriptions of new species, and studies of the evolutionary forces driving the diversification of head and jaw shape in fishes.
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Dr. Lee Siegel
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Dr. Paula Spaeth
Paula Ann Spaeth is a post-doctoral fellow at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC. She received her doctorate in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from Brown University. Her interest is in the ecological drivers of mammalian evolution within modern and ancient communities. In particular, she is focusing on competitive interactions among closely related species over evolutionary time-scales.
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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. Claudia Tebaldi
Claudia Tebaldi is a Research Scientist at Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, a new non-profit organization dedicated to the synthesis and communication of the science and the solutions of climate change. Her research focuses on the analyis and statistical characterization of climate change projections and their uncertainty, as derived from climate models, especially at the regional scale. SHe is particularly interested in the relation between climate models' performance in simulating current climate and and the reliability of their simulations of future climate. She is a contributing author of IPCC AR4, for Chapter 10, Global Climate Projections, and Chapter 11, Regional Climate Projections, by Working Group I and Chapter 2, New Assessment Methods and the Characterization of Future Conditions, by Working Group II.
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Dr. Monica Tsethlikai
Monica Tsethlikai is an enrolled member of the Zuni Nation and an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Utah in the developmental program. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2005 in cognitive and quantitative psychology. Her research examines cognitive development in children with a special focus on memory in social contexts. She is also interested in cultural aspects of cognitive development and memory. In addition, her work examines how individual differences in basic cognitive processes relate to the development of social competence and well-being.
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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. Craig Tweedie
F. Stuart Chapin, III is a Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology and Wildlife at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he joined the faculty in 1973. Most of his research is about the effects of changes in climate and wildfire on Alaskan ecology and rural communities. He is especially interested in ways that communities and agencies can develop options that increase sustainability of ecosystems and human communities over the long term in spite of rapid climatic and social changes. Through his research, he tries to determine how climate, ecology, and subsistence resources are likely to change in the future. This information should enable people to make more informed choices about options for long-term sustainability. Terry teaches classes at the university, directs the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program and assists Gary Kofinas in directing the interdisciplinary graduate (IGERT) program in Resilience and Adaptation.
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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. Graciela Unguez
Dr. Graciela A. Unguez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at New Mexico
StateUniversity. She received her doctorate from the department of Physiological Science in
UCLA, and continued on to a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Zoology at the
University of Texas atAustin. Her research interests have focused on studying the mechanisms
responsible for the formation and plasticity of electromotor circuits. Currently, her lab uses the
electromotor system of weaklyelectric fish to study how the skeletal muscle program is modified
to switch to become the electric organ, that is, a non-contractile tissue specialized to generate
electricity, and determine the role playedby the nervous system in the differentiation of
electrogenic cell types.
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Dr. Alexandra Valdes
Alexandra Valdes-Wochinger grew up in Puerto Rico, where her proximity to the ocean stoked her interest in marine conservation. She earned a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, where she was active in undergraduate research and student organizations. She participated in the Leadership Alliance Summer Research—Early Identification program (SR-EIP), the Marine Science REU program at Stony Brook, and was awarded a MARC fellowship and an ADVANCE Faculty in Training fellowship. She is currently a PhD candidate and a Turner fellow of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University. As part of her thesis dissertation she is studying the transmission, survival and viability of human viruses across marine ecosystems. She expects to obtain her Ph.D. in May 2009 and continue postdoctoral research.
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Dr. Maria Varela
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Dr. Griselda Velazquez
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Dr. Brit Ventura
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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. Cristina Villalobos
Cristina Villalobos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas-Pan American. Her research interests include linear and nonlinear optimization, applications of optimization, and mathematics education.
Dr. Villalobos earned her B.S. in Mathematics (1994) from the University of Texas-Austin and her M.S. and Ph.D. (2000) from Rice University in Computational and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Villalobos is actively involved in mentoring undergraduate students from underrepresented groups onto graduate school. She is a 1994 Ford Foundation Predoctoral fellow. She and her spouse share the responsibility of raising two children, ages 4 and 6.
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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. Janet Warburton
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Dr. Denise Wartes
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Dr. James Washburne
James Washburne is the Asso.Dir. of Education for SAHRA, an NSF Science and Technology Center focused on better understanding semi-arid water resource management issues and transferring this knowledge to a wide range of stakeholders, from policy makers to water managers to students at all levels. Jim has been active in the GLOBE program nationally as well as many programs to promote hydrologic and scientific literacy throughout southern Arizona. Currently, he is developing watershed visualizations using GIS and 3-d software.
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Dr. Suzanne Weekes
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Dr. Karen Wegner
Wegner is the Director of K-12 Education in the NSF Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction (CMOP) at Oregon Health & Science University. She works with teachers, non-formal educators, CMOP researchers and partners Saturday Academy, The Science & Mathematics Investigative Learning Program, Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and the Office of Science Education Opportunities to engage students in STEM education using CMOP research as the foundation. Wegner sits on the CMOP Senior Management Team.
Prior to arriving at CMOP, Wegner was a Regional Education Coordinator for Oregon Trout. Her primary responsibility was managing the Salmon Watch program in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Wegner worked for the U.S. Geological Survey as a Wildlife Biologist, and with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Biologist.
Wegner spoke at the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Florida, on: Cultural Sensitivity, Relevance, and the Importance of Family: Working with Underrepresented Students in Coastal Margin Science.”
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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. Daniel Wildcat
He is the director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies (HERS) Center and American Indian Studies faculty member at Haskell Indian Nations University. Mr. Wildcat has been an invited speaker on North American Indian Worldviews at Harvard Medical School, Creighton University, and University of California, Riverside, and many other institutions of higher education. Power and Place: Indian Education in America (2001) is his first book and it is the result of a friendship and scholarly collaboration with the "dean" of American Indian critical thinking, Vine Deloria Jr.
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Dr. Richard Wilson
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Dr. Terry Wilson
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Dr. Patricia Yager
Dr. Yager (Ph.D, University of Washington) is an Associate Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is a marine microbial ecologist and biogeochemical oceanographer. Her research focuses on climate and the marine biosphere, particularly how climate change impacts the marine carbon cycle. Her interest in climate-sensitive regions has motivated research in Arctic, Antarctic, and Amazon River plume ecosystems. Originally from the Northwest, she lives in Athens, Georgia, with her favorite geologist and their two sons.
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Dr. Mary Lou Zeeman
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