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ScienceDays, Inc. is honored to have the
following distinguished leaders of science serving on its Board of
Directors. |
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Dudley Herschbach
Dudley Herschbach has been
Baird Professor of Science at Harvard University since 1976. He has
served as Chairman of the Chemical Physics program and the Chemistry
Department . His teaching includes graduate courses in quantum
mechanics, chemical kinetics, molecular spectroscopy, and collision
theory, as well as undergraduate courses in physical chemistry and
general chemistry for freshmen. He is engaged in several efforts to
improve K-12 science education and public understanding of science. He
serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Science Service, which
publishes Science News and conducts the Intel Science Talent Search
and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. He is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National
Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal
Chemical Society of Great Britain. He won he Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1986 jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, and he was named
by Chemical Engineering News among 75 leading contributors to the
chemical enterprise in the past 75 years (1998). He has published over
400 papers, and his current research is devoted to methods of
orienting molecules for studies of collision stereodynamics, means of
slowing and trapping molecules in order to examine chemistry at long
deBroglie wavelengths, reactions in catalytic supersonic expansions,
and a dimensional scaling approach to strongly correlated
many-particle interactions, in electronic structure and Bose-Einstein
condensates. |
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Steve Warshaw
Dr. Steve Warshaw has been at the North Carolina School of Science and
Mathematics (NCSSM) since 1985. He received his B.A. in Biology from
Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and his Ph.D. in Biology from Yale
University. He worked previously for the U.S. Navy while on active
duty, Texas Water Quality Board, Texas Water Development Board, and
Hardin [Texas] Independent School District. He is the NCSSM Senior
Vice President for Academic Programs, having served in that capacity
since 1992. Previously he was a biology instructor, teaching courses
in genetics, ecology, and research in biology, as well as being Head
of the Science Department. In addition to his administrative duties,
he teaches two courses called “Medical Ethics and Leadership” and
“Environmental Ethics and Leadership.” He is Executive Director of the
North Carolina Student Academy of Science and Secretary of the
National Association of Academies of Science. |
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Myra Halpin
Dr. Halpin has been teaching
chemistry for 35 years, and won the National Science Foundation
Presidential Award for Science Teachers in 1995. She joined with Dr.
Schwartz-Bloom in 1997 to develop the Pharmacology Education
Partnership (PEP) and participates in professional development
workshops given by Raising Interest in Science Education (RISE) each
year. Dr. Halpin's teaching career extends to four states,
Alabama, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. She
received her undergraduate majors in chemistry and biology at
Shorter College, followed by graduate degrees in Science Education
at Virginia State University and North Carolina State University.
She currently teaches chemistry and conduct in-service
professional development activities for teachers via a 2-way
audio-video distance learning program at NCSSM. I addition, she
also broadcast special programs to students. Dr. Halpin also
teaches the Research in Chemistry class at NCSSM and serves as the
mentor for numerous student research projects. |
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Sara Lee Schupf
Ms. Schupf focuses on gaining
recognition for women in science, encouraging more young people to
have an interest in science, and supporting programs that connect
science and society. In 1994, while she was President of the American
Committee for the Weizmann Institute, she established the Weizmann
Woman and Science Award to increase the recognition of outstanding
women scientists, and to provide more visible role models in order to
encourage the next generation of young women scientists. Other
initiatives include the establishment of the Lubin Family Chair for a
woman scientist at Skidmore College and an endowed teaching science
intern at the Emma Willard School, a private secondary school for
young women. Partnering with the National Academy of Science, she and
her family co-funded a series of biographies, Women's Adventures in
Science written for middle school students which was recently
published. Ms. Schupf, the namesake for the Sara Lee Corporation, is
currently serving as a trustee of Skidmore College, Emma Willard
School, The New York Hall of Science, and Chair Emerita of the
American Committee of the Weizmann Institute. She is co-chair of the
Skidmore Capital Campaign. She is also a member of the President's
Circle of the National Academy of Science and a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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