ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Commuter Institute on Biodiversity is a project of The American Museum of Natural History, New York City Public Schools, Pace University, the Purchase College Center for Science and Math Education, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Funding is provided by the Foundation for Microbiology, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, and the Purchase College Center for Science and Math Education.

The support of the following people has been instrumental in organizing this institute:

The American Museum of Natural History

Myles Gordon, Vice President of Education

Maritza Macdonald, Coordinator of Professional Development Partnerships

Kefyn Catley, Content Specialist, Department of Entomology

New York City Public Schools

Rudolph F. Crew, Chancellor

Margaret R. Harrington, Chief Executive of School Programs and Support Services

Carl Raab, Director of Academic Initiatives and Publications

Judy Goldberg, Executive Editor for Academic Initiatives and Publications Office

Pace University

Marilyn Jaffe-Ruiz, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, Dean of Dyson College

John Sharkey, Associate Dean of Dyson College

Cyrus Bacchi, Director, Haskins Laboratories and Professor of Biology

Robert Chapman, Director, Volunteers in Action Program

Dudley Cox, Chairperson of Biological Sciences

John Cronin, Hudson Riverkeeper

Thomas Gorrell, Assistant Professor and Research Associate

Charlene Hoegler, Professor of Biology

Michael Laverde, Assistant Professor of Biology

Michael Lemke, Assistant Professor of Biology (now at University of Illinois)

Michael Levandowsky, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Charles Masiello, Professor of Mathematics

Nigel Yarlett, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Research Associate

SUNY Purchase College Center for Science and Math Education

Peter Corfield, Project Director

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Mary Apodaca, Director of the Leadership Program for Teachers

Scott Boyarsky, Web Architect

Deborah Engel-Di Mauro, Assistant Director of the Leadership Program for Teachers

Tonka Irish, Assistant Director of the Leadership Program for Teachers

Dean McMillin, Research Assistant

Joseph Wiener, Woodrow Wilson Teacher