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 Daryl E. Chubin
Director, Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: 202-326-6785
Fax: 202-371-9849
E-mail: dchubin@aaas.org
Daryl
Chubin became Director of the new AAAS &
Engineering Capacity, at the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, in August 2004. Prior to that, he served 3+ years as Senior
Vice President, Research, Policy & Programs, at the National Action
Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Inc., in White Plains, New
York, after nearly 15 years in federal service. Posts included three years
(1998-2001) as Senior Policy Officer for the National Science Board at
the National Science Foundation (NSF); Division Director for Research,
Evaluation and Communication in NSF’s Directorate for Education and
Human Resources (1993-98); and (on detail) Assistant Director for Social
and Behavioral Sciences (and Education) at the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy (1997). He began his federal career in 1986 at the
congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Dr. Chubin earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Loyola University (Chicago)
in 1973. He has served on the faculty of four universities, including
Georgia Tech, where he was promoted to full professor. He has published
eight books and numerous policy reports, articles, and commentaries on
issues in science policy, human resource development, program evaluation,
and engineering education.
Among Chubin’s honors are: AAAS Fellow, Past Chair of the AAAS section
on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering, Fellow of the Association
for Women in Science, member of the National Academy of Engineering Committee
on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, Integrator for BEST (Building
Engineering and Science Talent), and co-recipient of the American Society
of Engineering Education Wickenden Award for best paper published in the
2003 volume of The Journal of Engineering Education.
 Shirley M. Malcom
Director, Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: 202-326-6680
E-mail: smalcom@aaas.org
Web: ehrweb.aaas.org
Shirley
Malcom is Head of Education and Human Resources Programs of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The directorate includes
AAAS programs in education, activities for underrepresented groups, and
public understanding of science and technology. Dr. Malcom was head of
the AAAS Office of Opportunities in Science from 1979 to 1989. Between
1977 and 1979, she served as program officer in the Science Education
Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to this, she
held the rank of assistant professor of biology, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington, and for two years was a high school science teacher.
Dr. Malcom received her doctorate in ecology from The Pennsylvania State
University; master's degree in zoology from the University of California,
Los Angeles; and bachelor's degree with distinction in zoology from the
University of Washington. In addition she holds thirteen honorary degrees.
Dr. Malcom serves on several boards, including the Howard Heinz Endowment.
She is an honorary trustee of the American Museum of Natural History,
a Regent of Morgan State University, and a trustee of Caltech. She has
chaired a number of national committees addressing education reform and
access to scientific and technical education, careers and literacy. Dr.
Malcom is a former trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and
a fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In
2003, she received the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of
Sciences, the highest award bestowed by the Academy.
Dr. Malcom was a member of the National Park System Advisory Board from
1999-2003. She served on the National Science Board, the policymaking
body of the National Science Foundation from 1994 to 1998, and from 1994-2001
served on the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.
 Sabira Mohamed
Research Associate, Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: 202-326-8974
E-mail: smohamed@aaas.org
Web:ehrweb.aaas.org
Sabira Mohamed is Research Associate for the Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She works with several senior staff on various programs and projects within the directorate including the AAAS Project on Science, Technology and Disability, Entry Point! and ACCESS programs that aid students with disabilities to gain experience in the workforce. She works with the Director of K-16 Mathematics and Science programs which provides support to districts, states, and universities. She has assisted with the analysis of a district’s curricular standards, facilitated communication for a summer institute workshop at the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering, and the DC ACTS Fellow Program that provides Masters of Professional Studies in Middle Grades Science for charter, public, and private schools. Her duties revolve around research, analysis, and dissemination.
Prior to that, she worked at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of the General Counsel working with grant proposals, compliance-related work, and other projects such as the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP). Her experience crosses both research and medical fields. She served as a program assistant at the National Research Council's (NRC) Board on Life Sciences and was responsible for workshop logistics that dealt with Toxicogenomics, the development of a Polio antiviral, and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). Ms. Mohamed has also worked at Inova Alexandria Hospital’s Radiology Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources.
Ms. Mohamed earned her bachelor's degree in biology from George Mason University in 2005. Her research interests center on the life sciences and medicine.
 Yolanda
Scott George
Deputy Director and Program Director, Human Resources Programs
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: 202-326-6677
E-mail: ygeorge@aaas.org
Web: ehrweb.aaas.org
Yolanda Scott George is Deputy Director and Program Director, Education
and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). Her duties and responsibilities include planning, development,
management, implementation, and evaluation of multi-year science, mathematics,
and technology (SMT) education and educational research projects. In addition
she provides technical assistance to community-based organizations, science-based
organizations, schools, colleges and universities, and churches interested
in developing science, mathematics and computer education initiatives.
She has served as Director of Development, Association of Science-Technology
Centers, Washington, DC; Director, Professional Development Program, University
of California, Berkeley, CA, a precollege academic enrichment, university
retention, and pre-graduate school program in SMT for minorities and women;
and as a research biologist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore,
CA involved in cell cycle studies using flow cytometer and cell sorters.
George conducts evaluations, project and program reviews, and evaluation
workshops for both the National Institutes of Health and National Science
Foundation, as well as reviews SMT proposals for private foundation and
public agencies, including the Sloan Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, the Ford Foundation and the European Commission. She develops
and coordinates conferences and workshops related to recruitment and retention
of minorities, women, and persons with disabilities in SMT. She works
with UNIFEM, UNESCO, and non-governmental organizations on gender, science,
and technology initiatives related to college and university recruitment
and retention and women leadership in SMT.
Over the last 25 years she has raised over $70 million for a variety
of SMT education initiatives for colleges and universities, associations,
and community-based groups. She currently serves as PI or Co-PI on six
grants related to developing evaluation capacity of PIs, project directors
and evaluators for the NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
(AGEP); development of a digital library for biology educators in undergraduate,
graduate and professional schools; and international gender, science,
and technology.
She serves on the board of the International Women in Science and Engineering
Network (INWES); American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), Education
Committee; Award Advisory Committee, Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award;;
National Science Education Digital Library (NSDL) Policy Committee: and
the South Dakota Biomedical Research Network Advisory Committee. George
has authored or co-authored over 50 papers, pamphlets, and hands-on science
manuals. She received her B.S. and M.S. from Xavier University of Louisiana
and Atlanta University in Georgia, respectively.
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