Madelyn Asperas,WWNFF Facilitator

Madelyn Asperas is currently at Woodland Middle School in East Meadow, New York where she teaches earth and physical sciences. She has been at East Meadow for 20+ years and is certified in Biology, Earth Science, Health, and Physical Science. Madelyn also serves as a science instructor for teacher professional update studies at the East Meadow Teacher Center. Some of the awards and grants that Madelyn has received include those from the New York State PTA, NASA, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Learn and Serve America, and Newsday FutureCorps. Madelyn has also been selected to work at Brookhaven Labs in the Medical Department. Recently, her student, Frieda Shmuel, was awarded national winner status in the Young Naturalists Awards, endorsed and sponsored by the Museum of Natural History. Three other students of hers were finalists. Madelyn looks forward to working with Woodrow this summer in the Commuter Course Institute for teachers at AMNH and Pace University. Back to Top

 

Dr. Charlene F. Blando-Hoegler, Pace Faculty

Dr. Hoegler has been with the Biology Department of Pace University since 1974. Her research interests include cardiovascular dynamics and environmental toxicology. She has mentored student "Science Day" posters on these topics.Dr. Hoegler is involved with the organization of the Dyson College Annual Science Day event which encourages high school and college research projects. She heads the coordinating committee for the Dyson Bioethics forums;works with the team organizing Environmental University Day for high schoolers and schedules the Sigma Xi scholarly lecture series each semester. She is also honored to be part of the Pace AMNH team teaching the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship sponsored Biodiversity Institute. Back to Top

 

Abelardo Correa, WWNF Facilitator

Abelardo Correa, to be posted. Back to Top

 

Robert Chapman, Pace Faculty

Robert Chapman (US citizen, English) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and University Coordinator of the Environmental Studies Program at Pace University, NY, where he teaches courses in philosophy and environmental studies. He is also the Edward J. Mortola Scholar in Philosophy. Professor Chapman received his B.A. from College of New Rochelle and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. He was Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center for Ethical Research in 1991where he presented work on environmental ethics. He has lectured at the American Museum of Natural History on ethics and bio-diversity. For the past few years Professor Chapman has been teaching Environmental Ethics, Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and various interdisciplinary courses in the Environmental Studies program. Professor Chapman has published numerous articles and given presentations on Environmental Philosophy. Recent publications include: "Settling Westchester: the value of place" Capitalism Nature Socialism September 1999; "No Room at the Inn or Why Population Problems are not All Economic," Population and Environment, September 1999; "The Role of Natural Law in the Greening of Philosophy," Vera Lex, vol. 15, winter 1999, "Immigration and Environment: Settling the Moral Boundaries," Environmental Values, vol. 9, no. 2 May 2000, 189-209, "Sustainable Waters and a New Grammar of Earthly Compassion: an impressionistic report on/'The Columbia River Watershed-A Reflection in Preparation for a Pastoral Letter'/" (Forthcoming summer 2001) International Journal of Water. Professor Chapman is Chair of the Environmental Studies Committee and also serves on the Dyson College Curriculum Committee and is editor of Vera Lex-Journal of the International Natural Law Society. His outside affiliations include American Philosophical Association, American Catholic Philosophical Association, International Society of Ecological Economics, International Society of Environmental Ethics, and Teachers Environmental Education Project. Back to Top

 

Tom Gorrell, Pace Faculty

Tom Gorrell teaches at Pace University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. The courses include: The Biological World, Human Biology and Disease, Science of Food Production and Nutrition, Anatomy and Physiology, Our Living Planet. He obtained his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1978, and B.Sc. from Purdue University in 1972. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and theAmerican Society for Microbiology. His research interests include studies of microbes in the environment along with molecular and biochemical characterization of parasitic protozoa. His Recent publications include :Anderson, O.R., Gorrell, T.E., Bergen, A., Kruzansky, R. and Levandowsky, M. 2001 Naked Amoebas and Bacteria in an OIL-Impacted Salt marsh Community. Microbial Ecology (in press).Bacchi, C.J., Goldberg, B., Rattendi, D., Gorrell, T.E., Spiess, A.J., and Sufrin, J.R. 1999. Metabolic effects of a methylthioadenosine phosphorylase substrate analog on African trypanosomes. Biochem. Pharmacol. 57: 89-96.Levandowsky, M.L., and Gorrell, T.E. 1998. Physiological adaptations in protists. In N. Sperelakis, ed. Cell Physiology: A source book. Pp. 917-937. Academic Press, New York . Bergen, A., Levandowsky, M.L., Gorrell, T., and Alderson, C. 1996. Restoration of a heavily oiled saltmarsh using Spartina altertinaflorra seedlings and transplants: Effect on petroleum hydrocarbon levels and soil microflora. In. D.J. Calabrese, P.T. Kostecki, M. Bonazountas, eds., Contaminated Soils, Vol. I:33-45, Amherst Scientific Publishers, Amherst, MA. Back to Top

 

Mike Levandowsky, Pace Faculty

Mike Levandowsky, Education: B.A. (mathematics) Antioch College, OH 1961 M.A. (zoology) Columbia University, NY 1965 Ph.D. (biological sciences) Columbia University, NY 1970 M.S. (applied mathematics) New York University, NY 1973 Research: 1970-present, Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, Pace U. 1980, 1981 (summers) Visiting Scientist, Mathematics Dept., University of British Columbia1 1983, 1985, 1986 Visiting Scientist, Sonderforschungsbereich (Applied Mathematics), Heidelberg University Field Studies: Bermuda Biological Station Shoals Marine Lab, NH Bellairs Laboratory, Barbados,WI Kenya Trypanosomiasis Institute, Kenya Igloolik Arctic Station, NWT, Canada Churchill Northern Studies Institute, Manitoba Professional Society Memberships: American Association for the Advancement of Science New York Academy of Sciences American Society for Microbiology Society for Protozoologists Phycological Society of America American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers Internation Society for Ecological Economics Teaching: Adjunct Professor, Biology & Chemistry, Pace University, NY Adjunct Associate Professor, Microbiology, NYU Dental School Faculty member, School of Visual Arts, NY Other Activities: Editorial Board, J. Eukaryotic Microbiology, 1999-2001 Editorial Advisor, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1979-95 Convenor, Northeast Algal Symposium, 1992 Distinguished Lecturer, Northeast Algal Society 1986 Board of Directors, The River Project, 1988-Present American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers Key Note Speaker, meeting of the Brazilian Society of Protozoologists, Caxambu, Brazil 1992 Back to Top

 

Maritza Macdonald, Museum Faculty

Maritza Macdonald, to be posted. Back to Top

 

Bill Schiller, Museum Faculty

William Schiller speaks for the wild flowers, trees, and other plants at the American Museum of Natural History. A native New Yorker, he had biophilia at a young age and apparently never got over it. His earliest childhood memories include numerous visits to the Museum, the New York Botanical Garden, city parks, and libraries. These experiences undoubtedly had a formative impact. After graduating cum laude from City College with a major in biology, he took the position of Lecturer in Botany in the newly formed Adult Education Division. He was immediately drawn into the AMNH/CCNY College Courses for Teachers program, and into formulating and implementing innovative programs that included adult outdoor education in botany, collaborating with the lecturers in zoology and geology on this. Gallery talk, slide talk, and guest lecturer programs in botany were set up. Accessible, tour quality natural areas with desirable facilities (a rare combination) were continuously sought out and complex itineraries plotted. A botanical color slide collection was established, and the herbarium improved. Much field work with this focus ensued both locally and throughout North America. The popular Spring and Fall Field Walks in Botany quickly emerged alongside Farida Wiley's Natural Science for the Layman field trips and eventually continued alone. William Schiller also assisted in setting up the itinerary for the first Natural Science Weekend Bus Trip, and was co-leader. This was followed by participation as botanist in a series of new week-long Museum bus tours to selected natural areas in the Northeast. He also initiated and participated in Museum-funded Alaskan field work, some of which helped in setting up the first Discovery Tours. An aim in all this has been to develop programs that might help to raise public science literacy in the area of forests, ecology, plant evolution and biodiversity, to build in the context of shared enjoyable experiences an appreciation of how nature works, and a sense of responsible stewardship. For many years William Schiller felt rather alone in some of this, so it is satisfying to now have strong affirmation in the underlying messages of the new halls and centers. In-house, past field work continues to inform and inspire the on going educational effort. Back to Top

 

John Sharkey,Pace Faculty

John Sharkey, to be posted. Back to Top

 

Nigel Yarlett,Pace Faculty

Nigel Yarlett is Professor of Biochemistry in Haskins Laboratories and Department of Chemistry and Physical Sciences at Pace University. He has a B.Sc(Hons) Microbiology from University College Cardiff, Wales and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University College Cardiff, Wales & Hannah Research Inst., Scotland, U.K. He has taught courses in General Biology and Immunology. He now teaches Courses in Biochemistry and Chemistry . His professional activities include serving as Associate Editor "Microbiology", and as a member of the Editorial Board "J. Eukaryotic Microbiology." His research concerns the role of polyamine metabolism in the survival and pathogenicity of several parasitic protozoa including Cryptosporidium parvum., Trichomonas vaginalis and Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Other ongoing research projects include a study of the energy metabolism in Hexamita inflata and a study of hydrogenase activity in anaerobic microorganisms. His most recent undergraduate students include Magdala Beauvil and Shaneeza Aziz. His recent publications include:Yarlett, N., Martinez, M.P., Goldberg, B., Kramer, D.L. and Porter, C.W. Dependence of Trichomonas vaginalis upon polyamine backconversion. Microbiology (2000) 146, 2715-2722. Waters, W.R., Frydman, B., Marton, L.J., Valasinas, A., Reddy, V.K., Harp, J.A., Wannemuehler, M.J. and Yarlett, N. [1N,12N]Bis(ethyl)-cis-6,7-dehydrospermine: a new drug for treatment and prevention of Cryptosporidium parvum infection of mice deficient in T-cell receptor alpha. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2000) 44, 2891-2894.. Goldberg, B., Rattendi, D., Lloyd, D., Yarlett, N. and Bacchi, C.J. Kinetics of methionine transport and metabolism by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (2000) 377, 49-57. Back to Top