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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee and Staff
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee and Staff
Pages 77-84
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The NSF-funded MIL Project trained math and science faculty from five institutions in the New York metropolitan area in the development and utilization of multimedia applications designed to enhance the active role of students in the learning process. As chair of the Minority Affairs Committee for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
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DePass currently directs a funded research program that explores cancer-related gene regulation. His laboratory provides training for students at the high school, bachelor's, and master's levels, among which several students from underrepresented minorities have gone onto competitive doctoral programs.
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Garrison has experience in biomedical research policy, statistical analysis, scientific workforce analysis, program evaluation, and surveys for agencies including NSF and NIH. He is currently vice president and member of the Board of Directors for the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, past president of the District of Columbia Sociological Society, and a former member of the NIH Minority Access to Research Careers Study Advisory Group.
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, and senior science advisor for the International Women in Science and Engineering program. She conducts faculty development workshops on topics including assessment strategies, service learning, community- and discovery-based undergraduate research, using research to inform curricular design, and pedagogies associated with learning
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. He is study director or staff officer for several ongoing projects, including the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology, A Leadership Summit to Effect Change in Teaching and Learning: Undergraduate Education in Agriculture, the National Academies Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee, Biomolecular Materials and Processes, and Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences.
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He also served for three years as deputy director of the NRC's Center for Education and was the study director and responsible staff officer for the NRC reports Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (2003) ; Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S.
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Walter is a program assistant with the Board on Life Sciences of the National Research Council.
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He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1978. Paula Tarnapol Whitacre has served as a consultant writer and editor for more than 10 years, working on print and online publications for organizations that include the National Research Council, National Institutes of Health, Resources for the Future, U.S.
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