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Brief Biographies of
Committee Members and Staff
Chair
Cynthia M. Beall (Member, National Academy of Sciences)
S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Cynthia Beall’s primary research focuses on how populations with
different microevolutionary histories adapt to the lifelong environmental
stress of high-altitude hypoxia. She conducts her research with popu-
lations on the Andean plateau of South America, the Tibetan Plateau
of Central Asia, and the Simien Plateau of East Africa. This work has
revealed two different patterns of adaptation to hypoxia rather than the
single universal human response envisioned by classical environmental
physiologists. She also investigates how the influence of the sociocultural
environment can both create and buffer stress and can have beneficial and
detrimental effects on human biology.
She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University
of Pennsylvania and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from
Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Beall also has a long-term interest in evolutionary medicine and
is working with colleagues on her campus and with the National Evolu-
tionary Synthesis Center to develop resources for teaching this topic to
undergraduates.
She has a long record of service to the NAS, including the NAS Coun-
cil, and the NRC. Currently Dr. Beall is a member of the Division Com-
mittee for the Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
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Paul Beardsley
Center for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (CEMaST)
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Paul Beardsley recently joined the faculty at California State Poly-
technic University, Pomona. Previously, he was a science educator at the
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) where he was the principal
investigator (PI) for the NIH-sponsored Evolution and Medicine high
school project and Co-PI for the Rare Diseases and Scientific Inquiry
middle school project. He worked on high school and middle school
comprehensive curricula, including BSCS Science: An Inquiry Approach,
BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, and Agile Mind Biology. He helped
design the on-line professional development program for teachers of
multidisciplinary science called Across the Sciences (a joint project with
Oregon Public Broadcasting) and professional development with a range
of teachers, including developing a leadership institute with Seattle Public
School science teachers. He is also currently conducting research in evolu-
tion education.
In prior faculty positions at Idaho State University and Colorado Col-
lege, Dr. Beardsley helped direct a doctoral-level program in biological
education and participated in a NSF GK-12 program matching graduate
students in science with K-12 teachers. He taught graduate courses in
biology education and educational research, trained pre-service teach -
ers, and also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in evolution,
ecology, botany, and cell biology. Graduate students in his lab carried out
research in plant evolution and biology education.
Dr. Beardsley earned a Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington
in plant evolution. His research focuses on plant molecular systematics,
the genetics of plant speciation, and the genetics of rare plants. He also
earned a secondary science teaching license and taught at both the middle
and high school levels. His research interests in science education include
student learning in evolution and scientist-teacher partnerships.
Ida Chow
Executive Officer
Society for Developmental Biology
Ida Chow is the executive officer of the Society for Developmental
Biology (SDB). She manages the society and participates in many of its
activities, including educational activities such as education symposia
and workshops at the annual and regional meetings, Boot Camp for New
Faculty, a teaching digital library, science education outreach at all levels,
and career issues. She organized SDB’s “perfect partner” participation at
the First USA Science and Engineering Festival held in October 2010, with
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a teacher workshop, a speaker at the Nifty Fifty series, a Nobel laureates
lecture and pre-lecture meeting with local students and their parents, and
a booth with viewing of live frog and zebrafish embryos and other hands-
on activities at the Festival Expo.
Dr. Chow was Co-PI of three NSF Pan American Advanced Studies
Institute (PASI) program grants to conduct short courses for graduate stu-
dents and postdoctoral fellows from U.S. and Latin American institutions
in developmental biology in Brazil (2005), Argentina (2008), and Chile
(2010), a collaboration between SDB and the Latin American Society for
Developmental Biology. She also was the author of an NSF sub-award for
SDB’s teaching digital library, LEADER, a partner of the BEN Pathway
administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence. She chairs the Coalition of Scientific Societies composed of more
than 30 scientific and professional societies, which focuses on teaching
evolution for all; and she coordinated participation of 16 of these societies
in a common activity, the Evolution Thought Trail at the Expo of the 2010
Science and Engineering Festival.
Dr. Chow received her bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences from
Escola Paulista de Medicina in São Paulo, Brazil, and Master’s and Ph.D.
degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She held research
and teaching positions at University of California Irvine, University of
California Los Angeles, and American University (Washington, DC)
before joining SDB. She was elected an American Association for the
Advancement of Science Fellow December 2010.
James P. Collins
Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment,
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
James Collins has been a faculty member at Arizona State University
(ASU) since 1975. His research group studies host-pathogen biology and
its relationship to the decline of species, at times even to extinction. Dr.
Collins’ research also focuses on the intellectual and institutional factors
that have shaped ecology’s development as a science as well as ecological
ethics. Dr. Collins was founding director of ASU’s Undergraduate Biology
Enrichment Program, and served as co-director of ASU’s Undergraduate
Mentoring in Environmental Biology and Minority Access to Research
Careers programs. He has been chairman of the Zoology, then Biology
Department at ASU. At the National Science Foundation he was director
of the Population Biology and Physiological Ecology Program (1985-1986)
and assistant director for biological sciences (2005-2009). Dr. Collins has
a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from Manhattan Col-
lege. He is an elected fellow of AAAS and the Association for Women in
Science and president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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Irene Eckstrand
Program Officer, Models of Infectious Disease
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of
Health
Irene Eckstrand specializes in evolutionary biology, genetics, and
computational biology. As a program director at National Institute of Gen-
eral Medical Sciences, she manages grants that promote research in these
areas and directs a program that promotes computational and mathemati-
cal research to detect, control, and prevent emerging infectious diseases.
The program, called MIDAS (for Models of Infectious Disease Agent
Study), was founded in 2004 with the aim of improving the nation’s abil-
ity to respond to biological threats promptly and effectively. Dr. Eckstrand
also manages a new consortium to develop models of the dynamics of the
scientific workforce and handles NIGMS research focused on evolution-
ary biology, including how pathogens and hosts evolve together; specia -
tion; and the evolution of complex biological systems.
From 1999-2004, Dr. Eckstrand directed the Bridges to the Future
Program, part of the NIGMS Minority Opportunities in Research Divi-
sion. The program assists minority students in making the transition to
baccalaureate and doctoral programs and prepares them for careers in
biomedical research. In the mid 1990s, Dr. Eckstrand directed NIH’s Office
of Science Education and has worked with professional societies, includ -
ing the Society for the Study of Evolution and other groups to promote
effective biology and mathematics education.
Dr. Eckstrand received a bachelor’s degree from Earlham College, a
master’s degree from Wright State University, and a Ph.D. from the Uni -
versity of Texas at Austin.
Kristin Jenkins
Education and Outreach, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
Kristin Jenkins works with the National Evolutionary Synthesis Cen -
ter (NESCent) and the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium to pursue her
interests in biology education. Her experience includes teaching at the
high school and college levels, professional development for K-14 fac-
ulty, curriculum development, and development of outreach programs.
Currently, she is part of the Education and Outreach group at NESCent,
where she has participated in various working groups focused on enhanc-
ing evolution education including Evolution Across the Curriculum, Tree
Thinking in Evolution Education, and Communicating Human Evolution.
As a member of the BioQUEST staff, she is part of the Cyberlearning for
Community Colleges project and other BioQUEST projects. Dr. Jenkins
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is an active member of the Society for the Study of Evolution’s (SSE’s)
Education Committee, working with colleagues to provide professional
development workshops and symposia to both K-12 teachers and SSE
members. She is on the Editorial Board for the journal Evolution: Educa-
tion and Outreach, and is the chair of the Outreach Committee for the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin’s J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution. She
earned her B.A. in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University
of California, San Diego and her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona.
Nancy A. Moran (Member, National Academy of Sciences)
William H. Fleming Professor of Biology, Yale University
Nancy Moran is a leader in the study of the evolution of symbioses
between multicellular organisms and microbes. She uses a variety of
genetic, genomic, and biomolecular tools in studying symbioses, focusing
on symbioses found in plant-feeding insects. This research is part of her
broader interests in the evolution of biological complexity, as found in
complex life histories, interactions among species, and in species-diversity
of larger biological communities. She works with students and postdoc -
toral associates to identify the impacts of microbial symbionts on host sur-
vival and reproduction, the evolutionary origins of microbial symbionts
from free-living bacteria, and genomic changes in evolving symbiont lin -
eages. For her research on symbiosis, she received the 2010 International
Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Dr. Moran received her bachelor’s degree from the University of
Texas and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology from the University of
Michigan.
Dr. Moran has long taught evolutionary biology to undergraduate
students and originated a high school biology research program at Tucson
High School. She has a long record of service on NAS committees. Most
relevant to her nomination to this committee is her service on the author-
ing committee for the 2008 NAS/IOM publication, Science, Evolution, and
Creationism.
SPECIAL CONSULTANT TO THE PROJECT
Dr. Gordon E. Uno joined the Department of Botany and Microbiology at
the University of Oklahoma in 1979, was appointed a David Ross Boyd
Professor of Botany in 1997, and is currently serving as the Department’s
chair. Dr. Uno has authored or co-authored several textbooks includ-
ing: Principles of Botany; Handbook for Developing Undergraduate Science
Courses; Biological Science: An Ecological Approach (a high school biology
text for which he served as editor and contributing author); and Intro-
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ductory Botany Workbook. Dr. Uno was a program officer in the Divi-
sion of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation
in 1998-2000 and serves on the editorial boards of four science and sci -
ence education journals. He was awarded honorary membership by the
National Association of Biology Teachers in 2001 and was its president in
1995. He became a fellow of the AAAS in 2000, and he has received one
national, two state, and three university-level teaching awards. He has
taught nearly 10,000 undergraduates and has led many faculty develop -
ment workshops for university and secondary science instructors. He has
served on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of Biological
Sciences, and he recently published an article on botanical literacy in the
American Journal of Botany. Currently, he is principal investigator for the
NSF-funded “Introductory Biology Project,” which focuses on the under-
graduate freshman biology course; he is also co-PI on another NSF project
dealing with professional development for high school teachers; and he
is a member of several committees of the College Board that are revising
advanced placement science courses.
STAFF
DIRECTOR
Jay B. Labov is senior advisor for education and communication for the
National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. He also
has been the study director for the NRC reports State Science and Technol-
ogy Policy Advice: Issues, Opportunities, and Challenges (2008); Enhancing
Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology
(2007); Linking Mandatory Professional Development to High Quality Teaching
and Learning: Proceedings and Transcripts (2006); Evaluating and Improving
Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology
(2003); Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathemat-
ics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002); Educating Teachers of Science,
Mathematics, and Technology: New Practices for the New Millennium (2000);
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering,
and Technology (1999); Serving the Needs of Pre-College Science and Mathemat-
ics Education: Impact of a Digital National Library on Teacher Education and
Practice (1999); and Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate
Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education (1998). He has
served as director of the Committee on Undergraduate Science Education,
deputy director for the NRC’s Center for Education, and oversees the
National Academy of Science’s efforts to improve the teaching of evolu-
tion in the public schools. Prior to assuming his position at the NRC Dr.
Labov was a member of the biology faculty for 18 years at Colby College
(ME), where he taught courses in introductory biology, topics in neurobi-
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ology, animal behavior, mammalian and human physiology, and tropical
ecology. He was elected as a fellow in education of the American Associa -
tion for the Advancement of Science in 2005. He received his bachelor’s
degree from the University of Miami and masters’ and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Rhode Island.
Cynthia Wei is a National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science &
Technology Policy Fellow, working at the National Academy of Sciences
with Dr. Jay Labov (through December 2011). Dr. Wei recently completed
an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Sci -
ence Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education, where she
worked on a wide range of issues in STEM education, focusing primar-
ily on biology education and climate change education. She has diverse
teaching experiences as a K-6 general science teacher, high school biology
teacher, and university instructor, and she has taught college-level courses
including introduction to zoology, introduction to animal behavior, field
animal behavior, and biology and society. She is also an active member
of the Animal Behavior Society’s Education Committee, and co-orga-
nized a recent education workshop, Vision, Change, and the Case Study
Approach. Dr. Wei received a dual-degree Ph.D. in zoology and ecology,
evolutionary biology, and behavior from Michigan State University, and a
B.A. in neurobiology and behavior from Cornell University. She also was
a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln’s
Avian Cognition Laboratory.
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