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Achievers Award for Washington, DC. Judith is nationally known for her advocacy for encouraging girls and women in the sciences and received a National Science Foundation grant to support GRITS (Girls Raised In Tennessee Science). She is the director of the MTSU Expanding Your Horizons conference, an international conference that encourages girls in middle and high school to explore STEM education and careers. Both GRITS and EYH facilitated her involvement as director of the GRITS Collaborative Project, which is the Tennessee branch of the National Girls Collaborative Project. She is program chair of the National Women Chemists Committee, faculty advisor of the MTSU Women In Science and Engineering student organization and director of the new WISTEM (Women In STEM) Center for Tennessee. At SSI 2010, Judith will co-lead a workshop on “Enhancing the Participation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM” and present a poster on “Five Years of SENCER at Middle Tennessee State University.” Asaad Istephan is a professor of physical and applied science at Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan. Asaad regularly teaches Meteorology and Climatology, Physics, Earth Science, Astronomy, Science Foundation and the Ascent of Man courses. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Liverpool University, England and his master’s and PhD in meteorology and applied climatology from Birmingham University, England. He has worked as a director of the Regional Meteorological Training Center and as a senior scientific researcher at the Solar Energy Research Center. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in the fields of solar meteorology, atmospheric physics, environmental pollution and astronomy. He served on the World Meteorological Organization executive committee panel of experts in education and training. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences At SSI 2010, Assad will co-present the concurrent session “Field Reports: Transforming Science Education at Madonna University and SENCER in a First-Year Learning Community—Questions to Ask Yourself.” Nadezhda (Nana) Japaridze is an associate professor of neurocytology at Saint Andrew Georgian University and a senior scientist at the department of neurocytology, I. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology in Tbilisi, Georgia. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry and her doctoral degree in cytology, histology and embryology at the Tbilisi State University. As a research biologist, Nana studies structural peculiarities of neurons and glial cells in various conditions (memory, addiction, epilepsy), with different methods (optical, electron and starts atomic force microscopy). In 2005-2006 she was involved as a project facilitator in SENCER – Georgia supplemental project (NSF) that started in three main Universities of Georgia. In the framework of the project several SENCER models were adapted and implemented in all three universities, and additionally in secondary school too. With her colleagues from Ilia State and Georgian Technical Universities through SENCER Innovation Center, Nana also promotes the SENCER approach along with the implementation of other modern teaching and learning methods into different universities and high schools in Tbilisi and regions. At SSI 2010, Nana will co-present the concurrent session “Field Reports: International SENCER Initiatives.” David Johnson is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Dayton. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry for Illinois Institute of Technology in 1979 and his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1983. While in graduate school, he was assigned to the Educational Technology Center as a research assistant. While there he realized that anything that keeps a student’s interest on a topic will improve learning. Dave started at the University of Dayton in 1984. At the University of Dayton, he has taught General Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, and Environmental Chemistry. His research interests include the design and breakdown of synthetic lubricants and additives for the 54
aerospace and refrigeration industries, chemistry of lithium in solution and more traditional inorganic synthesis projects. Dave has applied SENCER ideas in the environmental chemistry course for the last several years with a significant increase in enrollment and attendance. He is currently attempting to add SENCER components into the general chemistry courses. He is interested in developing a SENCER course on the chemistry of art and art restoration to be a part of the Integrated Natural Science Sequence at the University of Dayton. At SSI 2010, David will co-present a concurrent session entitled “Field Reports: Large Scale SENCER Initiatives at Indiana State University and the University of Dayton.” Trace Jordan holds a bachelor’s degree in applied physics, a master’s in history and philosophy of science, and a doctorate in chemistry. From 1994-1996, he was the John Dewey Fellow in science studies at the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research in New York. He currently works at New York University (NYU) as associate director of the general education curriculum – the Morse Academic Plan. He teaches in and administers the Foundations of Scientific Inquiry program, a largescale core curriculum in mathematics and science for non-science majors. His work on the Energy and the Environment course at NYU was recognized as a SENCER model. Trace serves as a SENCER senior associate and is a member of the Leadership Council for the SCI-Midatlantic. He is the co editor-in-chief of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal. In addition to his work with SENCER, Trace has been a Project Kaleidoscope faculty member for the 21st Century since 1998 and serves on the Programming Committee for the Chemical Education Division of the American Chemical Society. He also serves as Director of Special Projects for the Faculty Resource Network, a national consortium of schools that includes many minority-serving institutions. Trace received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996 and is a two-time recipient of the Golden Dozen Teaching Award from NYU’s College of Arts and Science (2006 and 2009). At SSI 2010, Trace will co-present a concurrent session on “Disseminating Your Work: The SENCER Journal and Model Series.” He will also co-facilitate work sessions on “Designing a SENCER Course,” “Planning Next Steps and Accessing Resources,” and “What is Civic Engagement” Joseph J. Karlesky is the Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College. He received his bachelor's degree from La Salle College and his PhD in public law and government from Columbia University. He is co-author of The State of Academic Science: The Universities in the Nation's Research Effort and three editions of American Government, an American government textbook. He has also authored the monograph, Thinking About Environmental Policy. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and has served as a consultant for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on home rule for municipalities and on academic science policy for the State of Montana. He has served as associate dean for academic affairs at Franklin & Marshall and as co-director of the University of Pennsylvania Master of Governmental Administration Program in Harrisburg. His teaching and research interests focus on public policy, particularly the interrelationships between public policy and science and technology and the consequences of these interrelationships for policies in energy and health. He is currently doing research on decision-making models and dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel. His future research includes from the perspective of politics analysis of what makes public issues complex and contested and the limits of science in helping to resolve such issues. He regularly teaches courses in American government, understanding public policy, public policy implementation, and a seminar on health policy and serves as co-chair of the public health major at Franklin & Marshall. At SSI 2010, Joseph will co-present a concurrent session on “The Public Health Major in an Undergraduate Setting.” 55
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