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In August of 2008, Richard organized a symposium for the national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in the Division of Chemical Education featuring speakers from around the country presenting the “why for's” and “how top’s” of SENCER. As a result of that symposium, he edited and contributed a chapter to Science Education and Civic Engagement: The SENCER Approach, published by the American Chemical Society Symposium Books series. Along with Trace Jordan and Matt Fisher, Richard helped organize another symposium (Civic Engagement and Chemistry Education) for the annual meeting of the ACS in 2009. He has also presented invited talks on the SENCER approach to the annual meeting of Partners in Science (San Diego, CA) and at the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (College Park, MD). At SSI 2010, Richard will be a panelist on the work session “Planning Next Steps and Accessing Resources” and a co-facilitator of the work session “Designing a SENCER Course.” Jessica Slater is a science education analyst in the division of undergraduate education at the National Science Foundation. At SSI 2010, she will co-present the workshop “Writing Good Proposals to Support Scaling Up Your SENCER Work.” Additional biographical information was unavailable at the time of publication. Garon Smith is a professor of chemistry at the University of Montana. He received a bachelor’s of art in environmental biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and his PhD in applied chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines. He has been a SENCER senior associate since a 2004 sabbatical spent at the SENCER national headquarters and was named a SENCER Leadership Fellow. In that capacity he works to help schools SENCERize courses by linking environmental and health issues with specific disciplinary principles; and promotes SENCER poster sessions within the NCUR organization for which students prepare two versions of their project – one for technical specialists in their disciplinary field and one for a more general public audience. Under an NSF sub-award, in the guise of G. Wiz (Garon the Wizard), he makes nearly a hundred school visits each year to promote interest in the STEM fields. Garon has applied SENCER to his Introductory Chemistry Course for 900 students and to the development of learning communities on environmental/health policy formulation for both freshman and upper division science majors. He also helped build a consortium of high schools and two-year tribal colleges throughout western Montana, northern Idaho and Alaska to perform air quality sampling and relate it to public health statistics on asthma and cardiovascular disease. Garon’s research involves environmental applications of mass spectrometry, 3-D fluorescence spectroscopy, toxics use reduction, aqueous environmental chemistry and artificial neural networks. His professional activities include serving as chair of his local Boards of Health, Air Pollution Control, and Water Quality; the Boards' liaison to the Air Quality Advisory Council; the Missoula Transportation Planning Coordinating Committee. He serves on the Board of Governors for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and was a repeat host for the NCUR organization’s 2010 conference in Missoula. Garon has received a number of awards for his teaching and service including the 2008 U.S. Professor of the Year for Montana from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and the 2008 Distinguished Service Award from the Montana Environmental Health Association. At SSI 2010, Garon will present concurrent sessions on “Dramatic Demonstrations to Engage Science Audiences,” “Adapting Large Lecture Formats to SENCERized Teaching and Civic Engagement,” and “STEAM: Adding Arts to the STEAM Disciplines.” He will also be panelist on the work sessions “What is Civic Engagement” and “Advanced Civic Engagement.” 70
Gregory Smith is a biologist at the University of Akron in Akron, OH. He received a bachelor’s of science in zoology from the University of Florida, a master’s of science in biological sciences from Mississippi State University, and a PhD in zoology from the University of Oklahoma. Greg is a conservation biologist and wildlife ecologist, studying ecology at the urban-rural interface. Since 2008, Greg has been a member of the University of Akron SENCER team; a group that recently received a grant from the NSF to establish a STEM learning community for incoming, non-declared students. Greg is also a co-principal investigator on a GLISTEN grant that established a cluster built around service-learning in northeast Ohio. This is Greg’s third SENCER Summer Institute. At SSI 2010, Greg will co-present a concurrent session entitled “Field Reports: Transforming Science Education at Madonna University AND SENCER in a First-Year Learning Community— Questions to Ask Yourself.” Ann Staton has been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Woman’s University since 2005. After earning her PhD in communication from the University of Texas at Austin, she joined the department of communication at the University of Washington in Seattle where she progressed through the professorial ranks and served as professor and chair before moving back to her home state of Texas. Her research and teaching interests are instructional communication, communication education, and the rhetoric of educational reform. As dean of Arts and Sciences at the nation’s largest institution primarily for women, she is committed to excellence in education, the ideals of a liberal education (including social responsibility and civic engagement), and to bringing more women into science. She assembled the first TWU SENCER team in 2006; she and a group of faculty from biology, chemistry and mathematics attended their first SSI in 2007. Since then, the interdisciplinary team has expanded to include faculty in business, and the SENCER efforts are well-established on the TWU campus. She has encouraged and supported an array of SENCER activities, such as designing SENCER courses, attending SSI, giving poster presentations at the Washington Symposium, organizing SENCER symposia at various scientific meetings, and hosting SENCER speakers on the TWU campus for faculty and students across disciplines. While serving as president of the Texas Association of Deans of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Staton introduced her fellow deans to SENCER in a session at the annual meeting. Although not a scientist, she is an ardent advocate of SENCER and proud to be co-director of SCI-Southwest. At SSI 2010, Ann will be a panelist on the work session “Campus-Wide Implementation.” Barbara Tewksbury is a SENCER Senior Fellow and professor of geosciences at Hamilton College, where she holds the Upson Chair. She has spoken widely and published on geoscience education issues and has played a leadership role in the national geoscience education community for many years. As a distinguished speaker for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) for seven years, she has given dozens of workshops to faculty in departments across the country. She has been co-PI on a number of grants to offer workshops for geoscience faculty, including the NAGT Cutting Edge Workshops for Geoscience Faculty, NAGT workshops on Innovative and Effective Teaching in the Geosciences, Course Design in the Geosciences, and Workshops for Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career. She is a past president of the American Geological Institute, a past president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, and served as president of the Geology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research for three years. She is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and served as an elected member of the GSA Council. She was a member of the NSF National Visiting Committee for the Massachusetts Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation. 71
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