Patricia Beeson is the Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Pittsburgh. She joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 after completing her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Oregon. Dr. Beeson is author or coauthor of numerous scholarly articles on urban economics and public policy. Her research focuses on urban growth, labor markets, and mortgage lending. Her current work explores the impact of public policy on growth. From 2001 to 2004, she served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in Arts and Sciences. In May 2004, she was appointed Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and in 2007 was named Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. Her administrative responsibilities also include enrollment management, assessment and accreditation.

Cheryl Beil is the Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning, Institutional Research and Assessment and Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at George Washington University. Dr. Beil received her B.A. in Social Science from New School for Social Research, her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Washington University, her M.S.W. in Social Work from Washington University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from George Washington University. Having worked at George Washington University (GW) for more than 30 years, she has been instrumental in the development and implementation of assessment, beginning her career as assistant dean of students. Since 1984, when she was charged with directing the University’s Retention Project, she has provided leadership in assessing the undergraduate experience. In 1990, Dr. Beil was asked to establish the Office of Enrollment Research and Retention, and for the next nine years was part of the Enrollment Management team that greatly improved the quality and quantity of applicants to GW and helped increase GW’s retention and graduation rates. In 1999, Dr. Beil moved to Academic Affairs where she established the Office of Academic Planning and Assessment. As Executive Director, her responsibilities included assessing the educational experience of undergraduate and graduate students, providing leadership in the university’s assessment efforts, and improving the retention and graduation rates of undergraduates. Recently, she served as co-chair of GW’s ten-year Middle States reaccreditation efforts and is pleased to report that the University was found to be in compliance with all 14 standards of excellence. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Dr. Beil is Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at GW and for the past 16 years has served as an advisor for incoming undergraduates in Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. In 1997, she was awarded the GW Award for outstanding service to GW, and in 2001 she received CCAS’s Excellence in Academic Advising award for advising freshmen.

Catharine Hoffman Beyer is a Research Scientist at the Office of Educational Assessment University of Washington, and Director of the University of Washington’s Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW SOUL). Ms. Beyer received her M.A. in English from the University of Michigan in 1970. For twenty years she has taught English and writing at the high school, community college, university, and graduate-school levels in Michigan, Oregon, and Washington as well as writing courses linked with courses across the curriculum in the university’s Interdisciplinary Writing Program. She received the English department’s distinguished teaching award for that work in 1997. She co-directed a series of three writing assessment studies for the University of Washington and later served as dean for assessment and institutional effectiveness at a local community college. In her current position, Ms. Beyer assists faculty and departments as they develop learning goals and the methods to assess them. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines, as well as on Seattle city buses.

Henry Biggs is Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Washington University in St. Louis. Dean Biggs oversees the online course evaluations for eight of the colleges at Washington University. In addition, he oversees the online foreign language placement exams for Classical, Romance and East Asian Languages. He also directs and teaches courses in the Praxis Program, a program for Arts & Sciences students who wish to combine their liberal arts education with applied skills for the world of work. In some countries he is better known for his work combining rap with literary conventions, available as "Headmess (R)" on iTunes and Amazon.com.

Bob Bingham is Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Bingham received a B.A. in Art from Montana State University and a M.F.A. in Art from the University of California, Davis. His practice has evolved from ‘green’ mixed-media installations into the public realm to address issues of interconnectedness between the natural and built environment. Currently he is co-directing a community-based project in York, Alabama to grow a sustainable One Mile Garden emanating from the center of town. Professor Bingham’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Italy and Japan and has included many public installations. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants. Professor Bingham teaches a range of courses including EcoArt, 3D Mixed Media, Art In Context, Installation Art, and Environmental Sculpture. His courses often involve collaboration with off-campus organizations such as the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., Austin Green Art, Friends of the Riverfront, and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. Students in Professor Bingham’s courses also collaborate with others on campus as they did in the 2007 Solar Decathlon Project, an international competition. Other student projects have included collaborations with environmental engineers, architects and the Green Practices Committee to creatively design and implement living roofs, rain gardens, bio-retention and soil stabilization systems on campus.

Lillian Bridwell-Bowles is Professor of English, Director of Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC), and Faculty Affiliate in Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Bridwell-Bowles held similar positions at the University of Minnesota where she was a member of the faculty for 22 years. Dr. Bridwell-Bowles earned her B.S. and M.S. at Florida State University, and her Ed.D., from the University of Georgia. While serving as Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing at Minnesota, she also edited an extensive series on writing across the curriculum. She is the author of several books, including Rhetorical Woman: Roles and Representations (with Hildy Miller; University of Alabama Press, 2005) and Identity Matters: Rhetorics of Difference (with Kathleen Sheerin DeVore and Holly Littlefield; Prentice Hall, 1998). Her recent publications on the CxC Program at LSU (co-authored with Warren N. Waggenspack, Jr., Warren R. Hull, David Bowles, Karen Powell, and Jennifer Kelso Farrell) include essays on integrating technical communication into the curriculum for Engineering students. Dr. Bridwell-Bowles served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (1994-95) and was Director of the Minnesota Writing Project (1989-2003). She received the President's Award for Outstanding Service to the Community (Minnesota) in 2002 and was selected for the Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2000.

Paula P. Burger is Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the Krieger School for Arts and Sciences at John Hopkins University. Dr. Burger earned her B.A. and M.A. in political science at Duke University and her Ph.D. in political science at Johns Hopkins University. As Dean of Undergraduate Education, she is the point person for undergraduate academic matters in the Krieger School, and also oversees Homewood Student Affairs, the collection of departments that handle student life, enrollment and other services for both the Krieger School and the Whiting School of Engineering. Prior to taking on the new assignments focused on undergraduate life, Dr. Burger had been Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and International Programs, coordinating inter-divisional, inter-institutional and international programs for Johns Hopkins. She chaired the International Affairs Coordinating Committee and facilitated a number of international initiatives on behalf of the university and its divisions. She also was responsible for the university's 2004 re-accreditation process, including chairing the Re-accreditation Steering Committee. Dr. Burger's current portfolio includes university-wide initiatives to enhance the quality of the undergraduate experience. She also serves as the Johns Hopkins representative to the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).

Sanjeev Chatterjee is Vice Dean, Professor and Executive Director of Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami. Professor Chatterjee earned his M.A, in English Literature from Delhi University and his M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College. He has taught classes in studio and field production, media and society, writing and documentary production. Professor Chatterjee’s earlier documentary work explored issues of identity among people in the Indian diaspora. His films on the topic are “Bittersweet” (1995) about Asian Indians in the United States and “Pure Chutney” (1998) about people of Indian origin in Trinidad. “Pure Chutney” won second place at the Film South Asia competition in Katmandu in 1999. In 2005, Professor Chatterjee completed “Dirty Laundry” - an essay film about people of Indian origin living in South Africa. Professor Chatterjee is producer, co-director and writer of a global motion picture project about potable water entitled “One Water.” Professor Chatterjee was commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to produce television reports about environment and culture in India. The topics of these reports, which were part of National Geographic’s prime time magazine show “National Geographic Today,” ranged from deforestation and habitat fragmentation to the survival of folk and classical dance in India. In addition to the awards he has won for his films, including the Best of Festival, King Award at the Broadcast Education Association’s Media Arts Festival, Professor Chatterjee has received an Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Miami.

Cecilia d’Oliveira is Acting Executive Director and Technology Director, OpenCourseWare at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. d’Oliveira received a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Management from M.I.T. Ms. d’Oliveira oversees the technical infrastructure that supports MIT OpenCourseWare, builds relationships with MIT faculty and staff to plan and evolve OCW, and collaborates with organizations around the world who are implementing OCW as institutional initiatives or national education policy. For over 25 years, she has worked in a variety of information technology positions, focused on technology innovation in support of MIT education, research and business initiatives.

Laura Damuth is Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Advising at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Dr. Damuth received her B.A. from Vassar College, and M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She was hired by UNL in 2000 to develop and direct the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) program, which, at the time, was a new centralized undergraduate research program. Under her guidance UCARE has supported the research of over 2,400 undergraduates in all disciplines, from Music and Art History to Biochemistry and Plant Pathology. Assessment has been a part of the program since its inception. By working alongside the University’s Director of Assessment, Dr. Damuth has implemented yearly review of the program through detailed online student questionnaires and both faculty and student focus groups. Dr. Damuth serves as a Council of Undergraduate Research Councilor (Undergraduate Research Program Division), and is a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and the National Association of Fellowship Advisors. She has made presentations at the national meetings of all these organizations, as well as at previous Reinvention Center meetings.

Lauren A. Denofrio is Teaching Specialist and Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lauren A. Denofrio received her undergraduate degree in Teaching of Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2003. She earned her Masters in Science Teaching of Chemistry from UIUC in 2004 while teaching chemistry at a local high school. She joined the teaching faculty at UIUC in the same year. In addition to teaching chemistry courses with the General Chemistry division, she co-directs the Reaching and Educating America's Chemists of Tomorrow (R.E.A.C.T.) outreach program and co-teaches Chem 199L: The Chemistry and Biology of Everyday Life (CBEL). Her main objectives for chemical education practice and research include augmenting current programs of study in chemistry by understanding how and why laboratory experimentation, service learning, and undergraduate research help students learn chemistry, and both rationalizing and quantifying the impact of these experiential activities on student learning in chemistry.

Arlene Díaz is Associate Professor, Department of History and Director, Latino Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Díaz received her B.A. at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Minnesota. She joined Indiana University in 1996. Professor Díaz specializes in issues of gender and law in 18th to 20th century Venezuela and has published a number of articles on these topics pertaining to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil as well as a monograph entitled Female Citizens, Patriarchs and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1903 (University of Nebraska Press, 2004). She is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Undergraduate Education and General Education Task Force. Dr. Díaz was a Freshman Learning Project fellow in 2006, and one of the founding members and principal investigators of the History Learning Project, with whom she has published two articles.

Nicholas B. Dirks is Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University. Dr. Dirks received his B.A. degree in Asian and African Studies in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Columbia, Dr. Dirks taught at the California Institute of Technology, and at the University of Michigan where he founded the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and History and served as the Director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies and as the Director of Advanced Study Center of the International Institute. Dr. Dirks has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and has held a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics. Dr. Dirks has published more than forty articles on subjects ranging from the history and anthropology of South Asia to social and cultural theory, the history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, and globalization. His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 1987), Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2001), and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). Dr. Dirks has held a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received the Lionel Trilling Award for his book Castes of Mind. He serves on numerous national and international organizations, including as a Fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations.

Christopher Edley is Dean and William H. Orrick, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and faculty co-director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, a multidisciplinary think tank. Dean Edley received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Swarthmore College, and both a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.P.P. from Harvard’s JFK School of Government. He assumed the Deanship of U.C. Berkeley Law School in January 2004 after 23 years as a Harvard Law professor, where he was founding co-director of The Harvard Civil Rights Project (1996-2004). In January 2005, he completed a six-year term as a member of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Dean Edley has also served in two Presidential administrations; he was Assistant Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff during the Carter Administration and the Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1993-95 during the Clinton Administration. He also served as special counsel to President Clinton and as a senior adviser on the President’s Race Initiative in 1997-99. Dean Edley’s areas of special interest include administrative law, education policy, and race. His publications include Not all Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race, and American Values (Hill and Wang, 1996); and Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy, (Yale University Press, 1990). He currently serves on the Division Committee on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education for the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Dean Edley was named in March 2006 to a national nonpartisan commission created to conduct an independent review of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. He is a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and of The Century Foundation, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Council of Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kristia H. Finnigan is Assistant Dean for Administration for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Finnigan earned her B.A. and M.A. from University of Kansas and her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University. In February 2000, Dr. Finnigan became Assistant Dean for Administration in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. In this capacity, she coordinates College strategic planning and assessment activities as well as College reaccreditation preparations. She serves on University committees for general education reform and NSEP scholarships. She held positions with the Washington office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, MBB of America, Inc., and Deutsche Aerospace Washington, Inc. prior to joining the Department of Government and International Studies (now Political Science) at the University of South Carolina in July 1994. From 1998 to 2000, she was Acting Director of the Contemporary European Studies Program and Director of the exchange program between USC and the Institut d’?tudes Politiques in Paris, France. Her areas of academic interest are comparative politics and European and German politics. Dr. Finnigan has taught courses in German on European politics to USC students participating in the Master’s of International Business Studies (MIBS) program in Cologne, Germany.

Michael Gaines is Professor of Biology and at the University of Miami. Dr. Gaines received his B.S. degree from Tulane University and his Ph.D from Indiana University. He teaches courses in introductory biology, genetics and research design at the undergraduate level. Dr. Gaines is director of UM's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Education Program, which aims to increase the number of disadvantaged students in biomedical research careers. He directs a National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) Bridge Program between the University of Miami and Miami-Dade Community College. Its aim is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the sciences transferring from community colleges to research universities who go on to complete baccalaureate degrees in biomedical fields. In addition, Dr. Gaines serves as campus coordinator for the Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and the Leadership Alliance. Both programs provide research experiences for minority students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He also directs an NIGMS Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity, which is a research training program that supports minority graduate students pursuing PhDs in the biomedical sciences. Dr. Gaines has won several teaching award, including the university-wide Excellence in Teaching Award. His research interests are focused on the ecological genetics of endangered small mammal species in South Florida. He was honored by the University’s Sigma Xi Chapter for his research accomplishments with its Scientist of the Year Medal in 2007.

Gerald Gillmore is Director Emeritus of the Office of Educational Assessment at the University of Washington. Dr. Gillmore received his Ph.D. in psychology from Michigan State University. He served as the University of Washington’s Coordinator of Assessment from 1988 until 2001. In that capacity, he worked with departments across the university on assessing their curricula, developed a system of student and alumni surveys, led statewide assessment efforts in writing and quantitative reasoning, and represented the university at the state level. Dr. Gillmore developed the University of Washington’s Instructional Assessment System for collecting students’ course evaluations, a system that is currently used at more than 65 colleges across the nation, as well as at the University of Washington. He also developed and directed the State of Washington’s academic placement testing program. Dr. Gillmore’s research interests and areas in which he has published include measurement theory, faculty evaluation, and assessment of student learning.

Nikki Giovanni is University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech University. She earned her B.A. with honors from Fisk University and attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Professor Giovanni published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968 and was soon dubbed the “Princess of Black Poetry.” Over the course of more than three decades of publishing, lecturing and teaching, she has come to be called both a “National Treasure” and, most recently, one of Oprah Winfrey’s twenty-five “Living Legends.” Many of Professor Giovanni’s 30 books have received honors and awards and her spoken word recordings have also achieved widespread recognition and honors. Her autobiography, Gemini, was a finalist for the National Book Award; Love Poems, Blues: For All the Changes, and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea were all honored with NAACP Image Awards. Most recently, her children's picture book Rosa, about the civil rights legend Rosa Parks, became a Caldecott Honors Book. Her album Truth Is On Its Way, on which she reads her poetry against a background of gospel music, was a top 100 album and received the Best Spoken Word Album given by the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers. Her Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, on which she reads and talks about her poetry, was one of five finalists for a Grammy Award. In 2007, Professor Giovanni was honored as the first poet to receive the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library.

William Scott Green is Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. Dr. Green earned an A.B. in religion at Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in religion from Brown University. Until July 1, 2006, he was Professor of Religion and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester, where he founded the popular Department of Religion and Classics in 1983. He led in developing Rochester’s undergraduate curriculum, and was Director of Rochester’s university-wide Center for Entrepreneurship. Dr Green edited the Journal of the American Academy of Religion for a decade and is Associate Editor of the Harper Collins Dictionary of Religion (Harper, 1995), Editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period (MacMillan, 1996), and Co-Editor of The Encyclopedia of Judaism (E.J. Brill, 2005). He is currently collaborating with David Sloan Wilson on a research project on religion and social evolution. Dr. Green teaches courses in religion and in entrepreneurship and has served as educational director for archeological excavations at multiple sites in Israel and Italy. He served on the board of the Association of American Colleges, the chief academic organization for promoting liberal education, and is a member of the Reinvention Center Executive Board.

Trevor Griffey is a Doctoral Candidate in U.S. History at the University of Washington, and the Project Coordinator for the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.A. in History at the University of Washington in 2004. For the 2007-8 academic year, Mr. Griffey was the UW's Alvord Fellow in the Humanities. He won the 2005 Graduate Research Paper Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA), and was a Fellow at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies from 2002-2003. He is a former Contributing Writer for the Seattle Weekly, Colors NW Magazine, the South Seattle Star, and Real Change.

David M. Hanson is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Stony Brook University. He earned his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty at Stony Brook, Dr. Hanson was a NATO-NSF Fellow at Technical University Munich. Dr. Hanson has held an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a NATO Senior Fellowship, and the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility Fellowship at the National Institute of Science and Technology. He was also an invited scholar at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan. Professor Hanson's research activities have involved studies of excitons and energy transfer in molecular solids, electric field effects in molecular spectra, and the molecular dynamics associated with core-electron excitation and decay in molecules and solids. Dr. Hanson has received several awards for his teaching and developed the Process Workshop model for teaching introductory courses in chemistry that led to the NSF-supported POGIL National Dissemination Project (Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning). He has written an Instructor's Guide to Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning and has conducted over 90 workshops and faculty development seminars on this topic.

Kenneth A. Harrington is Managing Director, The Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington in St. Louis. He received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont, and his M.B.A in Finance and Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on numerous not-for profit and early stage company advisory boards. He directs a fully encompassing, cross campus entrepreneurship effort impacting all schools and academic disciplines. Under Professor Harrington's leadership, Washington University's entrepreneurship programs have received broad recognition, one of the most notable being selected as one of the first Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation's Campuses Initiative schools. His activities include Board Member, Missouri Venture Forum; Board Member, University City Children's Center; Chairperson, Hatchery Seed Capital Fund; Advisory Board Member, Tech Guard Security; Advisor, Minority Youth Entrepreneurship Program; Entrepreneurship Council, Washington University; Entrepreneurial Research Committee, Washington University; Entrepreneurial Curriculum Committee, Washington University; Kauffman Entrepreneurship Medical Research Ph.D. Fellows Committee. Professor Harrington is the author of Rebuilding the American Dream, Restoring American Jobs and Competitiveness through Innovation and Entrepreneurship (with Robert Skandalaris; Pembrook Publishing, 2006).

Daniel E. Hastings is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems and Dean for Undergraduate Education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Hastings received his B.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University and his S.M. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Professor Hastings has taught courses and seminars in plasma physics, rocket propulsion, advanced space power and propulsion systems, aerospace policy, technology and policy, and space systems engineering. Recently, his research has focused on issues related to space systems and space policy. He has published many papers in the field of spacecraft-environment interactions and with Henry Garrett wrote Spacecraft-Environment Interactions (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He has also written on space propulsion and space systems. From 1997-1999, Professor Hastings was chief scientist of the US Air Force. In that role, he served as chief scientific adviser to the chief of staff and the secretary and provided assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission. Professor Hastings is a fellow of the AIAA and INCOSE and an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a member of the National Science Board, the Applied Physics Lab Science and Technology Advisory Panel, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Committee and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Aerospace Corporation.

Donna B. Hamilton is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. From 1990 to 1996, she held the position of Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Humanities where she had major responsibility for undergraduate education and for international affairs initiatives. She worked especially to promote the study of Asian cultures and languages, served on the committees that founded the Maryland Alumni Associations in Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, and chaired the University’s International Affairs Committee. She became an ally of the new effort at that time to found Asian American studies.

From 1998 to 2003, she served as Director of English Undergraduate Studies, overseeing curricular issues and advising services for 700 English majors. During 2003-2004, she served as Interim Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. In July 2004, she was named Associate Provost and Dean. Her responsibilities include oversight of University Honors, College Park Scholar, Letters and Sciences and other programs for freshmen and sophomores. She also oversees Asian American Studies, LGBT Studies, the Center for Teaching Excellence, Army and Air Force ROTC, and all of the TRIO programs on campus. She has responsibility for enrollment management, learning outcomes assessment, transfer student initiatives, academic advising policy, limited enrollment program policy. She has recently led a project that has resulted in innovative new science and technology courses for non-science majors, known as Marquee Courses in Science and Technology.

Hamilton is professor of English with a specialty in sixteenth-century English literature. In addition to a articles and chapters in books on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, her publications include Virgil and The Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (1990); Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992); and Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005). She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses throughout her career.

David Hawthorne is Associate Professor of insect genetics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Hawthorne earned both his B.S. and B.A. degrees from Kent State University in economics and biology, his M.S. in entomology from North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. also in entomology from Cornell University. He then did post doctoral work in maize molecular genetics at the University of Oregon, and in insect evolution and genetics at Cornell before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in College Park. His research program involves the study of insect speciation, particularly that driven by adaptation to different host plants. He has also contributed to research and regulatory efforts targeting the sustainable use of transgenic corn and the development of malaria resistant mosquitoes. His teaching includes both the most advanced graduate students in a population genetics course and non-science focused undergraduates taking core requirements in science. For both audiences, Dr. Hawthorne is concerned about the state of the art of science education.

Robert D. Hudson is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Hudson received his B.S. with Special Honors and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Reading, United Kingdom. Before joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Hudson served as the Head of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; was Manager of Advanced Planning and Technology at the Earth Science and Applications Division at NASA HQ; was Head of the Stratospheric Physics Branch at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; was Project-Manager of the Environmental Effects Project Office at NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas; was a Senior Staff Scientist in the Science and Applications Directorate, NASA/Johnson Space Center; and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado. Professor Hudson's research interests are in the derivation of ozone column density, ozone profiles, aerosol concentration, and sulfur dioxide in the troposphere and stratosphere from ultraviolet radiances observed from satellites, and in the application of these results to an understanding of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. Dr. Hudson has served as President of the International Ozone Commission and is a Member of the Board of the Oceans and Atmospheres, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

Carolyn S. Jones is Assistant Dean of the Undergraduate Division, Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Jones holds a B.S. from the University of Georgia and a Master’s and Ed.D. in Curriculum from the University of South Carolina. With the University since 1980, Dr. Jones served as Director of the Undergraduate Division from 1989 until being named Assistant Dean in 2003. In her current position, Dr. Jones is responsible for college-level administration and operation of the Undergraduate Division, managing services for over 3,000 students. Her accomplishments in this position include implementation of a program to recruit and support under-represented students, establishing the Palmetto-Moore Student Research Team in which student researchers work on issues aimed at raising the pre-capita income in South Carolina, and establishing an Emerging Leaders Program to recognize students who have distinguished themselves in academics, leadership, and involvement in the Moore School and in the Carolina Community. She has served on numerous committees at the University including serving as Chair of the Assistant and Associate Dean Council. Dr. Jones’ academic honors include election to Phi Kappa Phi. She was co-recipient of the Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award presented by the University and was recognized as an Ambassador of Global Learning.

Wendy Katkin is the Director of the Reinvention Center. Dr. Katkin earned an M.S. in psychology and her Ph.D. in English from State University of New York at Buffalo. Before serving as the founding Director of the Reinvention Center, Dr. Katkin served as the Associate Provost for Educational Initiatives and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Stony Brook. She founded, and for five years directed, Stony Brook's nationally-recognized Women in Science and Engineering project (WISE), designed to engage high-ability high school and college women in the excitement and challenge of science and math. She also initiated many of the University's undergraduate research programs which were critical to Stony Brook receiving an NSF Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education (1997), and a TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning (1999). Dr. Katkin has written on issues relating to undergraduate education and to women in science, and is co-editor of a book, Beyond Pluralism: Essays on the Definition of Groups and Group Identities in American History (with Ned Landsman and Andrea Tyree; University of Illinois Press, 1998). Her three most recent publications are "Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report" in Undergraduate Research: Models for Learning through Inquiry (Jossey-Bass, 2003); "The Integration of Research and Education: A Case Study in Reinventing Undergraduate Education at a Research University" in Reinvigorating the Undergraduate Experience through Research and Inquiry-Based Learning (Council of Undergraduate Research, 2003), and "Building Connections in Research Universities" published in Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines (The Mathematical Association of America, 2004).

Alphonse Keasley is Assistant Vice Chancellor, Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and Assistant Professor-Attendant, The Honors Program and Director of the Minority Arts and Sciences Program (MASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As MASP’s director, Dr. Keasley brings his varied academic background in curriculum design and higher education pedagogy to bear in developing an intellectual community for his MASP students. He has received several Western Alliance to Expand Student Educational Opportunities (WAESO) grants to support MASP students during their first summer. Dr. Keasley loves teaching in a research university setting, having contributed to such campus programs as The Honors Program; the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, the Leadership Certificate Program and the MASP. Dr. Keasley used his expertise as an audiologist with an emphasis in habilitative and rehabilitative audiology, teaching in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado until 1983. He is a leading authority on the plays of August Wilson as well as African-American theatre more generally. In addition to contemporary matters pertaining to theatrical arts, he continues the intellectual study and performance of Shakespearean works. Dr. Keasley has had leadership responsibilities in CU’s Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity Alliance Management Team (CU LEAD Alliance), the Enhancement for Undergraduate Education, the Honors Program Advisory Committee and the Boulder Faculty Assembly. As a long-standing advocate of engaged scholarship and public intellectualism, Dr. Keasley seeks opportunities to strengthen the town-gown dynamic. In the Boulder community Dr. Keasley has contributed to several citizen-initiated activities and leadership positions. He is also an active member of the Boulder-Denver theatre community since 1974. He became a member of the CSF Guild Board of Directors in 2004. He has performed as a regular company member with the Denver Center Theatre Company, having solidified his theory-to-practice commitment in the humanities and arts becoming a member of Actor’s Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers. Keasley also can be heard over PBS (Public Broadcast Stations) as a voice-over talent. With Centre Communication’s Executive Director, Ron Meyer, Keasley co-produced, co-wrote and narrated the critically acclaimed The History of Black Achievement in America. In addition to scholarly contributions in leadership studies and performance-scholar activities, Dr. Keasley maintains international relations through the Sakon-Keasley Intercultural Communication Society. He has received four recognitions for his contributions to the university community: the Alumni Association’s George Norlin Award, highest award to Boulder-based university faculty/staff; the Thomas Jefferson Award; and the Equity and Excellence Award for Leadership; and, the Boulder Faculty Assembly’s 2008 Service Award.

Laura Kissel is a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of South Carolina. Professor Kissel earned her B.A. in cinema and photography from Ithaca College and her M.F.A. in Radio-TV-Film from Northwestern. Professor Kissel has received numerous fellowships and grants for her work, including a Fulbright Award (2009), a MacDowell Fellowship (2006) and funding from the South Carolina Humanities Council (2003 and 2008). She was named the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Media Arts Fellow for 2007-2008. Her documentary work explores issues surrounding landscape use and meaning, the representation of history, and the use of orphan films. Her media projects in progress include a documentary about disability rights and a documentary on South Carolina cotton and globalization. Professor Kissel teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in video, film and documentary production and media theory and production. She has been a visiting artist at Evergreen State College, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and at her undergraduate alma mater, Ithaca College.

Raymond Knapp is Professor and Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Knapp earned his B.A. cum laude in music from Harvard, his M.A. in composition from Radford, and his Ph.D. in musicology from Duke. He composes (mostly tonal) music and plays second violin in the Santa Monica Symphony. Dr. Knapp’s address a wide range of additional interests, including Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, nationalism, musical allusion, music and identity, and film music. The author of numerous essays and several books, including Brahms and the Challenge of the Symphony (Pendragon Press, 1997), Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler’s Re-cycled Songs (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (Princeton University Press, 2005), and The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006), Dr. Knapp is completing a book that considers Haydn and American popular music in the context of German Idealism. He has originated courses on Mozart and on the American Musical, and has recently given seminars on nationalism, Mahler, Haydn, Mozart, absolute music, allusion, and the American musical. Both in his courses and in his publications, Dr. Knapp has led the way in providing internet-based supporting resources. Dr. Knapp has led many campus-wide committees at UCLA, including the Undergraduate Council’s Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate Council, General Education Governance, the College’s Faculty Executive Committee, and the steering committee to prepare for UCLA’s re-accreditation.

Ralph Kuncl is Provost and Executive Vice President at the University of Rochester. Dr. Kuncl earned his A.B. from Occidental College, his Ph.D. and M.D. from the University of Chicago, and an Executive Medical Business Graduate Certificate from Johns Hopkins University. Responsibility for the academic integrity of the University of Rochester entails oversight of the deans and directors of the Eastman School of Music, the Simon School of Business, the Warner Graduate School of Education, Information Technology, River Campus Libraries, the Center for Entrepreneurship, the Memorial Art Gallery, and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics but also university-wide initiatives in technology transfer, sustainability, diversity, and multidisciplinarity. Before becoming Provost and Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Rochester, he served as Provost and Professor of Biology at Bryn Mawr College, and before that Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University. A national leader in the neurosciences, Dr. Kuncl has authored over 150 scholarly publications, edited scholarly journals, earned numerous fellowships, and received many honors, including the Frank Ford Award for outstanding teaching in neurosciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and most recently the Distinguished Service Award of the University of Chicago. He has trained numerous post-graduate and undergraduate students who have gone on to named fellowships and research awards themselves. The inaugural volume of the philosophy journal, Prometheus, was dedicated to his mentoring of undergraduates. As a former Fellow of the American Council on Education, he focused his research on how one might best re-design an undergraduate school of arts and sciences that exists within the mission of a strong research university. A recent publication was a national study of federal under-investment in research within higher education, as compared with health and defense.

Steven Lamy is Professor of International Relations and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lamy earned his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver. In his current position, he is charged with overseeing undergraduate programs and undergraduate recruitment, as well as counseling for current students and counseling for life beyond college. His areas of expertise include international relations theory; foreign policy analysis; the foreign policies of the Western nation-states with an emphasis on Western European states, the U.S. and Canada; human security; and teaching and curriculum development in international relations. Dr. Lamy has published more than forty articles and book chapters in these areas. He is co-authoring an introductory textbook in international relations to be published by Oxford Press. He currently co-directs a Luce Foundation-funded project on religion and international relations. Dr. Lamy remains the primary faculty adviser and instructor for the Center for Active Learning in International Studies and the Teaching International Relations Project. Dean Lamy has received eighteen awards for excellence in teaching from colleagues and students, including the Burlington National Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, USC’s Teaching Has No Boundaries Award. In year 2005, Dr. Lamy was named a Distinguished Teaching Fellow for USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching.

Sanford V. Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Levinson earned his A.B. at Duke University, his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Stanford University. Previously a member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, he is also a Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of over 250 articles and book reviews in professional and popular journals, Dr. Levinson is also the author of four books: Constitutional Faith (Princeton University Press, 1988; winner of the Scribes Award); Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Duke University Press, 1998); Wrestling With Diversity (Duke University Press, 2003); and, most recently, Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) (Oxford University Press, 2006). He has also edited or co-edited several books including a leading constitutional law casebook. Dr. Levinson has taught seminars on the moral and legal debates surrounding torture at Harvard Law School and University of Texas Law School. He is also a regular participant on the popular blog, Balkinization. He has held visiting positions at Boston University, Georgetown, Harvard, New York University, and Yale law schools, as well as the law faculties at the University of Paris II, Central European University in Budapest, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Levinson is also affiliated with the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jewish Philosophy in Jerusalem. A member of the American Law Institute, Levinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Yi Lu is Professor of Chemistry, Alumni Research Scholar, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, and Part-time Faculty in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. degree from Beijing University and his Ph.D. for UCLA. After two years postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology he joined the University of Illinois in 1994. His major research interests are in artificial biocatalysts and catalytic DNA/RNA biosensors. Dr. Lu has published 120 articles, holds seventeen patents and has been the recipient of numerous grants. His work has been recognized by several awards and honors including: his appointment as a professor in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; his election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award; an Early Career Award from the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Dr. Lu has also received the University of Illinois SCS Excellence in Teaching Award and the Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research (UIUC).

Daniel Maier-Katkin is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fellow of the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University. Professor Katkin received his B.A. from City College of New York and J.D. from Columbia Law School. He also holds a Diploma in Criminology from the University of Cambridge). Professor Katkin served as Dean of FSU’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice from 1994 to 2003. Prior to assuming this position he was on the faculty at Pennsylvania State University, where he chaired his department for fourteen years, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of two books and more than fifty articles focused on criminal law, civil rights, juvenile delinquency, drug policy and the administration of justice. His recent work, including articles in Human Rights Quarterly, Tikkun and the Harvard Review, has focused on crimes against humanity and especially the work of Hannah Arendt. He is currently working on a book (under contract with W.W.Norton) on the love, estrangement and reconciliation of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.

Jerome J. McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Dr. McGann received his B.S. from LeMoyne College, his M.S. from Syracuse University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A scholar and teacher of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, and of history and theory of texts, Dr. McGann has written more than twenty books, including most recently The Point is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present (University of Alabama Press, 2007) and The Scholar's Art: Literature and Scholarship in an Administered World (University of Chicago Press, 2006). In addition to his scholarly books on major writers and aspects of literary criticism, Dr. McGann has published several volumes of poetry and has edited several collections of critical essays. In 2002, he won the James Russell Lowell Award for the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year from the Modern Language Association for Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web (Palgrave/St. Martins 2001). The recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and honors, Dr. McGann is the president of the Society for Critical Exchange.

Jill McKinstry is Director of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library and Learning Commons and Special Assistant to the Dean of University Libraries for Undergraduate Education and Programs at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from the University of Washington. She also received a Master of Librarianship from the University of Washington in 1987. As a librarian at the UW for the past 21 years, Ms. McKinstry is a passionate advocate for libraries and partnerships within the campus and community and works closely with the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, and Learning and Scholarly Technologies.

Paula McClain is Professor of political science, public policy and African and African American Studies; Director, Ralph Bunche Institute; and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University. Dr. McClain holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Howard University. Her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics, especially public policy and urban crime. Her most recent articles have appeared in the Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, and American Politics Quarterly. Her most recent book is "Can We All Get Along?": Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, (with Joseph Stewart, Jr.; Westview Press, 2005 [The 5th edition will be published in mid-2009]). Dr. McClain is a past vice president of the American Political Science Association, a past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, and a past president of the Southern Political Science Association. She served as Program Co-Chair for the 1993 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Program Chair for the 1999 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, and Program Co-Chair of the 2003 International Political Science Association World Congress held in Durban, South Africa. She also served on the Advisory Committee of the Directorate of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. She is Chair of the Academic Council at Duke University.

Joan Middendorf is Associate Director of Campus Instructional Consulting Center and Adjunct Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. She received her B.A. from Bellarmine University and her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. Her early publications concerned the adoption of innovations in teaching and faculty culture change. Along with David Pace, she developed the Decoding the Disciplines method for helping students learn disciplinary thinking (New Directions for Teching and Learning, 2004) and has co-directed the Freshman Learning faculty seminar for 10 years, facilitating over 90 professors in faculty learning communities. She has published numerous articles about college teaching and learning, and is a frequent guest speaker on focused assessment and easing entry into the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is co-principal investigator in the Indiana University History Learning Project, Assessment Specialist and Senior Researcher on the Just-in-Time Teaching Digital Library National Science Foundation grant, and Assessment Specialist on the Visual Methods Project at Indiana University.

Claudia Neuhauser is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Rochester. Dr. Neuhauser holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She is Director of the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester and responsible for the development of an innovative new undergraduate degree in the Health Sciences. She is the Director of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) on Non-Equilibrium Dynamics across Space and Time: A Common Approach for Engineers, Earth Scientists and Ecologists. This training grant brings together scholars of ecology, civil engineering, and the earth sciences to study the interplay between landscape changes and ecosystem processes across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and across interfaces, such as agroecoregion or urban boundaries, with an emphasis on non-equilibrium dynamics. An applied mathematician, Dr. Neuhauser’s research interests are in two areas of biology: ecology and population genetics. In ecology, she studies the role of space in community dynamics, and in population genetics, how selection affects genealogies. Dr. Neuhauser is the author of numerous articles and developed a textbook Calculus for Biology and Medicine (Prentice Hall 2004) from her teaching of an undergraduate calculus course for biology majors.

Kathy O'Byrne is Director of the Center for Community Learning at the University of California, Los Angeles. She graduated from Vassar College, earned her M.A. from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Dr. O’Byrne chairs the Faculty Advisory Committee for the undergraduate minor in Civic Engagement, and teaches several service learning courses. She provides ongoing training and professional development events; she also creates and maintains community partnerships for service learning courses, internships and community based research. Dr. O'Byrne administers a variety of AmeriCorps programs and specialized programs for other undergraduate minors. Her recent publications include a co-authored chapter on engaged departments. She also served as co-editor of a recent special issue of Metropolitan Universities on "Civic Engagement and Research Universities." In 2004, California Campus Compact presented her with the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education.

Bobbi Owen is Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Owen received her B.S. and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin and joined the faculty at Chapel Hill in 1974. She has held a variety of administrative positions including Director of the Honors Program, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Dramatic Art and Head of the Graduate Costume Design Program. In her position as Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences she oversees a range of academic programs, scholarships, and services for undergraduate students that are central to implementing the new general education requirements that are part of the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan. Professor Owen is an expert theatrical designer, responsible for costume design for dozens of regional productions including several every year for PlayMakers Repertory Company. She has written hundreds of articles and six books about theatrical designers, including The Designs of Willa Kim, [United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) 2005], and most recently the exhibition catalog for the United States entry in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, Design USA (USITT, 2007). Professor Owen is vice president for communications for the USITT and chair of its publication committee. She is also a member of the publications committee of the International Organization of Scenographers, Technicians, and Architects of the Theatre. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses, honors classes, and first year seminars. She serves on the Executive Board of the Reinvention Center.

David Pace is Professor of Modern French Intellectual and Cultural History in the History Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Pace received B.A. and M.A. from Rice University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. The author of Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Bearer of Ashes (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983) and articles on French intellectual history, Dr. Pace has turned to the scholarship of teaching and learning, where he has authored or co-authored articles in The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Arts and Humanities, National Teaching and Learning Forum, History Teacher, College Teaching, American Historical Association Perspectives, and To Improve the Academy as well as several edited volumes. He has lectured and presented workshops on teaching at universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Hong Kong, and is the co-author (with Joan Middendorf) of Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking (Jossey-Bass, 2004) and of Studying for History (with Sharon Pugh; Longman, 1995). Dr. Pace was one of the founders of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History and has served as the co-founder and co-director of the Indiana University Freshman Learning Project since 1996. He is the 2005 winner of the American Historical Society’s Asher Distinguished Teaching Award, a fellow in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and is a recipient of the P.A. Mack Award and the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award in Recognition of Distinguished Teaching.

Rebecca Pearlman is a Lecturer in Department of Biology, Krieger School of Arts and Science at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Pearlman earned a B.S. in Biology and Judaic Studies from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Wisconsin. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Pearlman served as the Administrative Director of the Bio-Link North Central Regional Center for Biotechnology Education, and was a faculty member in a two-year Biotechnology Laboratory Technician Program at the Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin. In her current position, Dr. Pearlman teachers General Biology lecture and laboratory courses to over 300 students each semester.

Michael Reese is Assistant Director of the Center for Educational Resources (CER) at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Reese holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a M.Ed. in Educational Technology from the University of Virginia. He is currently a doctoral student in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University conducting research on diffusion of innovations in education systems. In his current position, Mr. Reese acts as a project manager overseeing projects in which the CER partners with faculty to explore innovative uses of technology in support of teaching. One project, Timeline Creator (http://timeline.cer.jhu.edu – see Tool Compendium under Teaching Resources tab), won first place in Macromedia’s Innovation Award for Higher Education. He also manages special software projects and grant-funded pedagogical initiatives in the humanities, sciences, and engineering. Mr. Reese has presented on creative applications of educational technology at conferences sponsored by Educause, New Media Consortium, and other international organizations. Before joining Johns Hopkins University, he worked as an instructional designer at Caliber Learning and Booz-Allen and Hamilton. He also consulted with the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing to launch its distance education program.

Steven Rolston is Professor and Associate Chair of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Rolston received his B.S. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University. Following post-docs at the University of Washington and Harvard, he joined the staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Rolston’s research interests include laser cooling and trapping, Bose Einstein condensation, optical lattices, quantum computing and communication, and ultracold plasmas and Rydberg gases. Dr. Rolston is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, a member of the American Physical Society Council and serves on the editorial board for Physical Review A. He has been a visiting lecturer in Austria, Mexico and Italy. Dr. Rolston’s involvement in teacher training for elementary school science includes organizing a Teacher’s Day for high school physics teachers at an APS divisional meeting. The author of more than 100 refereed articles, Dr. Rolston has also developed graduate physics courses and undergraduate physics courses for both physics majors and non-science majors.

Robert J. Thompson Jr. is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He holds a B.A. from LaSalle College and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Dakota. Dr. Thompson also holds appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University. Before joining the faculty at Duke, he held positions at Georgetown University Medical Center and Catholic University of America. His research interests address how biological and psychosocial processes act together in development. He has authored over 100 scientific publications, including the book Adaptation to Chronic Childhood Illness (with Kathryn Gustafson; American Psychology Association, 1996). Dr. Thompson served as President of the Association of Medical School Professors of Psychology and received the Association’s Distinguished Researcher Award in 1993. He also received the Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Pediatric Psychology in 1997. Dr. Thompson has been on the editorial board for several scientific journals, and served as associate editor for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. He previously served as Dean of Arts & Sciences and Trinity College, and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University.

Sharon V. Salinger is Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education and Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She received a B.A. and a Ph.D. from UCLA. Dr. Salinger came to Irvine from the University of California, Riverside, where she held a number of administrative positions, including: Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Interim Director of the Center for Ideas and Society; and Chair of the Department of History. At UC Riverside she received the campus’ distinguished teaching award. Dr. Salinger’s research and teaching specialties focus on early American cultural and social history. In addition to an edited volume and numerous articles, she has authored two books, To Serve Well and Faithfully (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Currently, she is working with Cornelia Dayton on a book-length study of warning out in eighteenth-century Boston, a colonial legal practice designed to identify non residents of New England towns.

Matthew S. Santirocco is Professor of Classics, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies at New York University. Dr. Santirocco earned his B.A. from Cambridge and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia. Professor Santirocco has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia, Emory, and Brown Universities. His research and teaching includes Latin literature, Greek poetry, mythology, and the classical tradition. His major works include Unity and Design in Horace’s Odes (University of North Carolina Press, 1986) and Latinitas: The Tradition and Teaching of Latin (Texas Tech University Press, 1987). He is currently working on a book about the poetics of patronage in Augustan Rome. At Penn he developed humanities curricula in the MBA and Executive Education Programs of the Wharton School. At NYU he helped to design a new core curriculum, the Morse Academic Plan, and led faculty in the creation of an undergraduate research initiative, Collegiate Seminars, and a variety of interdisciplinary and interschool programs. NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, which he founded and directs, promotes the development of interdisciplinary courses, annual conferences and colloquia, and summer outreach seminars for faculty. Dr. Santirocco has directed two NEH Seminars for school teachers and participated in a year-long NEH Masterworks grant. He has served as Vice President for Professional Matters and is currently Senior Financial Trustee of the American Philological Association. He was also the editor of the Association's monograph series, American Classical Studies, and is currently the editor of the journal, Classical World. Dr. Santirocco serves on the Reinvention Center Executive Board.

Michael Schudson is Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and Professor of Communication in the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. Professor Schudson received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology. He is the author of seven books and editor of two others, including the highly acclaimed The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (Free Press, 1998) and most recently, Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press (Polity Press). Dr. Schudson’s works are all concerned with the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, and cultural memory. He was co-director of the UCSD Civic Collaborative, a project designed to link UCSD faculty and students to the broader San Diego community through their research and teaching. He is active in the affairs of Thurgood Marshall College, one of UCSD's six undergraduate colleges; he chaired the committee that designed its general education course, "Diversity, Justice, and Imagination," and has frequently taught in the "Justice" segment of that course. From 2001-2003 he served as acting provost of the College. He is the recipient of a number of honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award. He co-chaired the University of California Commission on the Future of General Education in the Research University 2004-2007.

Donna E. Shalala is President of the University of Miami. Dr. Shalala received her A.B. degree in history from Western College for Women and her Ph.D. from The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. One of the country’s first Peace Corp volunteers, she served in Iran. A leading scholar on the political economy of state and local governments, she has also held tenured professorships at Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She served as President of Hunter College of CUNY from 1980 to 1987 and as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993. Before coming to UM in 2001, Dr. Shalala was a member of the Clinton administration, serving for eight years as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). At the end of her tenure as HHS Secretary, The Washington Post described her as “one of the most successful government managers of modern times.” Recently, Dr. Shalala was selected by President George W. Bush to co-chair with Senator Bob Dole the Commission on Care for Returning Wounded Warriors. President Shalala has more than three dozen honorary degrees and a host of other honors, including the 1992 National Public Service Award, and the 1994 Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year Award. She has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Academy of Education, the National Academy of Public Administration, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In June 2008, Dr. Shalala received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.

Leah Shopkow is Associate Professor, History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Shopkow received her B.A. from the University of Rochester, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. She taught at The Texas State University--San Marcos before joining the faculty at Indiana in 1988. She has served as the History Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies and was most recently the Director of the Honors Program; she also served as the Associate Editor of the American Historical Review for two years. Her disciplinary scholarship concerns medieval historiography. Dr. Shopkow has published a monograph, History and Community: Norman Historical Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Catholic University of America Press, 1997), and a translation of Lambert of Ardres's, History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) in addition to editing a collection of essays and publishing other articles. She is currently working on an edition and translation of the Chronicle of Andres by William of Andres, an early thirteenth-century chronicle-cartulary. Her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research began with a course portfolio, but has expanded into publication, with recent articles in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (with Vicky Gunn) and "The History Learning Project: A Department Decodes its Students," with the other members of the History Learning Project. As well as being a founding member and principle investigator of the History Learning Project, she is a past fellow of the Freshman Learning Project.

Sarah L. Simmons is Director of the Office for Honors, Research, and International Studies in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Simmons received her B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Angelo State University while conducting undergraduate research with both Dr. Bonnie Amos and Dr. Candace Haigler. She received her Ph.D. from UT-Austin, under the supervision of Dr. Beryl Simpson and Dr. Bob Jansen, and transitioned directly from the lab into academic administration. Originally trained as a plant molecular systematist, Dr. Simmons has received numerous federal grants in her efforts to strengthen the undergraduate science curriculum and promote science careers to women and other groups under-represented in the sciences. For over ten years she has been dedicated to improving the profile, accessibility and quality of undergraduate research experiences at large research institutions.

Michael Starbird is University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. from Pomona College and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Starbird wrote, with co-author Edward B. Burger, the award-winning mathematics textbook for liberal arts students The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking (Key College Publishing, 2005) and Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas (W.W. Norton, 2005). He uses the Teaching Company video courses in the Great Courses Series on calculus, statistics, and probability annually reaching thousands of people in the general public. He has served as a Member-At-Large of the Council of the American Mathematical Society and is on the national education committees of both the AMS and MAA. He is a member of University of Texas’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and has received more than a dozen teaching awards including several that are awarded to only one professor at UT annually, including the Mathematical Association of America’s 2007 National Teaching Award.

Glenn Starkman is Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, and Director of the newly created Institute for the Science of Origins at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Starkman grew up in Toronto, Canada where he received a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Toronto. After receiving a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford, he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, then a research associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and a Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He joined the faculty of CWRU in 1995. His research is in theoretical particle-astrophysics and cosmology. He is an author of numerous articles in major research journals, and two recent Scientific American articles on the shape of space and the fate of life in our universe. He co-authored a handbook on hands-on techniques for teaching cosmology, and is under contract for a freshman cosmology text. He received the National Science Foundation's Early Career Development Award for junior faculty who combine promise in research and teaching. Dr. Starkman led a major strategic re-imagination of and reinvestment in undergraduate education at CWRU, designed to tie education to active experiences inside and outside the classroom. He serves on the Reinvention Center Executive Board.

Keith J. Stevenson is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Stevenson received his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and then joined ATI Technologies, Inc. as an analytical chemist focusing on method development in the environmental testing of soil and water. In 1992, he left industry to pursue a Ph.D. in physical/analytical chemistry at the University of Utah. Working under the direction of Professor Henry S. White, his graduate work focused on the development of electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (E-STM) and associated techniques for studying adsorption phenomena at solid/liquid interfaces. His postdoctoral research activities at Northwestern University with Professor Joseph T. Hupp included the study of mesoporous materials, the development of integrated scanning probe and optical imaging techniques, and the improvement of optical-based chemical sensors. At The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Stevenson’s research concentrates on the creation of advanced functional electrode materials, as well as on new microscopic tools for their characterization. From a more applied standpoint, this information is useful for the design and optimization of superior chemical technologies associated with the areas of chemical sensing, energy storage/conversion, separations, photonics, and device miniaturization. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award (2002), the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools New Scholar Award (2004), and the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Young Investigator Award (2006). Dr. Stevenson is also a member of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology and the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

Randall G. Styers is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Styers holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Culture from Duke University, a M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. in English from Duke University. In his current position, Dr. Styers teaches and does research in the areas of Modern Western religious thought, contemporary critical thought, religion and magic, religion and law, as well as gender theory. Before joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he worked as an instructor at Duke University’s Department of Religion. He also served as the Acting Academic Dean of the Union Theological Seminary. He received several awards, scholarships and honors, from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, Spray-Randleigh Research Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, Honorary Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Dawn Geronimo Terkla is an Associate Provost at Tufts University. As Associate Provost, Dr. Terkla oversees the management of the Office of Institutional Research & Evaluation (OIR&E); provides guidance on issues relating to institutional research, outcomes assessment, and evaluation; and critical management information to senior administrators. In addition, Dr. Terkla is the University Accreditation Liaison Officer. Her research interests include college-choice decisions, retention, management information, assessment and evaluation. She has held several leadership positions: President of both the North East Association for Institutional Research and the Association for Institutional Research, and Chair of the NPEC Executive Committee. In addition, she has served on the HEDS Board of Directors, the UCLA/ACE Cooperative Institutional Research Program Advisory Committee, NAICU Commission on Policy Analysis, and several NPEC technical review panels. Dr. Terkla earned her doctorate at Harvard University, an MPP from the University of California Berkeley, and a Bachelors degree from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Christopher Thaiss is Clark Kerr Presidential Chair, Professor and Director of the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis. Until 2006, Dr. Thaiss was Professor of English at George Mason University, where he directed the composition and writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs and served as chair of the English Department. Dr. Thaiss coordinates the International Network of WAC Programs (INWAC). He frequently consults on writing and conducts workshops on teaching and program development for schools and colleges. Recent books include Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life (with Terry Myers Zawacki; Boynton/Cook, 2006) and WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs (with Susan McLeod, Eric Miraglia, and Margot Soven; National Council of Teachers of English, 2001). Dr. Thaiss’ current projects include working with a team of international scholars to "map" writing in the disciplines worldwide. In 2005, he received the University's David King Award for career contributions to teaching excellence.

Stephanie L. Topping is Assistant Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation at Tufts University. Stephanie received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tufts University in May of 2001 and her M.S. in Civil Engineering from Tufts University in May of 2003. Before joining the staff at Tufts, Stephanie worked as a Senior Consultant at Navigant Consulting, Inc., a specialized independent consulting firm providing construction litigation consulting services to government agencies and legal counsel. Ms. Topping joined the Office of Institutional Research & Evaluation in September of 2006. She provides support for ABET accreditation at the School of Engineering as well as for the university’s accreditation with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Among her research responsibilities, Ms. Topping serves on several school-based committees including the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Outcomes Assessment Committee, Engineering Education Objectives and Outcomes Assessment Committee, and the Undergraduate Retention Task Force for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. Recently, she completed a five year evaluation of the Summer Scholars Program which provides to students undergraduate research apprenticeship opportunities with faculty/clinical mentors from Tufts schools and affiliated hospitals.

David Vanden Bout is Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. Vanden Bout received his B.S. in chemistry from Duke University while doing undergraduate research with Professor Richard MacPhail. He earned his Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Mark Berg. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Dr. Vanden Bout worked as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Paul Barbara's laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Vanden Bout's research interests include microscopy/spectroscopy experiments on heterogeneous materials. In particular, he is interested in understanding how morphology affects the electronic and optical properties of semi-conducting polymer. Dr. Vanden Bout's other research interests include metal nanostructure synthesis and single molecule spectroscopy.

David Ward served as President of the American Council of Education (ACE) from 2001 until May 1 2208. Dr. Ward received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Leeds and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Under Dr. Ward's leadership, ACE developed a strategic plan that has strengthened the Council's role as the major coordinating agent for higher education. As president of ACE, he was deeply engaged in the development of the responses of higher education to initiatives of the Secretary of Education as well as congressional actions, including the reauthorization of the HE Act. He is a member of the Council of the United Nations University. The Irish Universities Quality Board and served on the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, convened by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. As Provost and then Chancellor of UW-Madison, Dr. Ward led the development and implementation of a strategic plan that improved the quality of undergraduate education there; added to campus research facilities; enhanced the connections among the university, the city, the business community and the state; and creatively combined public and private support for the institution. An urban geographer, Dr. Ward’s research focuses on nineteenth century English and American cities and industrialization. Among his many publications are Cities and Immigrants: A Geography of Change in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford University Press, 1971) and A Landscape of Modernity: Essays on New York City, 1900-1940 (with Olivier Zunz; Oxford, 1992). He has held visiting appointments at University College London; The Australian National University, Canberra; Hebrew University, Jerusalem; and at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Leeds. Dr. Ward served as president of the Association of American Geographers in 1989 and was elected to the America Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

Joan Weibel-Orlando is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at Western Connecticut State College and her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Weibel-Orlando taught lower and upper division courses in the Anthropology department that focused on film, Native North Americans and field methods. She has received honors from the L.A. County Natural History Museum Foundation, Times Mirror Hall of Native American Cultures, Zumberge Research Innovation Fund Fellowship, USC Faculty Research Grants, and a Mellon Minority Fellowship Mentor Stipend. Among Dr. Weibel-Orlando’s many publications is Indian Country, L.A.: Ethnic Community Maintenance in Complex Society (University of Illinois Press, 1991). She is involved with numerous professional organizations including the American Anthropological Association, the American Ethnological Association, the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, the Association for European Anthropology, the National Association for Practicing Anthropologists, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Society for Medial Anthropology, the Society for Urban Anthropology, the Society for Visual Anthropology, and the Southern California Applied Anthropology Network.

Patricia Willer is Assistant Vice Provost for International Programs at the University of South Carolina. Ms. Willer received her M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas. She has worked extensively in international education, including the areas of Study Abroad and International Student Services, for 25 years. Her current work involves the development of partnerships and collaborative initiatives with universities in other countries, as well as design and development of study abroad programs. A focus of her career, including program design, professional presentations and publications, has been the meaningful integration of international and American students.

Lynn E. Williford is Assistant Provost for Institutional Research and Assessment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Master of Education degrees from North Carolina University. She also received her PhD in Educational Psychology from UNC at Chapel Hill. Dr. Williford’s current responsibilities as head of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment include data analysis and policy research activities supporting strategic planning for the University. The office also provides assessment support for all academic and administrative departments within the University.

Barbara A. Yona is Director, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Adjunct Faculty in the School of Education, Higher Education Program and Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation Program at Syracuse University. Dr. Yonai earned her Ph.D. in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation at Syracuse University. As the director of Syracuse University’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA), Dr. Yonai has implemented projects related to attrition and retention (including the reporting of the University-wide and school and college yearly statistics and student retention research studies). She is also responsible for program evaluations, assessment related to courses and curriculum, University-wide assessment initiatives, accreditation, evaluation of sponsored research, and a wide variety of institutional research studies (including national as well as internal research studies). She oversees reporting to the NCAA, federal and state governments, and the various accrediting agencies that review SU programs. Her expertise includes developing evaluation plans; designing instruments; conducting interviews and focus groups; and analyzing, interpreting, and reporting both qualitative and quantitative data. Dr. Yonai has written articles and made presentations on topics such as assessment of student learning, program evaluation, accreditation, assessment of learning communities, grant development, retention research, survey research, and tests and measurement. She serves on a number of university committees such as the Academic Coordinating Committee, the Middle States Steering Committee, the University Assessment Committee, and chairs the Assessment Council for Preparing School Professionals. In 2004, she received the Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the University’s Academic Programs.