Workshop Participant Biographies




Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, Fellow of Lincoln College, and the author of more than thirty books for students and a general audience. He has held visiting professorships in Israel, France, Japan, China, and New Zealand. He believes that visualization is crucial in developing chemical insight, and implements these ideas in his books, for which he also creates the art. Professor Atkins serves on the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Committee on Physical Chemistry and Committee on Teaching Chemistry.

Eric Baumgartner

Eric Baumgartner is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Visualization and Modeling theme team. His dissertation research, conducted while part of the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University, focuses on creating learning environments to support student engagement in scientific inquiry within engineering design contexts. Prior to graduate school, Eric worked as a senior programmer at the Interactive Media Lab at Dartmouth Medical School, contributing to the design and development of educational software for undergraduate, medical student, and patient education. His current research interests focus on scaffolding the use of modeling and data visualization tools for science learning, and developing flexible frameworks that support the rapid design and reuse of educational software.

Web site:
      http://cilt.berkeley.edu/people/ebaum/

Orville L. Chapman

Orville Chapman is a Professor of Chemistry and associate dean of Education Innovation at the University of California,
Los Angeles

Relevant links:
      http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr_info/index.asp

      http://www.molsci.ucla.edu/

      http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Organic/chapman.html

Brian P. Coppola

Brian Coppola is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at The University of Michigan, and a
Faculty Associate at the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. He received his
B.S. degree in 1978 from the University of New Hampshire and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984, having joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1982.
Moving to Ann Arbor in 1986, Dr. Coppola joined an active group of faculty in the design and implementation of a
revised undergraduate chemistry curriculum. His recent publications range from mechanistic organic chemistry
research in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions to educational philosophy, practice and assessment.

In 1996, he was awarded a United States Department of Energy, Undergraduate Computational Science Education
Award. In 1998, Dr. Coppola was selected as part of the first group of Carnegie Scholars affiliated with The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's
CASTL program (Carnegie Academy on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). Also in 1998, Dr. Coppola joined
Elaine Coleman, Robert Kozma, and Patricia Schank, all researchers at SRI International, on the development of
ChemSense, a visualization and communication tool to promote representational competence and
epistemological thinking in chemistry learners.

Web page:
      http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/coppola

Peter Garik

Peter Garik has a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics. For ten years he did research in condensed matter physics on topics ranging from the optical properties of metals, to the growth of diffusion-limited aggregates, and to selection principles for pattern formation during solidification and viscous fingering. For the past ten years he has been working in science education on research and projects. He has worked extensively on bringing coupled experiments and computer models to high schools, and helped design an interactive museum exhibit dependent on computer technology. Currently he is finishing a project called Quantum Science Across Disciplines (QSAD). This project has produced a set of Quantum Explorers intended to assist high school and college students in learning about how atoms combine to form molecules. The project has produced papers presented at meetings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching and the American Education Research Association (see http://qsad.bu.edu).

Quantum Sciences across Disciplines:

http://qsad.bu.edu

John I. Gelder

John Gelder is Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. He teaches in the introductory chemistry program at OSU.

John's research interests have focused on the development of computer based materials for use in the classroom. He has developed animations and simulations appropriate for high school and introductory chemistry courses. In 1989 he taught an AP Chemistry course via satellite to rural high school students around the country. As part of this NSF-supported project he developed a collection of computer graphics/animations depicting atomic and molecular models. These materials have recently been release on a CD titled Animations for Introductory Chemistry 2.0 CD-ROM, with Nancy Gettys, Judd Wheeler and Helen Brooks. Copyright, 1998, Published by Synaps.


His web site address is;
      http://intro.chem.okstate.edu

Bob Gotwals

Bob Gotwals' bio may be found at:
      http://www.shodor.org/foundation/employees/gotwals.html

Web page:
      http://storm.shodor.org/~gotwals/

Eric Jakobsson

Eric Jakobsson, Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Head, Bioengineering Program,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

My area of competence is biomolecules. I am interested in ways to visualize biomolecular structures that will help
students understand the relationship between function and structure and how function is preserved and modulated
during evolution.

Web site for our educational work:
      http://glycine.ncsa.uiuc.edu/educwb

Andrew E. Johnson

Andrew E. Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. His current research focus is on teleimmersive virtual environments- in particular, their
application in education. He received a BS in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and an MS and a
PhD in computer science from Wayne State University.

web page:
      http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/

recent article:
      http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/papers/johnsonVR01c.pdf

Loretta Jones

Loretta Jones is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research area is chemical
education. Her research focuses on the optimization of learning environments for chemistry, primarily on active involvement
of students in their learning and on visual representations of complex phenomena. She has been involved in improving
the education of mathematics and science teachers and in the development of multimedia instructional materials for chemistry.

Web page:
      http://www.unco.edu/chemist/Jones/loretta.htm

Kenneth D. Jordan

Kenneth Jordan is a Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Center for Molecular and Materials Simulations at the
University of Pittsburgh. Professor Jordan's research focus is on the use of computer simulation methods for modeling
chemical processes. Methods used include electronic structure theory and Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations.
He is actively involved in introducing computational methods into undergraduate and graduate education. (See
http://www.pitt.edu/~jordan/java/h2o.html for some interactive Java displays of water clusters.)

Jordan group web page:
      www.pitt.edu/~jordan

CMMS web page:
      www.pitt.edu/~cmms

Thomas (Thom) Jose

Thom Jose is a graduate student at Texas A&M University in the Chemical Education Program. He will be assisting
Dr. Vickie Williamson in evaluating the impact of this workshop and the Science Education and Visualization meeting
(GRC) in early August. His research interests include how meetings such as these and collaborative efforts influence
the behavior of participants.

Resa Kelly

Resa Kelly is a graduate student in chemical education at the Univ. of Northern Colorado.

Bruce Koel

Koel is Chair of the Chemistry Department at the University of Southern California with a research program in physical and surface chemistry and surface science. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Molecular Robotics.

On his web site: One of our goals is to expand our capability to "see" molecules on surfaces and to study how bonds are made and broken in surface reactions. To this end, our laboratory has excellent facilities for many of the important surface analysis techniques that are used to study chemical processes at surfaces, with particular emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy.

Robert B. Kozma

Bob Kozma is a Principal Scientist in the Center for Technology in Learning At SRI International. His expertise is in the evaluation of large-scale technology-based science education projects, cognitive research on representation in science, design of advanced interactive multimedia and multi-user systems in science, media research and theory.

Web page for the ChemSense project:
      http://chemsense.org/

Personal web page:
      http://www.sri.com/policy/ctl/html/kozma.html

Nathan S. Lewis

Nathan Lewis is Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology

He is involved in research in nanotechnology and chemistry at surfaces. He is also involved in the Caltech animation project.
For information on this project see:
      http://bond.caltech.edu

For an overview of Professor Lewis' research interest see:
      http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmrc/nsl/home.htm

Jeffry D. Madura

Jeffry Madura is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Chemistry Department of Duquesne University. He is a
recipient of the 1997 Henry Dreyfus Teacher/Scholar award. Dr. Madura has served as vice-chair (1996) and chair
(1998) of the Computational Chemistry Gordon Research Conference. He was a co-organizer for a 1999 Centre
Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM) Workshop titled "Molecular Modeling of Proteins at Interfaces"
and in 1998 organized an American Chemical Society National Meeting Symposium titled "Computational Chemistry
and the Classroom".

Professor Madura's research interests are in the development and application of advanced quantum mechanical
and statistical mechanics techniques to study the structure, function, and dynamics of proteins and enzymes in
solution and at interfaces.

Web pages:
      http://www.science.duq.edu/snes/chemistry/faculty/madura.html

and
      http://alpha1.chemistry.duq.edu/

Peter Mahaffy

Peter Mahaffy, Professor of Chemistry, The King's University College

Web page:
      http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/%7Echem/people/mahaffy/mahaffy.shtm

Harold Modell

Harold Modell is the Director, National Resource for Computers in Life Science Education and is member of Physiology Educational Research Consortium at the University of Washington.

Web page:
      http://www.hs.washington.edu/perc

Neil S. Ostlund

Neil Ostlund is the founder, President, and CEO of Hypercube, Inc. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Chemistry at the University of Toronto and the University of Florida. Hypercube markets a the Hyperchem computational chemistry package which is extensively used in educational settings.

Barry Rowe

Barry Rowe is a High School Chemistry and Physics teacher at Champaign Centennial High School, Champaign, IL.
He is also a member of the NCSA ChemViz group.

Web page:
      http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/~roweba

Nora Sabelli

Nora Sabelli is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the
University of Texas at Austin (on leave from NSF).

Alan Shusterman

Alan J. Shusterman was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1955. He attended Caltech (B.S. '76), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. '81). before joining the faculty of Reed College in 1989, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. He has been a visiting scientist for Wavefunction, Inc., and a consultant for several textbook publishers. His principal activities include research on chemical reaction mechanisms, and the development of development of computer modeling tools for teaching. The latter work has been supported by two NSF-ILI grants and a grant from the Keck Foundation, and has resulted in several books and articles.

Gwen Shusterman

Glen Shusterman is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at Portland State University.

Relevant publication:
G.P. Shusterman, A.J. Shusterman "Teaching Chemistry with ElectronDensity Models" Journal of Chemical Education, 1997, 74, 771-776.

Here is a link to an electron density tutorial:
      http://www.irn.pdx.edu/~shusteg

Neil Stillings

Neil Stillings, Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Hampshire College

Web page:
      http://helios.hampshire.edu/~nasCCS/"

Robert Tinker

Robert Tinker earned his PhD in experimental low temperature physics from MIT and has taught college physics for ten years. For thirty years, he has pioneered innovative approaches to education that exploit the power of technology. He developed the idea of using probes, such as the ultrasonic motion detector, for student learning based on real- time measurements. He was the first to use electronic networking to permit students to collaborate on dispersed environment investigations. The initial result of this work was the NGS Kids Network, the first curriculum making extensive use of student collaboration and data-sharing. This early success led to the Global Lab and GLOBE projects as well as the development of LabNet, an early use of networking to support teacher professional development. He has also pioneered studies of online courses for students, teachers, and university faculty. Six years ago he started the non-profit Concord Consortium so he could concentrate on applications of technology in education. Current research includes work on educational applications of portable computers, large-scale tests of online courses for teachers and secondary students, sophisticated simulations, and the development of technology-rich materials for sustainable development education. The best-known of these projects is the Virtual High School, which currently offers over 180 courses to high school students throughout the country.

Molecular Workbench web page:
      http://www.concord.org/%7Ebarbara/workbenchcc/workbench_index.html

Barbara Tversky

Barbara Tversky is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research interestes include: memory, spatial language
and cognition, including comprehension and production of graphics, and human computer interaction.

David Uttal

David Uttal is a cognitive scientist in the Department of Psychology At Northwestern University.

Web page:
      http://www.psych.nwu.edu/~duttal/

Bill Vining

Bill Vining is an Associate Professor of Chemical Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
His group's work centers around creating simulation activities and software tutorials for discovering chemical concepts
and improving problem solving.

Bio:
      http://soulcatcher.chem.umass.edu/~vining/viningcv11-2000.htm

Group web page:
      http://soulcatcher.chem.umass.edu/

Representative General Chemistry Simulations (Shockwave versions):
      http://soulcatcher.chem.umass.edu/chemland/chemlandsw.html

Mary Pat Wenderoth

Mary Pat Wenderoth is a Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Zoology and member of Physiology Educational
Research Consortium at the University of Washington.

John Wintersteen

John Wintersteen is the Product Manager for Molecular Simulation's experimental chemistry products and is responsible
for their development, marketing and sales. MSI's experimental chemistry products include MedChem Explorer,
a client-server application that facilitates pharmaceutical decision support and informatics, and MSI's Viewer
products for 3D molecular visualization and communication. Prior to joining MSI in October 1997, Mr. Wintersteen
gained more than 10 years of business development, sales, and software marketing experience while working an
Internet application software company, and several start up ventures.

Vickie Williamson

Vickie Williamson, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M, and Conference Evaluator. Vickie's doctorate research dealt with the use of molecular visualizations.

Qian Xie

Qian Xie is a Programmer at the Concord Consortium. He has a Ph.D. in materials physics, and postdoctoral experience in materials and biophysical simulations. He joined the Concord Consortium in March, 2000. Dr Xie is a major author of more than 10 research papers.



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