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Appendix B: Workshop Information
Appendix B: Workshop Information
Pages 57-76
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, A Associate Dean of Research and Associate Professor of Biology, Long Island University–Brooklyn • arry V Hedges (Committee Co-Chair)
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Gordon Chair of the Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Educational Testing Service • nne Preston, Associate Professor of Economics, A Haverford College 10:45 a.m. Break 11:10 a.m.
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Hedges (Committee Co Chair) , Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, Northwestern University Overview of NIH Efficacy of Interventions to Promote Research Careers R01 Program • hiva P
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Komisaruk, Associate Dean of the B Graduate School, Professor II of Psychology, and Rutgers University Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey • artin M Chemers, Professor of Psychology, M University of California, Santa Cruz 2.
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Reception and informal discussion Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2007 8:00 a.m. B reakout discussions on research questions and approaches This session will follow on the earlier discussions, allowing participants to interact with other partici pants from similar types of institutions in smaller groups and focus on the types of research questions and approaches that are of most interest.
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Burger, Associate Professor, Center for C Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Science & Gender Equity Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering • uajuanda Jordan, Senior Program Officer for T Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute • aRuth C McAfee, Executive Director for L Education, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University • anda E
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The Institute supports more than 4,500 research grants -- about 10 percent of the grants funded by NIH as a whole -- as well as a substantial amount of research training and programs designed to increase the number of minority biomedical scientists. Prior to his appointment as NIGMS director, Dr.
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Burgess is a professor of biology at Boston College and a past president of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, a 30-year-old organization committed to increasing the number of Hispanic and Native American scientists. His Cherokee great grandmother was a medicine woman, his father was a teacher and junior high school principal honored for serving minority students, and his mother was a homemaker.
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Since receiving his PhD in social psychology from the University of Illinois in 1968, he has been an active researcher and has published books and articles on leadership, culture and organizational diversity, and academic success and adjustment. His popular, practitioner-oriented book Improving Leadership Effectiveness: The Leader Match Concept (written with Fred Fiedler)
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She directs or co-directs a number of projects including Science Linkages in the Community, the AAAS Black Church Project, and Science Education Reform for All (a joint science policy project with the Council of Chief State School Officers)
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She is currently a member of the NIH MORE Division's Minority Access to Research Careers subcommittee and has served as the chair of NIH's Minority Biomedical Research Support program and on numerous NIH and NSF scientific review panels. Barry R
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His area of research specialty is the role of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system in the control of reproductive behavior and physiology, and pain control, in humans and laboratory animals. His expertise in research methodology includes human brain imaging using functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, and electrophysiology.
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Recent books include Investing in Children, Youth, Families and Communities: Strengths-Based Research and Policy (edited volume; American Psychological Association) and Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Females (co-author; Oxford University Press)
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Dr. Nettles' research covers such issues as educational access, opportunity, attainment, the consequences of education for various population groups in the United States, state and national assessment, educational funding policies, and educational testing of students at all levels of education.
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Dr. Poodry has particular interest in science education and issues pertaining to American Indian participation in genetics research.
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Steele has received the Dean's Teaching Award at Stanford University, the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society, the Kurt Lewin Award and the Gordon Allport Prize in Social Psychology from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the Senior Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association, and the Cattell Faculty Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and he has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University.
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Purdue University awarded Vice Provost Taylor an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1994 and Hope College awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in August 2001. DePauw University awarded him a Doctor of Pedagogy degree in 2004.
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Ward is a member of the American Psychological Association, where she served as NSF Liaison to the APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Association of Black Psychologists; and the American Educational Research Association. Elias A
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In 1988, he was a consultant to the World Health Organization, and in 1985 he was a consultant to the White House under President Ronald Reagan. A resident of Baltimore, he has won several awards for his research including a Gold Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society for CT research and two Paul Lauterbur Awards for MRI research.
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76 APPENDIX B Imaging (MRI) that resulted in 157 peer-reviewed publications and 8 patents.
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