Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity
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Staff
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 E. Chubin became founding Director in 2004 of the Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (www.aaascapacity.org). Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President for Research, Policy & Programs at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering after nearly 15 years in federal service. Posts included Senior Policy Officer for the National Science Board; Division Director for Research, Evaluation and Communication at the National Science Foundation; and Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences (and Education) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He began his federal career in 1986 at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment (Science, Education, and Transportation Program, until 1993). He has also served on the faculty of four universities, 1972-86, achieving the rank of Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Chubin is the author of eight books and numerous policy reports and articles on science policy, education policy and evaluation, and careers and workforce development in science and engineering. He is a AAAS Fellow, a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science, a 2006 QEM Giant of Science, a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2007-2009, recipient of the Washington Academy of Sciences’ 2008 Social and Behavioral Sciences Award, an alumnus or member of three nonprofit boards, an editorial advisor for three journals, a long-time consultant to corporate and philanthropic foundations, a member of various committees of The National Academies, and has been an adjunct professor in the Cornell in Washington Program since 1991.
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.
Roosevelt Y. Johnson
Fellow, Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: 202-326-6780
Fax: 202-371-9849
E-mail: rjohnson@aaas.org
Roosevelt Johnson is serving as a Fellow of the AAAS Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity (Capacity Center) and as an Executive on Loan from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Johnson’s appointment is initially for one year with the possibility of additional years, pending NSF and AAAS approval.
Prior to his AAAS appointment, Dr. Johnson served as Program Director for the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. The AGEP program is part of the portfolio of programs in the Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Division's programs aim to increase the participation and advancement of underrepresented minorities and minority-serving institutions, women and girls, and persons with disabilities at every level of the science and engineering enterprise. The AGEP program supports alliances of doctoral institutions (20 alliances; 100+ doctoral institutions), which work collaboratively to increase the number of minorities receiving doctoral degrees and progressing into leadership roles in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
In addition to managing numerous cross-directorate programs during his 20-year career at NSF, Dr. Johnson has represented NSF with distinction on Government-wide committees and working groups, including representing the NSF (and the Government) as one of its representatives at NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship meetings in Brussels, Belgium.
Dr. Johnson received his baccalaureate degree in Zoology from Howard University (Washington, D.C.), and earned his doctorate in Microbiology from Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). As a NIH Fellow, Dr. Johnson engaged in postdoctoral research at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Dr. Johnson has served on the faculties of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), The University of Washington (Visiting Scholar), Howard Community College (Columbia, MD), Howard University College of Medicine (Washington, DC), and Howard University College of Liberal Arts (Washington, DC). He has also served as the Deputy Director and Interim Executive Director for the GEM Consortium (South Bend, IN).
Dr. Johnson has been presented with the Frank Abbott Award for Distinguished Service from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB; 2008), a Legacy Award from the Benjamin Banneker Institute for Science and Technology (2006) and Science Spectrum Magazine’s prestigious Emerald Honors Award (2005) in recognition of a 30-year career of effectively championing efforts to broaden participation in STEM disciplines.
